• T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is a form of clarity.”
• T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits (tapas).”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “The simpler the practice, the more sophisticated a relationship you can have with it.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “Breath 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 object of meditation for the teacher is the student.”
• T.K.V. Desikachar: “Yoga therapy is 90% waste removal.”
• Leslie Kaminoff: “Yoga as a therapeutic intervention recognizes that everything that is needed for healing is already present. Prana may need to be uncovered, but nothing needs to be added.”
• 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 clarified by Leslie: “This does not mean a well-distributed, sequential micromanagement of our body parts.”
• Conversely, Leslie Kaminoff says “Unhealthy movement is too much movement coming from too few places repeated too many times (repetitive stress).”
• 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.”

• 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 courses and video clips
• 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?
• Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing
• Yoga Alliance’s Yoga Talks with Leslie Kaminoff on Regulation
• Christine Danton, aka The Amazing Cristina post-hip replacement at age 75
• The music Leslie plays each morning: Barbatuques’s Corpo do Som, Igor Ezendam’s Red Moon and Toshi Reagon’s Have You Heard

• 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 and Your Spine, Your Yoga: Developing stability and mobility for your spine 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
  • “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West” by Michelle Goldberg
  • Leslie’s original post on providing certificates.
  • DOWNLOAD YOUR OWN SIGNED CERTIFICATE HERE
  • Yoga Alliance “Statement on Yoga Therapy”
  • Leslie’s blog post from 2008: “I’m Not a Yoga Therapist Anymore“
  • Leslie’s blog post from 2014: “My teacher is gone” and “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
  • Polyvagal Theory
  • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life Paperback by Ed Yong
• 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
  • Teaching Inclusive, Safe And Ethical Yoga – Part 1: Empowerment by Yonnie Fung
  • Students of T.K.V. Desikachar:
    • Gary Kraftsow
    • Richard Miller
    • Larry Payne
    • Mirka Scalco Kraftsow
    • Mark Whitwell
    • R. Sriram
    • Navtej Johar
    • Paul Harvey

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