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. Rooted in cross-cultural perennial wisdom, her work integrates millennia-evolved tried and true ancestral knowledge with modern insight to support self-realization and holistic thriving in a universal human experience era.
As a certified MindBody Centering therapy yoga teacher with a journalism degree, Inda has dedicated her life to an honest inquiry into the philosophies, practices, and techniques that foster thriving at all levels: individual, family, community, society, and the Earth.
With experience teaching and leading at various educational and cultural organizations, she has inspired thousands of students worldwide and has increased the visibility of important initiatives, earning her high praises.
Inda's treasured years working with a psychospiritual ecology and environmental education nonprofit organization deepened her commitment to healing the human disconnection and provided her invaluable opportunities to learn from many teachers, meet fascinating people dedicated to healing the human disconnection, and the chance to hone her skills as a facilitator of retreats, rituals, and community gatherings.
As the author of INDA Yoga and publications that she refers to as “courses of action for self-realization,” she leads a transformational Self cultivation school that foster thriving at every level—individual, family, community, society, and planet. Her work is dedicated to helping people access their innate deeper sense of purpose—their True Nature—to actualize their meaningful fulfilling life experiences here and now.
Inda has taught thousands of students of all ages from around the world.
Inda earned her university degree and postgraduate professional certifications from Ball State University, UCBerkeley, and Duke University, but more specific and relevant to her work with INDA Yoga:
Psychospiritual Education
Soulfully inspired, a series of serendipitous encounters gently steered Inda's life toward this path and away from others. And she feels honored to have studied and earned certifications in:
- MindBody Centering Yoga Therapy, Meditation, Breathwork, Mindfulness Coaching, Restorative Yoga, 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, healing music 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 was inspired to create 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.
As a highly sensitive soul and bilingual American Latina 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), Inda embraces and attracts a diverse student base, enriching her practice with varied perspectives and experiences. She currently resides in North Carolina.
