SOMOS Yoga, Corpus Christi, 2025

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Student Survey

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QUOTES:
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “If you can make even a tiny bit of positive change in something you do a lot of (like walking or breathing), it leads to a lot of positive change.”
  • 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.”
  • 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).”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Sthira is alertness without tension; Sukha is relaxation without dullness.”
  • 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.
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “An inquiry has no wrong answer because it has everything to do with you at a particular moment. As educators we must balance technique with inquiry.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “The benefit of learning a new breathing technique is unlearning your old way of breathing. Yoga isn’t about doing asana, it’s about undoing what’s in the way of the asana.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “It is far more powerful to engage someone in an inquiry than issue a series of instructions and corrections.”
  • T.K.V. Desikachar: “You cannot have yoga without viyoga.”
  • Leslie Kaminoff: “Healing is different from fixing or curing. Sometimes healing involves changing your relationship to what has gone wrong.”
  • 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
WATCH/LISTEN:
RECOMMENDED READING:
KNMLabs.com next lab August 9-15, 2026
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, cont:
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