On the Road to Durham
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This week was a bittersweet trip to Durham from Raleigh. It was the final class for 2026. This has been a very successful six months of enhancing community wellbeing with outdoor yoga. We averaged 59 students per class! The teacher team of Karla Vallecillo and Shakira...
On the Road to Fayetteville
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What do you do when one of your newer programs doubles in attendance in a month? Visit it, of course! I recently visited the Beyond Blue Neighborhood Center in Fayetteville while teacher Audri Burgos was leading a chair yoga class. When I arrived, the friendly...
On the Road to Raleigh’s Foster Grandparents
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By: Howie Shareff Once a year for the last five years, I have the privilege and pleasure to teach chair yoga to Raleigh’s Foster Grandparents. Formally called Raleigh’s AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program, they pair local adults aged 55 and older...
More Than a Yoga Class: Building Community at AMM
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By: Amma Fandiño For the past three years, I’ve had the privilege of working with You Call This Yoga (YCTY) and teaching yoga at Alliance Medical Ministry (AMM) through the partnership between these two organizations. What began as a weekly yoga class has become one...
On the Road
On the Road I was introduced to the term Gemba Walk (management walking and engaging with their team) in the near past and decided that it was time for me to literally walk the walk. That meant getting in the car and driving to our locations across North Carolina to...
Yoga with Meals On Wheels at Pine Acres
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A Community of Wellness at Pine Acres Yoga at Pine Acres Community Center is about community and celebrating what our bodies can do at every age. A Journey That Began with My Mother I began teaching chair yoga as a way to help my 87-year-old mother and her neighbors...
The YCTY Teacher Tango: A Dance for the Community
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The teachers in Wake County support each other in many ways, one interesting one being the “Teacher Tango,” which creative minds have devised. Wake County is a large county. YCTY offers classes across the county (east/Fuquay Varina, west/Apex, north/Wake Forest,...
Yoga at Central Prison and Beyond: A Teacher’s Journey
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The journey of a yoga teacher is often filled with diverse experiences, growth, and a deep sense of connection. Over the past six years, my work with You Call This Yoga (YCTY) has been transformative, for my evolution as a teacher. YCTY has allowed me to explore...
Cultivating Gratitude for Greater Resilience and More
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By JJ Gormley, MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT, CN Gratitude is a transformative quality that shifts perspective, enhances well-being, and fosters resilience. It is more than saying thank you. It is a way of seeing the world through a different lens. By practicing gratitude, we...
Finding My Voice in Yoga
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Tamara Y. Jeffries It is better to follow your own dharma, however imperfectly, than to assume the dharma of another, however successfully. –Bhagavad Gita 3.35 I love the yoga community that has grown up around the Sharing, Accessible, Free flowing, Energy (S.A.F.E)...