Alison DeNicola

Based in New Preston, Connecticut, Alison DeNicola teaches yoga and meditation, leads retreats and writes. Over some twenty years she has trained in a wide spread of practices, from yoga, guided meditation and yoga nidra to hypnotherapy, shamanic and angelic energy work, chakra study, mudras and feather work, and she folds these into gentle, reflective classes that combine breath, posture, sound and deep rest. She also offers one-to-one energy sessions and coaching for people bringing a creative project to life.

Much of her writing takes the form of illustrated card decks with guidebooks, published by U.S. Games Systems and made with artists such as Sabina Espinet and David Scheirer. Among them are the Enchanted Wheel Oracle, Divine Feather Messenger and two sets on mudras, one for the energy body and one for the five elements. Through Blue Feather Retreats she takes small groups on journeys that mix yoga and meditation with local culture and ceremony, in places such as the Sacred Valley of Peru and Puglia in southern Italy. Closer to home she teaches workshops in the north-eastern United States, including a yoga and tarot weekend at Kripalu with the tarot author Sasha Graham, and she hosts the podcast Beyond the Cards.