Dionne C. Monsanto is not your average yoga teacher. She is a native New Yorker who left a successful financial services career twice to become a full-time yoga teacher. She has since taught thousands of yoga/dance classes internationally. Her life after financial services has taken her around the globe teaching, speaking and training. She has appeared on TV, radio, print ads and magazines. As a mental health advocate, public speaker, performer, yoga/dance teacher, and life coach she connects people to their joy and assists her clients in remaining true to themselves.
As a bestselling author and proud mother, she hopes to leave an example that her sons will follow to live happy, healthy lives and to make her deceased daughter proud. On any given day you will find her with a coffee cup or water bottle in her hand while on her way to or from, yoga, cooking, walking or coaching. She leads the way and challenges us to claim joy as our birthright and is the pied piper calling us to live life INjoy.
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Grief & Joy Weekly — Issue No. 15: A story about a bug in my eye… and the truth it revealed.
Published about 1 month ago • 4 min read
The Grief & Joy Weekly Issue No. 15 — April 15, 2026 Awareness: What’s Hiding in Plain Sight Hey Reader, OMG. I have so much to tell you about my first Vipassana. Ten days of complete silence with over forty strangers was unreal, surreal, and transformational in ways I’m still integrating. There were so many revelations, so many moments that cracked me open… but I can’t fit all of that into one letter. So today, I want to start with the moment that set everything in motion. The moment that...
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