Mission 200 hour anatomy workshop
Friday Sept 19-Sunday Sept 21, 2025

Signed certificate (Fillable PDF)
Student Survey
QUOTES:
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “As educators we must balance technique with inquiry.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “An inquiry has no wrong answer because it has everything to do with you at a particular moment.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Without the breath it’s not Yoga.” i.e., if what you are doing is so intense that you’ve lost focus on or access to your breath, it is no longer yoga.
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Be conscious of universalizing your experience because it always leaves someone out. In other words, use “I” statements rather than “You” or “We” statements.
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Breathing is shape change. Desikachar taught that spinal movement is shape change in your cavities — you cannot breathe without those movements.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “The benefit, or purpose, of learning a new breathing technique is unlearning your old way of breathing.”
  • 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.”
  • 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.”
  • 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: “We make the space and the universe fills it.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “If you take care of the exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “You cannot have yoga without viyoga.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff on teaching bandhas: “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.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Yoga is relationship.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Healing is different from fixing or curing. Sometimes healing involves changing your relationship to what has gone wrong.”
WATCH/LISTEN:
RECOMMENDED READING:
KNMLabs.com Movement Anatomy August 9-15, 2026 Colorado Springs
Should We Keep Mula Bandha All The Time?
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
RECOMMENDED READING, continued
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