Sun and Moon, October 2021

  • QUOTES:
    • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Without the breath it’s not Yoga.”
    • 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: “Proprioception is a sense that reveals where you are in space. Interoception reveals where the space is – or is not – in your body.”
    • Leslie Kaminoff: “Asanas don’t have alignment, people have alignment. Asana is something people do, it does not exist outside of an individual’s body.”
    • T.K.V. Desikachar: “Your yoga practice must always be a little more clever than your habits (tapas).”
    • 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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What is Flexibility, and How Much Do We Really Need?

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