Tale: Yoga for the Wounded Heart

Orphaned in her early teens and shuttled between foster homes, Tatiana Forero Puerta found herself in her early twenties in New York City, suffering from PTSD and OCD, anorexic, self-harming, and suicidal. She says yoga was the tool which healed her scars, opened her soul to forgiveness, and allowed her to reconcile herself with a past that had threatened to snuff out her light and her life. Tatiana is now a mama, writer, philosopher, and yoga teacher living in New York City. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she is a graduate of Stanford, NYU, and Columbia universities. She has taught philosophy and yoga for a decade, including her post as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and the City University of New York. A columnist for New York Spirit, Park Slope Reader, and Elephant Journal, Tatiana is a recipient of the 2017 Pushcart Prize for poetry and a finalist for Blueshift Journal’s prize for writers of color. Tatiana is also core faculty at Peaceful Generation Now, a NewYork-based mindfulness program focused on bringing mindfulness practices to educators and school administrators in the New York Tri-state area, with the hope of cultivating peaceful classrooms. In our conversation, we discuss the deeper philosophy and roots of yoga and its application through personal examples of how our practice has led us to greater insights & understandings. We share perspectives on the difference between doing yoga vs. doing so with the aim of using the practice of yoga as a light to increase our capacity for healing and recognizing our true potential. Stay tuned until the end of the episode to find out how to win a free copy of Tatiana’s book, Yoga for the Wounded Heart Winner to be announced Monday 4/8/19 at 8pm CT To contact Tatiana or attend a workshop near you, please visit her website:

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This episode was published on Apr 2, 2019.

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