Workshop handout (PDF)


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Student Survey

QUOTES
      • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Without the breath it’s not Yoga.”
      • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits (tapas).”
      • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is a form of clarity.”
      • Leslie Kaminoff: “The benefit of learning a new breathing technique is unlearning your old way of breathing.”
      • T.K.V. Desikachar: “If you take care of the exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.”
      • Leslie Kaminoff: “Yoga is not about doing the asanas; it’s about undoing what’s in the way of the asanas.”
      • Leslie Kaminoff: “Asanas don’t have alignment, people have alignment. Asana is something people do, it does not exist outside of an individual’s body.”
      • Amy Matthews: “An asana is a container for an experience.”
      • From Leslie’s work with Amy Matthews, which references her work with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen: “Alignment is a clear pathway of weight passing through balanced joint spaces.”
      • 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.”
      • Amy Matthews, paraphrasing Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen: “Healthy movement is well-distributed: a little bit of movement from a lot of places.” This was further clarified by Leslie: “a little bit of movement, coming from a lot of places, repeated a reasonable number of times.”
      • Leslie Kaminoff: “If you can make even a tiny bit of positive change in something you do a lot of (breathing, walking), that’s a lot of positive change.”

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What is Flexibility, and How Much Do We Really Need?

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