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Yoga instructor and creator of the Yoga for Parenting workshops, ALISON ROGERS, and co-author Erin White have a combined 5 kids and over 20 years of "good enough" mother experience. Rogers trained as a Kripalu Yoga instructor at Kripalu Center for Yoga and earned a masters degree in counseling psychology from Harvard and a doctoral degree in Cross-Cultural Child Development from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After more than thirty years of clinical work as a therapist and educator, she shifted her focus to create The Yoga of Parenting workshops, a practice and philosophy that integrates principles from cutting edge western psychology with mindful yoga to help parents as they practice caring for their children with confidence, authenticity, and pleasure. ERIN WHITE received her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, including several anthologies: The Bitch is Back, the sequel to The Bitch in the House (ed. Cathi Hanauer, William Morrow, 2016); Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers (ed. Kate Hopper, Viva Press, 2012) and Oh Baby, True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Labor and Love (eds. Alice Bradley and Lee Gutkind, In Fact Press, 2015). |
