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- QUOTES:
- Leslie Kaminoff: Practice as a question: “Try this, try that, see what you notice” rather than: “Do this and you will feel that.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “It is far more powerful to engage someone in an inquiry than issue a series of instructions and corrections.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is a form of clarity.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “There is a difference between moving through space (hip-hinging) or moving space through your body (articulating through the vertebrae).”
- 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.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “Voice is shape change of the pharyngeal muscles. Breathing is the shape change of the abdominal and thoracic cavities.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “Yoga therapy is 90% waste removal” and “If you take care of the exhale, the inhale takes care of itself.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “If you can make even a tiny bit of positive change in something you do a lot of, that’s a lot of positive change.”
- Amy Matthews, paraphrasing Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen: “Healthy movement is well-distributed: a little bit of movement from a lot of places.”
- Conversely, Leslie Kaminoff says “Unhealthy movement is too much movement coming from too few places repeated too many times (repetitive stress).”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “Yoga is alertness without tension; relaxation without dullness.”
- 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
- Freeing the Breath: Health, Relaxation, and Clarity Through Better Breathing with Leslie Kaminoff
- Yoga Anatomy YouTube channel
- Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing DVD (from Amazon)
- Yoga Alliance’s Yoga Talks with Leslie Kaminoff on Regulation
- CurableHealth.com interview: Leslie Kaminoff on Back Pain, Dr. Sarno and the Power of Breath
- Jill Bolte Taylor’s powerful “Stroke of Insight” TED Talk
- The music Leslie was playing each morning: Barbatuques’s Corpo do Som (music CD)
- 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
- Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W. Myers
- Your Body, Your Yoga 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)
- 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” by Eric John Shaw, California Institute of Integral Studies, Asian and Comparative Studies
- Leslie’s original post on providing certificates. DOWNLOAD YOUR OWN CERTIFICATES HERE: Friday TT (6 hrs); Saturday-Sunday (12 hrs)
- Yoga Alliance “Statement on Yoga Therapy”
- Leslie’s blog post from 2008: “I’m Not a Yoga Therapist Anymore“
- Leslie’s interview with “T.K.V. Desikachar in Madras, October, 1992“
- Leslie’s blog post from 2014: “My teacher is gone…the sequel“
- 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
- Buteyko Method for asthma
- Polyvagal Theory
- Kelly McGonigal’s work around heart rate variability (HRV) is part of this book: The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
- 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
- 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
- Leslie’s stick figures for Hands-Free Warrior Series
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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.
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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