Weekend workshop handout (PDF)


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Student Survey

QUOTES:
  • Leslie Kaminoff has been in the process of teaching individualized, breath-centered yoga, even to groups, since meeting his teacher, T.K.V. Desikachar.
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Yoga is not about doing the asanas; it’s about undoing what’s in the way of the asanas.”
  • 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: “There are correct ways to do techniques. There is no one right way to breathe.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “What we are after in our Yoga practice is freedom. One of the first things to get free from is the idea that there is a *right* way. It doesn’t matter what pattern you’re stuck in, the problem is being stuck!”
  • 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.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “The simpler the practice, the more sophisticated a relationship you can have with it.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Without the breath it’s not Yoga.”
  • 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).”

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Reserve your spot now! November 6-10, 2023 San Diego

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