As a follow up to Gary's recent workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we'd like to introduce two American Viniyoga Institute-trained teachers and therapists in the area. We're proud of our graduates and would love for you to have the opportunity to practice with these gifted professionals.  ..

by Stephanie Harding

At the end of October, with Hurricane Sandy threatening the northeast, I returned to New York from Yoga Therapist training in sunny California. I had to jump right in to prepare for the storm – clearing the gutters and the basement, taking any potential projectiles inside, filling buckets and bottles with water. When the storm hit, we immediately lost power. I tried to concentrate on a candle-lit game of Scrabble with my family as we listened to the howling wind, the creaking house, and yard debris slamming into the windows. In the end, we were lucky – we were without power, internet or phone for more than a week, but many of my neighbors sustained damage to trees and houses. Two young boys in the next town were killed by a falling tree; many others, especially those who live along the ocean shore, lost loved ones to falling trees and storm surges. So many people are now homeless. ..

For Mirka Scalco Kraftsow, the Heart-Mind Retreats that she conducts alongside Gary Kraftsow “are for anyone interested in diving deeper into the inner landscape of one’s Self with the support of the yogic teachings and the tools of tantric yoga.” When we realize the gift of the spiritual path of yoga, she says, we can use these well-tested tools to “transform…from a life of separation to an integrated, full life of wholeness.” And this path is available to everyone.  ..

As a follow up to Gary's recent workshop in Portland, Oregon, we'd like to introduce two American Viniyoga Institute-trained teachers and therapists in the area. We're proud of our graduates and would love for you to have the opportunity to practice with these gifted professionals.  ..

by Stephani Sutherland

As a practicing psychiatrist for over 25 years, Marilyn Granger, MD, knows something about the inner workings of the brain. But unlike most psychiatrists, Marilyn is also training to become a certified Yoga Therapist with AVI. In an upcoming workshop co-presented with Mirka Scalco-Kraftsow in Sebastopol, CA, Marilyn will lay out some of the ways that Yoga and particularly Viniyoga can promote neuroplasticity—that is, how it changes your brain.  ..

In this video Gary and Mirka discuss how the Heart - Mind connection relates to Tantric practice. If you don’t know much about Tantra or if you’re curious to learn more, this video is for you. Learn how Tantric practices can deepen your own practice, making it even more intimate, powerful and authentic to who you are. Who knows, you may even be inspired to sign up for the Heart-Mind Retreat starting November 7. ..

As a follow up to Gary's recent workshops at the San Diego Yoga Journal Conference, we'd like to introduce six American Viniyoga Institute-trained teachers and therapists in the area. We're proud of our graduates and would love for you to have the opportunity to practice with these gifted professionals. ..

by Gary Kraftsow

Traditional Yoga is very different than the modern incarnation of Yoga in the west; so too traditional Tantra very different than the modern incarnation of Tantra in the west. The purpose of this reflection is to make known some of these differences.  ..

As a follow up to Gary's recent workshop in Asheville NC, we'd like to introduce five American Viniyoga Institute-trained teachers and therapists in the area. We're proud of our graduates and would love for you to have the opportunity to practice with these gifted professionals. ..