How do you make the world
more beautiful?
Amy Weintraub ERYT-500, MFA I teach calming, clearing practices not often taught in yoga classes, so practitioners know in moments of practice who they really are beneath mood and story. Those moments of clarity accumulate, growing the seeds of self-compassion and self-awareness, empowering people to manage their moods, and fostering the understanding that beneath every dark emotion, yoga provides a pathway to its opposite.
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Emilie Perz
Jaime Amor
Yoga instructor Los Angeles, Calif.
Creator of Cosmic Kids Yoga Henley-on-Thames, U.K.
By showing people that their bodies have a voice that needs to be listened to. I encourage my community to trust themselves and to push past preconceived limitations. My goal is to never outshine others but to help people channel their own unique light so that they can shine bright. With an open heart, I spread yoga as medicine.
I teach kids yoga on YouTube. Some days, as many as fifty thousand kids come on a Cosmic Kids yoga adventure with me. We use our bodies to tell fun stories. The kids get stronger and more confident without realizing, because they’re having fun. We’re making meditations too. I hope the kids I teach will become kind and peaceful adults.
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“There’s nothing more beautiful than sharing what I love with others.” —Essence
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Lisa J. Laird
Tarini Devi
Yoga instructor and DJ New York, N.Y.
Yoga teacher Bozeman, Mont.
Yoga teacher Sal, Cape Verde
There’s nothing more beautiful than sharing what I love with others. I embrace beauty daily, which is why I share music, dance, mantra, the breath, and yoga, whether teaching at Laughing Lotus or DJ-ing. The things I share help remind those I cross paths with how special and divine they are and how much beauty lies within them.
Yoga is a creative and healing power; I share yoga with my students for that reason. I am the coordinator for Big Sky Yoga Retreats’ Cowgirls vs. Cancer program, which offers healing through horses and yoga. Healing takes time, commitment, and support. I am proud to be able to create space for this to happen. Transformation through healing is beautiful.
By talking about things that matter—with my husband, family, friends, students, and my guru. I looked for and found one yoga teacher to whom I entrusted my life and from whom all the light of knowledge and warmth of love I can transmit in classes come. I’ve learned to stay aware of the suffering of each being.
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