Yesterday I listened to a powerful episode of Speaking of Faith called “Yoga:  Meditation in Action.”  Host Krista Tippett interviewed Seane Corn (in photo at left), an internationally renowned yoga teacher based in the Los Angeles area.

Tippett and Corn discussed, among other things, how yoga can be a helpful tool for emotional and spiritual development.

I was so impressed with and inspired by Corn’s heart and loving spirit.  She clearly has done a lot of internal work, and she talks about it very articulately.

Her story is fascinating.  She was sexually abused when she was a young girl; she grew up in a blue collar family; she never went to college; she moved to New York City when she was seventeen and waited tables and partied hard; she struggled with OCD and at age nineteen realized it was interferring in her life; also at nineteen she took her first yoga class, and yoga helped her with her OCD and in many other ways; years later she moved to the Los Angeles area to train as a yoga teacher.

Corn is also an activist and works with sexually exploited children and those with HIV/AIDS.  She’s the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS and co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World.

Some things to check out:

+ Corn’s interview with Krista Tippett.

+ A video of Corn doing “body prayer”; a video of Corn talking about vinyasa flow yoga.

+ Tippett’s journal entry about her own recent journey with yoga and why it’s a new passion.

+ Corn’s website (which is beautiful):  www.seanecorn.com

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