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keep your projections to yourself: encountering jung's shadow in group fitness
Maybe a yoga class is the last place you think you'll be running into what Jung called "the shadow." If you've taken a group fitness class in your life, you might think back and recall what you thought or felt about that instructor/teacher. Or you might think about how it seemed that others treated that person. Were they treated as a real person, or as an idealized version of what others think or feel they should be? It's likely that at least some of the class participants (i

Laura Beth Wenger
May 6, 20243 min read


resentment doesn’t mean you're a bad practitioner
One thing that we don’t speak about in the movement/wellness/healing arts world is resentment. It feels a little weird to even type that...

Laura Beth Wenger
May 31, 20223 min read


“can’t you just…”
Last week, one of my clients was telling me about her past experience with a yoga teacher. “She was young, thin, her body could do...

Laura Beth Wenger
Aug 17, 20212 min read


don't call it a workout
It’s Not Exercise, It’s Not a Workout, It’s Training (here’s why) When I talk about the kind of work that I do, or how I move my body,...

Laura Beth Wenger
Jun 30, 20213 min read
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