Berkshire Yoga Festival 2026, Hancock, MA

Thursday workshop handout (PDF)
Friday workshop handout (PDF)
Saturday workshop handout (PDF)
Sunday morning workshop handout (PDF)
Sunday afternoon workshop handout (PDF)
Signed certificate (Fillable PDF)
Student Survey
QUOTES:
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “There is no such thing as an asana without the person making the shape. You can’t abstract asana outside of the person doing it.”
  • 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.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Flexibility without strength is instability. Strength without flexibility is rigidity.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Sthira is alertness without tension; Sukha is relaxation without dullness.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The form of an asana must serve its function.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “It is far more powerful to engage someone in an inquiry than issue a series of instructions and corrections.”
  • 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.”
  • Conversely, Leslie Kaminoff says “Unhealthy movement is too much movement coming from too few places repeated too many times (repetitive stress).”
  • 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: “There are correct ways to do techniques. There is no one right way to breathe.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “The benefit of learning a new breathing technique is unlearning your old way of breathing.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Either the goal of yoga is to be free, or the goal of yoga is to get it right. You can’t really have it both ways. Because if you choose freedom, you have to divest yourself of that crazy idea that you have to get it right.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Breath (and thus yoga) is the great teacher of tapas, svadhyaya, isvarapranidhana. Tapas refers to that which you can change; isvarapranidhana relates to the stuff you can’t change; svadhyaya refers to self-reflection, the introspection that allows us to distinguish one from the other.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “If you take care of the exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Yoga therapy is 90% waste removal.”
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KNMLabs.com Movement Anatomy August 9-15, 2026 Colorado Springs

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