spiritual care

I am training for my certification from the Interreligious Chaplaincy Program at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. The first of its kind, the GTU's ICP equips leaders to practice spiritual care among diverse populations and provides the skills to serve people from diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds in a wide variety of settings, situations and life stages. The program's requirements include courses in spiritual care, interreligious training, counseling, theology, ethics, and clinical pastoral education within a hospital. 

I see my vocation as a teacher of yoga asana (movement), meditation, and pranayama (therapeutic breathing) for populations one doesn’t generally see on the covers of yoga magazines: that is, the elderly; the disabled or differently abled; patients going through disease and consequent surgery and treatments; and folks dealing with different stages and kinds of dementia, including Alzheimer's. I am also drawn to teaching yoga to physicians, nurses, and other caregivers who need care and restoration; people in prison; the unhoused; and refugees.