About the Author
Inda Luciano is a teacher of authentic yoga, a yoga that goes far beyond the physical postures. The yoga of body, mind, and spirit union and self-realization. She is a studious and teacher of perennial cross-cultural wisdom, dedicated to making complex philosophical, psychological, and spiritual concepts accessible—offering practical guides and practices that foster thriving at every level—individual, family, community, society, and planet. Her work is dedicated to helping people find a deeper sense of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in their lives. As the founder, author, and teacher of INDA Yoga, she leads a transformative inner-work school dedicated to the realization of True Nature and the actualization of our Best Lives.
Inda has served in teaching and management roles at several educational and cultural organizations, and has taught thousands of students from across the globe. She earned her university degree and postgraduate professional certifications from Ball State University, UCBerkeley, and Duke University.
Inda has taught thousands of students of all ages from around the world.
Relevant to her work with INDA Yoga:
Psychospiritual Education
Soulfully inspired, a series of serendipitous encounters gently steered Inda's life toward a direct path and away from others. And she feels honored to have studied and earned certifications in:
- MindBody Centering Yoga Therapy, Restorative Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness Coaching, and Yoga Teaching from Nina Werness Counselor, LCMHCA, MA, MEd, C-IAYT, ERYT500's accredited teaching certification program MindBody Centering Yoga.
- Children Yoga Teaching, developing and implementing curriculums that teach healthy lifestyle skills and encourage learning through yoga, creative movement, and play from ChildLight Education.
- Life Design, Heart Based Environmental Education, as well as Community Ceremonies, Rituals, and Retreat Facilitation from award-winning community leader, integrative life coach, and animistic psychotherapist Sarah Haggerty MA, LPC, WFR founder of The Natural Mystery School.
To compliment and add value to her practice, she has also studied and/or earned licensures and certifications in diverse modalities that include healthy lifestyle coaching, nutrition, somatic-informed pilates, natural and medical skin & touch therapies, and permaculture.
With Students of Life Design Retreat | Co-facilitated with Sarah Haggerty
Research & Experience
Inda has also researched the significance and been a part of facilitation teams of shamanic and other community ceremonies and rituals around the themes of ecotherapy, grief tending, rites of passage, seasonal transitions, healing plants, women circles, story telling circles, sharing circles, song circles, drum circles and other collective social bonding practices, as well as more intimate vision quests.
She feels honored to have been a part of facilitation teams and experienced first-hand the therapeutic and ritualistic wisdom imparted by elder community healers like:
Laurence Cole, a song elder and ritualist based in Port Townsend, Washington, who's life work has been to discover when, where, and how human beings have lived in respectful, sacred, equitable relationship with each other and the rest of Nature, and what arts, ethics, and practices enabled them to do so, to preserve that important heritage and impart those attitudes and behaviors on to the coming generations. His gorgeous community orchestrations truly are a delightful heart-felt experience.
Grief Tending Retreat With Laurence Cole
Joanna Macy Ph.D, author & teacher, is a scholar of systems thinking, deep ecology, and Buddhism. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with experience from six decades of activism. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and postmodern science. Joanna created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application called The Work That Reconnects. This work has helped countless thousands of people around the globe find solidarity and courage to take divine inspired action despite the paralyzing despair from the rapidly worsening social and ecological conditions.
The Work that Reconnects is a form of group work designed to foster the desire and ability to take part in the healing of our world. It is informed by Deep Ecology, systems thinking, Gaia theory, and spiritual traditions. This work highlights the interconnectedness of self-organizing systems and unlocks the power of mutual exchange. Central to the use of systems thinking in this work is the recognition that self-reflexive consciousness is a function of choice-making. Whatever the limitations of our life, we are still free to choose which version of reality – or story about our world – we value and want to serve. We can choose to align with business as usual (status quo), remain participants of the breakdown of living systems, or work toward the creation of a life-sustaining society.
The structure of the work follows a spiral sequence of four stages—gratitude, honoring our suffering, seeing with fresh eyes, and going forth—reflecting a natural process of psychological and spiritual growth, where each cycle deepens understanding, and the key transformative moment comes when we reframe our suffering (be it fear, grief, outrage or despair) to compassion rather than privatizing, repressing or pathologizing it. This process brings us back to life.
Inda feels honored to have been a part of the facilitation team and have experienced this work first hand facilitated by Work That Reconnects Network certified Valerie Silidker Co-Founder, Director & Trainer at Psychospiritual Institute and Beth Remmes of GIPL.
Work That Reconnects Retreat with Valerie Silidker & Beth Remmes
With Work That Reconnects Peers
Philosophy Conception
With that foundation, Inda created INDA Yoga, which is dedicated to an honest and unfettered inquiry into all practices, philosophies, techniques, and approaches that produce thriving in the individual, family, community, society, the planet, and beyond. This includes the contemplation of enduring spiritual wisdom from diverse cultures, together with the amazing knowledge gained from science and other truth-seeking endeavors.
Inda is an author of courses of action to help people align with their soul path and is open to working with individuals and groups across the world teaching and speaking about them as her time allows.
Inda, a highly sensitive soul, was born and raised in the West Indies, by the sea of the ancestral Taíno Caribbean island Borikén (renamed by European colonists "Puerto Rico" or "Rich Port" and USA territory since 1898), but currently resides in North Carolina. She is fully native and professionally bilingual and biliterate in Spanish and English and welcomes a diverse student base.
Inda, a highly sensitive soul, was born and raised in the West Indies, by the sea of the ancestral Taíno Caribbean island Borikén (renamed by European colonists "Puerto Rico" or "Rich Port" and USA territory since 1898), but currently resides in North Carolina. She is fully native and professionally bilingual and biliterate in Spanish and English and welcomes a diverse student base.
