Berkshire Yoga Festival 2025, Hancock, MA

Workshop handout (PDF)
Signed certificate (Fillable PDF)
Student Survey
QUOTES:
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “You cannot have yoga without viyoga.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Figuring out (swadhaya) what is negotiable (tapas) and what is not (ishvara pranidhana) – based on your anatomy – is the basis of Yoga practice.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “The benefit of learning a new breathing technique is unlearning your old way of breathing.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: An inquiry has no wrong answer because it has everything to do with you at a particular moment.
  • BoS : CoG : RoM – Leslie’s movement philosophy: start with BoS before moving on to changing your center of gravity (core in motion) before RoM (full expression of the pose). If at any point you experience difficulty, go back to the prior step:
    • BoS: Base of Support
    • CoG: Center of Gravity
    • RoM: Range of Motion
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “It is far more powerful to engage someone in an inquiry than issue a series of instructions and corrections.”
WATCH/LISTEN:
RECOMMENDED READING:
Should We Keep Mula Bandha All The Time?
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.
WHAT IS FLEXIBILITY, AND HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY NEED?
Do you do yoga to live a better life, or do you live to do better yoga? Your answer may surprise you, and it will help you learn where to set healthy limits in your own practice.

HONESTY IN YOGA CREDENTIALING
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