This is an interview with Molly Lannon Kenny, founder and director of the Samarya Center. Molly developed Integrated Movement Therapy, an innovative approach for students of all ages with exceptional challenges. Molly credits her "service" endeavors to the original value system in which she was raised -- "that...

This interview is part of a series devoted to interviews with several health, yoga, and spiritual educators who will be presenting at the second annual Yoga Service Conference hosted by the Omega Institute and the Yoga Service Council June 7-9, 2013. Anyone interested in working to create strong,...

This interview is part of a series devoted to interviews with several health, yoga, and spiritual educators who are presenting at the 2nd Annual Yoga Service Conference, hosted by the Omega Institute and the Yoga Service Council June 7-9, 2013. Anyone interested in working to create strong, engaged, and resilient...

This interview is part of a series devoted to interviews with several health, yoga, and spiritual educators presenting at the 2nd Annual Yoga Service Conference, hosted by the Omega Institute and the Yoga Service Council June 7-9, 2013. Anyone interested in working to create strong, engaged, and resilient communities is...

This interview is part of a special series that will include interviews with several health, yoga, and spiritual educators who are presenting at the 2nd Annual Yoga Service Conference hosted by the Omega Institute and the Yoga Service Council June 7-9, 2013. Anyone interested in working...

This interview is part of a series devoted to interviews with several health, yoga, and spiritual educators presenting at the second annual Yoga Service Conference hosted by the Omega Institute and the Yoga Service Council June 7-9, 2013. Anyone interested in working to create strong, engaged,...

This is an interview with MaryAnne Hagglund, who has taught yoga at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women (VCCW) in Goochland, Virginia for the past three years. VCCW is a minimum security prison. MaryAnne said it "took me a long time to get into VCCW, and a lot...

This is an interview with Peg Oliveira, who has taught yoga for years in schools, detention centers, preschools, after-school programs and inpatient and outpatient mental health centers for youth and adults in and around New Haven, Conn. In 2011, an after-school program director asked her to offer free classes to...

This is an interview with Traci Lundstrom, who began learning yoga while serving time in the Boulder, Colorado, county jail the fall of 2009. This is where her yoga service career started; as she incorporated yoga into her daily exercise routine, other women in the jail approached her to learn...

This is an interview with John Morgan, an Army veteran in recovery from alcohol abuse. He graduated from Samadhi Yoga Studio in Manchester, Conn. in 2010 with a 200-hour RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) certification in Hatha Yoga and wanted to work with veterans and people with substance abuse. John's yoga...

This is an interview with Ron G. Self, founder of Veterans Healing Veterans from the Inside Out (VHV-FTIO), a program he started at San Quentin State Prison in 2012 specifically to address psychological, emotional and ethical issues of veterans related to their active duty in the military, and to explore...

This is an interview with Tommy Rosen, now celebrating his 21st year of recovery from acute drug addiction. Between 1991 and 2003, Tommy practiced yoga on and off. Then life circumstances led him to Kundalini Yoga master Guru Prem. He apprenticed with Guru Prem for five years, learned...

This is an interview with Michelle Mitchell, who became passionate about yoga after her first class t12 years ago while in graduate school. She is the co-founder with Ellie Burke of YoKid, a non-profit yoga organization helping children from all socioeconomic backgrounds foster self-awareness. She's spent the past...

This is an interview with Ann Richardson, who began teaching yoga to active-duty service members prior to 9/11 at all of the major bases in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia Beach, Va. Most of her students were strong and able; occasionally, she worked with students who had injuries. She...

This is an interview with Jacoby Ballard, who began teaching yoga in 2000, and has been teaching Queer and Trans Yoga and Yoga for all Genders since 2006 at both the Third Root Community Health Center and the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center...

This is an interview with Kyczy Hawk, who started teaching yoga at treatment centers in the Bay area of San Francisco in 2008. She became an Art of Yoga volunteer in 2009, and a staff member from 2010 through early 2012. Since 2010 she has been a

As defense spending cuts limit vital benefits for veterans and our country increasingly faces the issue of veteran homelessness, we offer this interview with Mark Francis-Mullen, who became a certified yoga teacher and taught yoga at the Denver Veterans Administration Regional Medical Center while homeless. "The yoga classes...

This is an interview with Christy Burnette, founder and Executive Director of Conscious Community Yoga Association, Inc. ("CCYoga"). CCYoga was established as an Arizona non-profit corporation in 2011 in order to be a vehicle for yoga teachers to provide volunteer teaching. Christy provides training that prepares volunteer teachers...

This is an interview with Lynda Ferrara, and it didn't happen over night. So much was going on in her personal life: a recovering addict herself, addiction continues to affect her family today just as it has for many generations. Both her parents were alcoholics. Her father died from the...

This is an interview with Kimberly Moon, who after a decade of human services work and practicing yoga began to merge these in the clinical work she was doing with at-risk youth in a residential treatment center in Massachusetts. She then decided to tackle the 200-hour yoga teacher training at...