Yoga Teachers

"The heart is a portal—that is to say, it's an opening with remarkable and infinite depth... When we bring attention to this area and actually...

Most folks can agree that a nice, deep meditative practice feels good. Yet not everyone realizes that those good feelings are backed by actual science...

Why does meditation feel so darned good? That flood of joy, love, and well-being washing over you during a nice long meditation sitting can be...

“Love has no opposite.” —The Upanishads At a time of year when love is celebrated widely, often with champagne and balloons and a flurry of...

For two decades, Senior iRest Trainer and Director of Australasia Programs Fuyuko Sawamura-Toyota has been on the path of yoga and non-dual wisdom. Yet it...

No matter where we are in our personal and spiritual growth—whether newbies or seasoned practitioners—it pays to return to the basic principles that have shaped...

All of us are touched by pain. The poet Mary Oliver writes, “nobody gets out of it, having to / swim through the fires to...

“You are fundamentally OK.” These reassuring words must appear a dozen or so places in the first two chapters of The Book of Rest: Stop...

For more than two decades, Joan Ruvinsky worked at the heart of the iRest family as a scholar and teacher . Prior to her passing...