Join Mala for Vets and Veterans Yoga Project for five days of guided meditation designed to help you slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with peace. Each 15-minute practice invites you to ground your body, calm your mind, and return home to yourself.
Stillness Season
Stillness Season Day 1
Coming Home To Self
Monique Evans, LCSW, RYT, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher with over fifteen years of experience supporting veterans and their families. She offers gentle, mindfulness-based practices that help reduce stress and foster resilience. Monique values creating a steady, welcoming space where each person can simply breathe and be themselves.
Stillness Season Day 2
Being Light Being
Brian Garrison (BrianG) is a grateful being working at the intersections of addiction recovery, yogic realization, and trauma resilience. An addiction recovery expert, yogic student and practitioner, and trauma resilience builder, Brian is on a quest to end self-imposed suffering in his life and in the lives of others. Brian holds certifications as an eRYT-500+ Yoga Teacher and YACEP, as a Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Spaceholder, and as a Recovery 2.0 Yoga-informed Recovery Coach.
Stillness Season Day 3
Balance Body Scan
Mare Wilk - VYP yoga and meditation guide. Mare is a 22-year retired squid, with DD/DDG sea tours and Army combat tours; a Navy vet. Her service dog, Snyper, is a Great Pyr-mix. Her kitten, Whiskey, is a camera-demanding ninja. I began exploring yoga in 2020 as a way to physically and mentally rebuild. Yoga/meditation communities highlighted new “whys” in my life.
Stillness Season Day 4
Rain Meditation
Isah K - is a disabled United States Army combat veteran with 25 years of experience. She is a disciplined Wellness Coach and Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor, whose passion for total wellness encourages others to practice healthy lifestyles. As a TBI survivor and chronic pain sufferer, she’s found that yoga and mindfulness meditation fill the gap between medical appointments and medication.
Stillness Season Day 5
Strength In Stillness
Jasmin McGee - Jasmin carries a deep belief that her purpose is being in service to Community whether as a trauma-informed Yoga guide or as a Death Doula. She works hard to offer Community a space to heal, expand, grow, grieve, and process all that encompasses being a living being in this lifetime. It is her hope to offer all a moment wherein they can find a measure of peace for themselves in mind, body, heart and spirit.
Veterans Yoga Project is on a mission to support recovery and resilience among our veterans, military families, and communities.
VYP envisions a future where all those affected by trauma have access to a full range of mind-body practices and programs, and is committed to providing these tools and training in Safer, Predictable, and Controlled environments (SPaCe).
VYP-trained yoga instructors and clinicians provide programs, resources, and connections, and teach over 100 free yoga classes each week
and nearly 5,000 classes nationwide. Join us and see what it feels like to live, thrive, and belong!