In-Service handout (PDF)


Signed certificate (Fillable PDF)


Student Survey

QUOTES:

• T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is a form of clarity.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “It is far more powerful to engage someone in an inquiry than issue a series of instructions and corrections.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “If you’re going to ask someone to engage a muscle, you better make sure they can release it first or it’s just tension on top of tension.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “There are correct ways to do techniques. There is no one right way to breathe.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “The simpler the practice, the more sophisticated a relationship you can have with it.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “Our job is not to focus on what has gone wrong in a person’s body. Our job as yoga educators is to focus on what is still going right.”




WATCH/LISTEN:

• • Tom Myers’ Deep Front Line dissection video
• • Freeing the Breath: Health, Relaxation, and Clarity Through Better Breathing with Leslie Kaminoff
  • YouTube channels: free shorts from YogaAnatomy.net online courses and Leslie’s Breathing Project Q&A series. Got a yoga or anatomy question you’d like Leslie to address? Send it to questions@yogaanatomy.org.
  • Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing
• The Man Who Lost His Body, documentary about proprioception

RECOMMENDED READING:

• ANATOMY:
  • Yoga Anatomy, 3rd edition
  • Yoga Journal article: Anatomy 101: Understanding Your Tailbone by Amy Matthews and Leslie Kaminoff PLUS: the missing illustration
  • More Leslie Kaminoff content on Yoga Journal
  • Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W. Myers
  • Your Body, Your Yoga and Your Spine, Your Yoga: Developing stability and mobility for your spine by Bernie Clark
  • Yoga for Bendy People: Optimizing the Benefits of Yoga for Hypermobility by Libby Hinsley
• SCIENCE / PAIN / MEDICINE:
  • The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv
  • 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





 

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.

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