SWEAT Power Yoga, May 17-18, 2025
QUOTES:
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “If you take care of the exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “You cannot have yoga without viyoga.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “If you ask one part of your body to stabilize, you permit other parts of your body to mobilize”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “Yoga isn’t about doing asana, it’s about undoing what’s in the way of the asana.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “There is no wrong answer to an inquiry.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “The benefit of learning a new breathing technique is unlearning your old way of breathing.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “You make the space and the universe fills it.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “Our job is not to focus on what has gone wrong in a person’s body. Our job as yoga educators is to focus on what is still going right.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “Healing is different from fixing or curing. Sometimes healing involves changing your relationship to what has gone wrong.”
WATCH/LISTEN:
- Prana chant video. Corrected Prana Apana Nyasa illustration.
- The Warrior Series: Upwardly Mobile video and article on Yoga Journal website
- Tom Myers’ Deep Front Line dissection video
- Gil Hedley’s courses and video clips
- Freeing the Breath: Health, Relaxation, and Clarity Through Better Breathing with Leslie Kaminoff
- YouTube channels: free shorts from YogaAnatomy.net online courses and Leslie’s Breathing Project Q&A series. Got a yoga or anatomy question you’d like Leslie to address? Send it to questions@yogaanatomy.org.
- Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing
- Yoga Alliance’s Yoga Talks with Leslie Kaminoff on Regulation
- Jill Miller – “Hip Replacement Surgery” on J. Brown’s podcast
- The Man Who Lost His Body, documentary about proprioception
RECOMMENDED READING:
- ANATOMY:
- Yoga Anatomy, 3rd edition
- Yoga Journal article: Anatomy 101: Understanding Your Tailbone by Amy Matthews and Leslie Kaminoff PLUS: the missing illustration
- More Leslie Kaminoff content on Yoga Journal
- Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W. Myers
- Your Body, Your Yoga and Your Spine, Your Yoga: Developing stability and mobility for your spine by Bernie Clark
- HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY / PHILOSOPHY:
- Sri T. Krishnamacharya’s history of classical alignment in the Yoga Makaranda, part I (PDF) and Yoga Makaranda, part II (PDF)
- 100 Years of Beatitude – T. Krishnamacharya’s Centennary (low-resolution VHS transfer)
- Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice by T.K.V.Desikachar
- Claude Marechal’s article describing some of the teaching of Professor Krishnamacharya: Teachings
- Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya by T.K.V. Desikachar and R.H. Cravens
- Yoga Yajnavalkya (PDF) or book, by A. G. Mohan
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
- The “Yoga Sutra of Patanjali”: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) by David Gordon White
- “Seizing the Whip: B. K. S. Iyengar and the Making of Modern Yoga (PDF)” by Eric John Shaw, California Institute of Integral Studies, Asian and Comparative Studies
- “Sacred Thread: A Comprehensive Yoga Timeline: 2000 Events that Shaped Yoga History” by Eric Shaw
- “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West” by Michelle Goldberg
- Leslie’s original post on providing certificates.
- Yoga Alliance “Statement on Yoga Therapy”
- Leslie’s blog post from 2008: “I’m Not a Yoga Therapist Anymore“
- SCIENCE / PAIN / MEDICINE:
- John E. Sarno’s Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
- Spine research on Chirogeek.com
- Research study abstract: At least half of herniated discs spontaneously de-herniate
- Paul Grilley’s Bone Photo Gallery
- KNMLabs: Anatomical Explorations for Movement Professionals
- Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
- Restoring Prana: A Therapeutic Guide to Pranayama and Healing Through the Breath for Yoga Therapists, Yoga Teachers, and Healthcare Practitioners by Robin L. Rothenberg
- The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work by Donna Farhi
- YOGA PRACTICE:
- Three Breathing Techniques illustration
- The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice by T.K.V. Desikachar
- Yoga for Wellness: Healing with the Timeless Teachings of Viniyoga by Gary Kraftsow
- Intelligent Yoga: Re-educating Mind and Body by Peter Blackaby
- Wild Thing Is Not Impossible (but it still might not be worth doing) by Amy Matthews
- Teaching Inclusive, Safe And Ethical Yoga – Part 1: Empowerment by Yonnie Fung
- Yoga for Bendy People: Optimizing the Benefits of Yoga for Hypermobility by Libby Hinsley
- Students of T.K.V. Desikachar:
Should We Keep Mula Bandha All The Time?
Have you heard advice about maintaining mula bandha all the time? Have you heard advice about maintaining any body position all the time? Join Leslie and students as they examine well-meaning advice, habits, and practices you can follow to honor the balance into your system.