“Meditation allows me to be less separate, less in conflict with others and myself,” says Stephen Uvalle, a yoga instructor at Boulder, CO’s Little Yoga Studio. At 50, with spiked brown hair, ear gauges and multiple tattoos, Uvalle is part street tough, part purveyor of loving-kindness.
“It’s allowed me to look at perceived social constructs of who I’m supposed to be as a man,” he continues. “I’m not supposed to be sensitive, I’m supposed to be aggressive…yet that doesn’t feel good in my body. Sitting in those moments of extreme anger, extreme rage—and confronting and facing the stillness that’s behind all of that—has really shifted my consciousness. And I learned that all by just sitting with myself.”

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