Great schools and training programs offer learning opportunities that go far beyond the syllabus. We asked some amazing folks from the community to share stories from their educational journey with us.
Lourdes Wiley

I hold a Master’s degree in Nursing, but my first nursing program led to an Associate in Science degree in Nursing. It was an incredibly difficult program in South Florida, and our clinical hours took place at a very high acuity medical center. We started with a class of 45 and 13 of us graduated together. We cried, laughed, intermittently talked each other out of not quitting, and said goodbye to the other aspects of our lives for 18 months. Read more>>
Daniela Kent

Learning yoga is a lifelong practice, it’s a process of unlearning and releasing habits and ways and thinking, speaking, and acting as it is about learning new techniques for moving, breathing, or meditating. Even though I have been teaching yoga in some capacity for over a decade, I am still and will always be a student of the practice. I am always learning from others. One lesson that I’ve learned through my study of yoga and particularly from listening to lectures of Swami Tattwamayananda of the Vedanta Society of San Fransisco is that while we are all striving to live our best lives, what “best” means is different for everyone. Best is subjective, not objective. Read more>>
Jesse Riley

My school and training experience started with an undergraduate degree going the pre-med route. As I was going through my classes, I felt compelled that I wanted to do something that moved a lot and the people that I worked with moved a lot too. Traditional medicine wasn’t exciting me as much but I was at a crossroads. I ended up going into a Masters of Sports Rehab and Exercise Science for grad school where I decided that I would decide between Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. Read more>>