Awake, Aware, Alive / Beryl Bender

Join Beryl and friends for a week of mindfulness practices. Develop greater awareness, resilience, and discipline. Find the joy in every moment – no matter what is going on. Discover your natural state of well-being and follow the path to a happy, healthy, and long life. All through the lens of classical yoga & vipassana meditation

Meet your Teacher

Beryl Bender is a philosopher, an animal and environmental activist (since l971), and the author of 4 books on yoga, including Power Yoga & Beyond Power Yoga. She began the study of the Eastern Wisdom traditions, esp classical yoga, in l971. In l974 she traveled to India for 6 months with her teacher Munishree Chitrabhana, a Jain monk, to study Jainism and meditation.

She has been teaching yoga and meditaton for over 50 years and and leading workshops all over North and Central America and Europe since the publication of her first book in l995. From l984 thru 2022, she was the director of 200 and 300 hour The Hard & The Soft Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training courses and has graduates worldwide. She currently teachs online courses in Yoga Sutra study, Upanishad study, and Vipassana meditation in the Theravada tradition and leads yoga retreats to Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, Greece, Guatemala, and Cuba. She is the director of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute, and co-founder and Board Director Emeritus of Give Back Yoga Foundation (2007).