• 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 YouTube channel and his Heart Dance.
  • Breath-Centered Yoga with Leslie Kaminoff (DVD from Amazon)
  • Freeing the Breath: Health, Relaxation, and Clarity Through Better Breathing with Leslie Kaminoff (audio CD from Amazon)
  • Yoga Anatomy YouTube channel
  • Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing DVD (from Amazon)
  • Jill Bolte Taylor’s “Powerful Stroke of Insight” TED Talk
  • Yoga Alliance’s Yoga Talks with Leslie Kaminoff on Regulation
  • Music that Leslie played: Barbatuques; Toshi Reagon
  • Swami Ramdev and his two friends, only one of whom knows how to do kapalabhati
• 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
    • The Body Moveable by David Gorman
    • Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More by Andrew Biel
    • Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists by Thomas W. Myers
    • Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
    • Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy by Irene Dowd
    • Scoliosis: Ellen Kiley interviewed by Julie Wilkins and ForeverFused.com
  • 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
    • Teachings by Claude Marechal
    • 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
    • Freud and Yoga: Two Philosophies of Mind Compared by Hellfried Krusche
    • 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
    • Benjamin Lorr’s Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
    • Leslie’s original post on providing certificates.
    • Yoga Alliance “Statement on Yoga Therapy”
    • Leslie’s blog post from 2008: “I’m Not a Yoga Therapist Anymore“
    • “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
    • The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger
  • SCIENCE / PAIN / MEDICINE:
    • Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
    • John E. Sarno’s Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
    • Spine research on Chirogeek.com
    • Paul Grilley’s Bone Photo Gallery
    • Lynda Huey’s Complete PT, water-based exercise rehabilitation and training.
  • 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
    • Yoga for Body, Breath and Mind: a Guide to Personal Reintegration by A.G. Mohan
    • Wobble cushion
    • Leslie spoke of the following teachers he admires:
      • Gil Hedley, Ph.D., founder of Integral Anatomy Productions, LLC, and Somanautics Workshops, Inc.
      • Amy Matthews, Leslie’s writing partner and teaching partner at The Breathing Project.
      • Richard Freeman, whose physique is ideal for Ashtanga yoga (though that’s not the reason he admires him, it’s just amusing to reference his arm to torso proportions)
      • Pete Blackaby, someone Leslie has recently become aware of.
      • Gary Kraftsow’s American Viniyoga Institute
      • Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering
      • A. G. Mohan and Srivatsa Ramaswami, both contemporaries of T.K.V. Desikachar, longterm students of his father, T. Krishnamacharya.

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.”

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