Podcast: “The Self-Care/Cultivation Element: On Bends & Needles (Yoga + Acupuncture): The Official Podcast of Phoenix Moon Acupuncture & Apothecary”

Click here to listen to the dynamic and informative dialog between Wendy and her acupuncture colleague Crystal N. Cliff, L.Ac., Dipl.OM, MAOM, CKTP, as they discuss the healing aspects of acupuncture and yoga. They detail out the internal connection of ourselves through the practice of yoga and the 8 Pillars of Yogic Tradition. Whether on […]

The Nature of Pain

By: Wendy Swanson Some of you may know that I was in a small plane crash in December 2007. As we were crashing I braced myself, trying desperately to “put on the brakes”. Obviously I lived to tell the tale and I was left with some pretty profound right side low back and hip pain […]

Story of Be Yoga (written by Charlotte Magazine)

PHOTO BY HALLIE HOFFMAN For the full article, visit: http://www.charlottemagazine.com/How-It-All-Came-To-Be/ The story of a popular Dilworth yoga studio, its owner and how it came to Be IT’S FAIR to say this story begins 400 feet in the air. On the day after Christmas in 2007, Wendy Swanson and her husband, Andrew, were flying from Sarasota, Florida, […]

How Be Yoga Came to Be

by Wendy Swanson Around 1999 or so I knew in the deepest parts of my soul that I was a healer and that someday I wanted to have a wellness center and yoga studio. I was 29 years old, single, living in Northampton, MA and working for a small manufacturing company as a regional sales […]

I have always wanted to save the world

by Wendy Swanson I have always wanted to save the world. When I was in elementary school I befriended every odd girl out partly because I too felt like the odd girl out and partly because I could not stand any injustice or seeing someone else suffer. I grew up in a middle class suburban […]

Find Your Soul In Yoga

by Wendy Swanson In yoga we peel back the layers so that our authentic self can emerge. We build strength in our bodies so that we may have the fortitude to ride the waves, the ability to stay upright and the ability to fall off the surf board of life and still get back up. […]