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Leslie Kaminoff’s Teaching Methodology workshop, Thursday-Friday
Leslie Kaminoff’s Fundamentals workshop, Saturday-Sunday
- QUOTES:
- 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: “If we resist the change that is inevitable, we miss the change that is possible.”
- 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: “It is far more powerful to engage someone in an inquiry than issue a series of instructions and corrections.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar: “The form of the practice should serve the function.”
- Amy Matthews: “An asana is a container for an experience.”
- Leslie Kaminoff: “Yoga is a power tool and you don’t want to misuse a power tool. If you use that tool neurotically, you may become a powerful neurotic.”
- WATCH/LISTEN:
- 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 and Fascia is all around us! (for 2018 Fascia Congress, Berlin)
- 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
- The music Leslie plays each morning: Barbatuques’s Corpo do Som, Igor Ezendam’s Red Moon and Toshi Reagon’s Have You Heard
- Laura Seago’s podcast “Like Mind, Like Body” Yogi Leslie Kaminoff on Back Pain, Dr. Sarno and the Power of Breath
- RECOMMENDED READING:
- 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
- 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 Kaminoff Interview with “T.K.V. Desikachar in Madras, October, 1992“
- 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
- Buteyko Method for asthma
- The Man Who Lost His Body, documentary about proprioception
- Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- 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
- JadeYoga’s 2019 calendar photographed by Francesco Mastalia (Leslie is Mr. March!) –available only from USA site
- This blog describes how long, and how much injury it took, for one teacher to begin to break free of the rigid assumptions behind her Iyengar practice: Tricky Trikonasana: My Travels with Triangle Pose by Sandra Razieli
- Emotional Yoga: How the Body Can Heal the Mind by Bija Bennett
Want to know more about Leslie’s online courses? Start here!
We are offering a one-time 10% discount to attendees so if you join Leslie’s online course within two weeks of ending this workshop, participating in an online community of over 5,000 students worldwide, this is a great opportunity.Leslie performing kapalabhati on a bathroom scale
Leslie Kaminoff performs kapalabhati on a bathroom scale, illustrating Sir Isaac Newton’s law: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”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
If you’re ready for a learning experience that will make you a more sought-after teacher, re-charge your personal practice, and change the way you think about yoga, breath, and movement, join our online community.
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