One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, once wrote:
Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize.
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To be here now; alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to [...]
This is part 2 of What Your Yoga Teacher Will Tell You, a response to the Smart Money article: 10 Things Your Yoga Teacher Won’t Tell You. Read Part 1.
What your yoga teacher won’t tell you, number 5: “I’m just here to get lucky.”
While many gyms, training schools, and yoga teachers’ associations frown on liaisons between [...]
Lately, it seems like the whole world is going stir-crazy on the commercialization of yoga, or debating what it is and what it’s not, and if it’s lost its soul. I have taken refuge in going back in time, as far as possible, and for some reason found some solace in reading what people who have [...]
To Study and to Teach Yoga
I finished my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in April of 2009, a short four months ago. Since then, I’ve been immersing myself in two things: studying yoga and teaching yoga.
Coming out of the 8-month program, I had learned and grew so much, such that if I never got to teach [...]
Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesilogy, and Asana by Judith Hanson Lasater
This book is quickly becoming my adult blankie. It’s a great book about Anatomy and the basic structure of the human body without sounding like a dry and impersonal science textbook.
If you are unfamiliar with Judith Lasater, she is a senior yoga teacher and a physical therapist [...]
Yoga As Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing by Timothy McCall
This book is written by a board-certified medical doctor on the therapeutic benefits of yoga, and which style of yoga is suitable for certain illness and conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome, depression, infertility, cancer, etc.
Again, I love this book for its conversational [...]
30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers
This is a great reference for me when doing my own home practice and sequencing poses for a class. My favorite part of the book is the Theme Practice sections where Judith has suggested sequences for what ails you: lower and upper back, hips and [...]