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Integrating Mind and Body Practices into the Health Care System

By Jill Satterfield on May 20, 2013 in Blog, Interviews, News & Media, Press

Yoga: Integrating Mind and Body Practices Into the Health-Care System – an Interview with Jill Satterfield Posted: 05/20/2013 5:36 pm THE HUFFINGTON POST This interview is part of a series devoted to interviews with several health, yoga, and spiritual educators who will be presenting at the second annual Yoga Service Conference hosted by the Omega [...]

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Feeling blessed and honored to be your student and to have you as a guide as I grow into my own.

Anonymous

In her teaching, Jill Satterfield manages to make subtle and complex concepts accessible while also providing clear, practical instruction for each student to seek his or her own experiential insight. Studying with Jill, I have been struck by her deep well of wisdom, kindness, and compassion as well as her special ability to help me locate those same resources inside myself.

Kathy Lawson, MPH

The more I learn about yoga the more I appreciate you...even more..

Nancy Mildrum

Jill is remarkably different from other yoga teachers. She is a teacher on a higher plane. Her training, her meditation practice, her personal history, her own special “being” - whatever it is, a yoga class with her will be the best yoga class you ever had. So gentle and so powerful at the same time. She is meant to teach and has an exquisite gift for it. She has no agenda except to guide you where you were meant to go, and, under her direction and understanding, it’s also where you can go. She’s very smart, very warm, and very funny and she is at peace with the practice and you will be too. This is yoga from the heart - just the way it was meant to be.

Linda Patton

Jill Satterfield is one of the most intuitively knowledgeable teachers I know. She combines science and spirituality, seen and unseen, in ways that are practical and accessible. Having Jill teach my patients meditation and yoga has been an incredible support in their healing. I can't recommend her highly enough.

Mark Hyman, MD

Jill is my teacher. I came to her in my power flow yoga days in New York City and after one class I knew that I had so much more to learn. In one hour we would explore only a few postures, but the depths that we explored and the layers that she helped us to reveal within ourselves...those lessons still arise within me, my teachings, and continue to ripple on to students that I teach all over the world. She helped me to know yoga beyond asana and move more deeply into meditation as an element within each moment of my daily living. I bow deeply to my teacher, Jill.

Twee Merrigan

I liked that very much. As always, I thought of you as you are the one who really introduced me to Buddhism and softened the way I look at the world and I am very very grateful for that.

Christina

I started working with Jill at around the same time as I was diagnosed with breast cancer and experiencing a great deal of anxiety. Her method of teaching is gentle, calming and healing. Post mastectomy she worked sensitively with gentle yoga poses, meditation and healing visualizations. Our sessions were and remain invaluable during the recovery process. Most importantly her method of teaching provides tools for life, self awareness and healthy living and continues to provide the bedrock for my practice today.

Sophia

Vajra is a sanskrit word that means indestructible...our true nature is indestructible. We practice getting to know our true nature that resides within and also with out the (impermanent) form of the body.

Your words are pretty awesome, and I think I've already told you this but you should know it again: your teaching, your guidance, your instruction back there at Karme Choling completely, absolutely changed my life for the good. You were my very first yoga teacher - my first yoga class ever was with you. You were the perfect guide into this amazing, transformative practice. I hope this writing doesn't read like goopy, syrupy crap. But the yoga practice, not just the asanas, is so dear to me now, so central to my life, it affects everything I do and say and how I behave in this confusing world. And you were the initial inspiration, you!

Shane

"Is Yoga only for the body and Buddhism only for the mind? Contributors include some of the most prominent contemporary teachers of both Buddhism and Yoga, among them Ajahn Amaro Bhikkhu, Chip Hartranft, Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Mu Soeng, Eido Tai Shimano Roshi, Jill Satterfield, and Sarah Powers".

You have such a refreshing perspective to the practice that isn't laced with self-interest of the 'Barbie doll packaging' that I've seen in studios and certain schools. The way you present the practice is so accessible and free/open. In that you provide incredible guidelines and methodology that aren't restrictive.

Tanya Diallo Welsh

Jill is the best kind of teacher. Someone that teaches from her own deep experience and does so in an incredibly personal way. She shares herself completely, so that you can connect, learn, and experience your own change. Her teaching corrected the course of my life and helped me become a better person.

Jason Kessler

I am doing great; my work at the hospital has been very enriching. I love working with people who are suffering from illness and pain (I know that might sound strange) but it is real-er than real as both the patients (and I) negotiate fear, anger, and confusion. Working with the patients in the medical setting points me towards what is truly useful in yoga/ somatic integration/ meditation/communication - I find I am paring things down into their simpler, clearer, and cleaner expressions both in action and in words, striving to make the teachings accessible to people of all backgrounds and belief systems. It has been such a gift. In that, I want to thank you for your teaching, guidance and friendship - there isn't a day that passes that I don't think of you, hear your voice in my head, wish you well and feel a deep gratitude for your presence in my life.

Diana

Jill is that rare teacher who speaks to the intuition as well as the intellect, activating the capacity for healing and realization in her students. Both practical and profound, she bridges yoga and mindfulness through her way of being as well as her clear articulation of the mind-body connection.

Anna Douglas

I have worked with Jill personally and my patients have used her recorded material. Jill’s compelling voice, her spirituality, sense of humor and breadth of body knowledge provide for easeful, effective learning for beginners as well as the opportunity for deepening practice for the experienced.

Gail King

Jill’s retreats are more than teacher training they reform you in a way that changes every aspect of your life and all of your relationships.

Nicole Darnell

I have taken yoga classes off and on for 30 years; working with Jill has been an epiphany. She has helped me experience the subtleties of poses, and encouraged me to achieve my personal best. Jill is both inspiring and fun.

Julie

Jill's teaching is infused with creativity, curiosity and play. Her unique style, her warmth and humor have opened me up to explore my body, heart, and mind with an air of gentleness and vulnerability that I had not experienced before. In her workshops I find myself able to set aside usual inner expectations, and open myself enough to experience the possibility of something new. The practices I have learned through Jill have changed my inner experience of my life. My anxiety has lessened dramatically, I can create a pause when life gets chaotic, and I can bring myself back in to my body, almost anytime, anywhere.

Britta Plug

Jill Satterfield is an unusually brilliant yoga teacher. We were lucky enough to be taught by her in Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 2012. My husband and two friends had never done yoga before, but under Jill's expert guidance, they all realized the benefits, plus the enjoyment, of the practice. Jill is able to communicate not just the best way to perform the movements from a physical point of view, but also able to connect this up to the breathe and the spiritual aspects of yoga. For myself, I felt able to progress enormously with Jill and only wish that we were all in the same place more often. I have practiced yoga sporadically over a number of years and have had a variety of teachers - Jill Satterfield is easily the best.

Rosie Boycott

Event: Riding the Waves: Mind Body Tools for Managing Cravings with Jill + Jen Talley PhD