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• WATCH/LISTEN:
  • Prana chant video
  • The Warrior Series: Upwardly Mobile video and article on Yoga Journal website
  • Tom Myers’ Deep Front Line dissection video
  • Gil Hedley’s YouTube channel
  • Breath-Centered Yoga with Leslie Kaminoff (DVD from Amazon)
  • Freeing the Breath: Health, Relaxation, and Clarity Through Better Breathing with Leslie Kaminoff (audio CD from Amazon)
  • Yoga Anatomy YouTube channel
  • Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing DVD (from Amazon)
  • Paul Grilley’s Bone Photo Gallery
  • Lynda Huey’s Complete PT (water-based workout and therapy)
• RECOMMENDED READING:
  • ANATOMY:
    • Yoga Anatomy, 2nd edition
    • Yoga Journal article: Anatomy 101: Understanding Your Tailbone by Amy Matthews and Leslie Kaminoff
    • More Leslie Kaminoff content on Yoga Journal
    • The Body Moveable by David Gorman
    • Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain
    • Anatomy Of Breathing by Blandine Calais Germain
    • Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More by Andrew Biel
    • Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W. Myers
    • Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
    • Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy by Irene Dowd
  • HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY / PHILOSOPHY:
    • Sri T. Krishnamacharya’s history of classical alignment in the Yoga Makaranda, part I (PDF) and Yoga Makaranda, part II (PDF)
    • Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice by T.K.V.Desikachar
    • 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
    • Freud and Yoga: Two Philosophies of Mind Compared by Hellfried Krusche
    • 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
    • Benjamin Lorr’s Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
    • Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton
    • Leslie’s original post on providing certificates.
    • Leslie’s post, originally published on Elephant Journal, “My Teacher is Gone”
  • SCIENCE / PAIN / MEDICINE:
    • Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
    • Buteyko Method for asthma
    • John E. Sarno’s Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
    • Breathe Well, Be Well: A Program to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Asthma, Hypertension, Migraine, and Other Disorders for Better Health by Robert Fried, Ph.D.
    • Spine research on Chirogeek.com
    • The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life by Robert Becker and Gary Selden
  • YOGA PRACTICE:
    • 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
    • Yoga for Body, Breath and Mind: a Guide to Personal Reintegration by A.G. Mohan
    • Leslie’s original stick figure drawing of the Hands-free Warrior Series
    • Wobble cushion
    • Blog post about upper-chest breathing experience: “Leslie Kaminoff Made Me Cry (and it was awesome)”

Leslie performing kapalabhati on a bathroom scale

Leslie Kaminoff performs kapalabhati on a bathroom scale, illustrating Sir Isaac Newton’s law: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

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.

Soma / Psyche – Introduction to a Talk by Frances Sommer Anderson

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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