TAOU TEACHERS

Our teachers are what make TAOU, TAOU. They challenge us, support us, make us laugh, ask us better questions, and remind us that there is always more to learn. Learn from them. Learn with them.

CO FOUNDER

CO FOUNDER

KAT MCCRORY

KATIE BOSCH

  • french + this practice

  • 1.women that run with the wolves and 2. the creative act 3. The Web That Has No Weaver 4. Meditations Marcus Aurelius

  • Have courage and be kind

  • To take time to respond vs. react

  • Anything by Mary Oliver, The Library At Mount Char, The Three Body Problem Trilogy, The Creative Act

  • Things happen in time <3

SARA GARRETT

MORGAN WHITEHEAD

JULIA STEWART

BECKY KRUSI

  • hearing some live music or taking a sunset walk with my doggie

  • how to sit with my uncomfortable feelings

  • a refreshed sense of love and empathy for themselves and others :)

  • Boxing

  • A ballerina

  • Be kind to yourself

NINA AVERY

KATY MCCORMACK

  • I am enough

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  • "Aham Prema" (I am divine love)

  • changing your mind is cool!!!!!!

  • SHANIA TWAIN

  • compassion for themselves and that sweet little buzz you get when you do something you love with other people who love it too...and FRIENDS! <3

MATT DOWDY

JO MURDOCK

JELENA GORDON

MAGGIE MAUCK

  • Everything! I hope to never stop learning. But on a personal level, I’m always relearning that I can do hard things. That I can go through difficulties and remain soft and kind despite despite despite. Also always learning how to step out of my comfort zone.

  • autobiography of a yogi by paramahansa yogananda, stories behind the poses by raj balkaran, the journey home by radhanath swami.

  • Art is a spiritual practice

  • Grabbing a cappuccino at Paix or online shopping

  • Animated Lizzie McGuire

  • Bad days are also part of a good and sexy life

  • all the many ways of seeing

  • A librarian/gymnast (combined)

  • πάντα ῥεῖ (everything flows)

  • Gardening / hanging with the chickens

  • Debate in Tibetan Buddhism And now is the time (170 ways to seize the moment)

  • Water bottle + little affirmations

  • Bagel from Chewy's OR Journal accessories from Merrymaker Fine Paper

  • Re-Learning everything prenatal now that I am pregnant

  • Snacks, gum, booty bands and a portable speaker.

  • Sleep

  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryū Suzuki

  • a candle

MARGE ALLEN

PRESTON SLAUGHTER

  • Tinkering with crystal bowls!

  • Be at home watching TV or plotting my next big brain-project if not out and about on my mat!

  • Clarity about something in their life, an idea, an inspiration, a nudging of their needle toward their next direction... if nothing else, leaving a deep sigh behind them.

  • James River dip under the Nickel Bridge!

  • How to let go of control…. Or more fun answer: mountain biking!

  • Homemade juice! My current go-to is orange, carrot, golden beet, and turmeric.

MILO PAEK

ALEXANDRA COOK

  • Learning how to lean in to love over and over again!

  • Crystal singing bowls, rain sticks, ocean drums, wind and shell chimes, Himalayan yak bells

  • Gayatri Mantra

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JORDAN REID

HOLLY ZAJUR

RACHEL HOLP

AARON LAZAR

JOY MARIE POLEFRONE

ANNA KUCERA

CLAIR NORMAN

HANNAH WELCH

  • After TAOU, every activity is pretty awesome - a long walk, or coffee / wine with a friend ranks right up there.

  • How beautiful and profound stillness is.

  • You are exactly where you should be, your body is brilliant, and my mother who has been gone nearly 30 years has never left me.

  • going to wayside spring!

  • not be able to get the speaker to work without help😭

  • a singer!

  • The balance between effort & ease (sthira and sukha)

  • A Wrinkle in Time, The Alchemist, We Need Your Art

  • I can do it, I will do it!

  • Josie from Josie and the Pussycat Dolls

  • Skip class for a martini

  • The three P’s: it’s not personal, no one or thing is perfect and nothing is permanent

  • painting

  • Lord of the Rings, Larson’s Calculus I-III

  • curiosity, practicality and self compassion

  • Janets brunch…of course!!

  • The Meaning if Your Life by Arthur Brooks, Untamed by Glennon Doyle

  • A teacher!!!

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  • Succumb to infectious laughter/giggles at myself and with others at unexpected moments (in class)

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; Light on Life by BKS Iyengar; Being Ram Dass

  • Teaching Notebook, Patchology Rosé Lip Mask, Palo Santo or Agerwood incense cones, an endless number of hair clips and pins and bands

BECKY AYDELOTTE

PARKER HEYFORD

LILY GOODMAN

JENSINA BURNSTEIN

  • giving myself grace

  • theme my classes around the chakra energy system!

  • "everything you seek you already are"

  • Learning what it means to create a life where work, rest, and play can coexist without guilt

  • Be in bed by 9 pm and proud of it

  • Comparison is the thief of joy

THEA MCCARTHY

MARY PAGE WATTS

  • Ways to best care for my little family.

  • Pre would be some nuts and banana, post would be a smoothie

  • We live in our heads so much of the day so I like to stop remind myself that my body is doing the best it can. So I honor my body for all it’s capable of each day.

  • Use every prop possible in my classes!

  • Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

  • You can do hard things!

ANDRE WILSON

MOHLER CARLSON

  • Ways to best care for my little family.

  • Pre would be some nuts and banana, post would be a smoothie

  • We live in our heads so much of the day so I like to stop remind myself that my body is doing the best it can. So I honor my body for all it’s capable of each day.

  • Taking walks with my dog Raider or playing Mahjongg with my besties

  • The TAO of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and The Shack by William P Young

  • Love love love, kind kind kind, peace peace peace, joy joy joy, namaste namaste namaste

  • A teacher, a writer, a performer

  • Self-compassion and inner awareness

  • I am my oldest, wisest self

  • Chewy’s bagel post Saturday morning Yang (rosemary salt preferably)

  • An E.R. Physician… I had a lot to learn about myself

  • Little Nickels nachos!!

LEARN FROM US. LEARN WITH US.

FOREST HILL
CARYTOWN