We can’t think of a better place for pranayama than on the beautiful Yucatan Peninsula, amidst cooling sea breezes and under glorious clear skies! We hope you won’t miss this unique opportunity to study with Leslie in an intimate intensive, exploring your breath en plein air.
Don’t miss the early reg deadline: Participants who place a deposit by December 1 save $200 and those who pay in full by December 1 save $300!
Read more at oneyogacollective.com or contact Laura for more information.
Where better than the seashore to experience the way you can let your breath go, wait, feel the body’s need for air, and allow the inhalation to arise again on its own? If you’ve always wanted to study with Leslie, this is your chance. Spend a week in Maya Tulum with Leslie Kaminoff exploring your breath, finding space in your body (plus margaritas)
Don’t miss the early reg deadline: Participants who place a deposit by December 1 save $200 and those who pay in full by December 1 save $300!
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I just finished a weekend workshop at the Yoga Sanctuary in Toronto, sponsored by new friends, Ashley and Bryon, who run Body Evolutions.
One of the highlights was the opportunity to work with a young woman with a 75° thoracic c-curve scoliosis stabilized by Harrington rod surgery. We played with combining warrior stance with asymmetrical arm movements to identify the most unstable combination. By varying the vector of her arm movements, she was able to activate long dormant muscles, helping to relieve some chronic pain under her right scapula.
It was very rewarding to help her discover how much rib cage movement she still had and experience freer breathing as a result. Lydia was able to snap some photos documenting her curve flattening out during this exploration.
All in all it was a fabulous weekend with a roomful of experienced teachers and studio owners. I look forward to returning to Toronto soon.
More photos available on Flickr (photo credit: Lydia Mann) .
You know those footprints in the sand? They can provide a great deal of information about your relationship to the earth. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to study with Leslie in an intimate intensive. He’ll help you get grounded and guide you while you explore pathways through all the arches in your feet and through the rest of your body.
Don’t miss the early registration deadline! Participants who place a deposit (only $395) by December 1 save $200 and those who pay in full by December 1 save $300.
Read more at oneyogacollective.com or contact Laura for more information.
Leslie’s approach to breath-centered yoga grows out of and reinforces the natural spirals and beautiful asymmetries in all of us. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to study with Leslie in an intimate intensive retreat. Explore the waves, water and spirals we come from.
Don’t miss the early reg deadline: Participants who place a deposit by December 1 save $200 and those who pay in full by December 1 save $300!
Read more at oneyogacollective.com or contact Laura for more information.
If you’ve been reading these posts for a while you know I love to travel, love to teach and love a good party. I hope you’ll join me – along with Sadie Nardini and some of our closest friends – when we’ll get to do all those things at once!
We’ll be teaching at Maya Tulum during a weeklong retreat April 5-12, 2014. It’s not too soon to plan your next vacation, and it’s starting to fill up, so check it out:
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A few weeks ago I wrote about a wonderful event where I was presenting a weekend workshop on The Knot of Brahma – Emotional Suppression as the Source of Common Pain Syndromes in Rapid City, SD.
The Yoga Therapy Summit was hosted by Surya Chandra Yoga Sanga and lovingly organized by JJ Gormley-Etchells and her great team. It provided a wonderful, intimate opportunity for some of T.K.V. Desikachar’s senior teachers to gather in one place, share memories, stories and teachings from the Krishnamacharya lineage.
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You can learn more about my fellow presenters at their sites:
For more photos view the rest here (you can check out our visit to Utah, too).
I am very excited and honored to be presenting alongside my esteemed colleagues and fellow students of the Krishnamacharya/Desikachar lineage at this unprecedented event.
I hope you can join us for this one-of-a-kind experience in this beautiful setting.
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For the occasion, I’ve created a brand-new presentation entitled: “The Knot of Brahma – Emotional Suppression as the Source of Common Pain Syndromes.“
Here is the description of the topic:
“The ancient model of prana/apana samayogah as a definition of pranayama offers a simple, yet powerful model for how we can uncover and resolve the internal obstructions that result from a lifetime of managing our emotional “spaces.”
These ideas are especially important for Yoga Educators because there is mounting evidence that the most common pain syndromes suffered by vast numbers of people have their origins in the mind-body/psyche-soma
In this wide-ranging lecture/demo, Leslie Kaminoff will review some of the latest research that supports this view, and he will relate it to the uniquely integrated teachings of breath-centered yoga practice within the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya.
For educators dedicated to working more deeply and effectively, these insights will be invaluable in the pursuit of reducing the “bad space” of dukha and increasing the “good space” of sukha.“
present a weekend workshop
December 15-16, 2012 | 9am-5pm
Join anatomy and movement pioneers and best-selling authors Tom Myers and Leslie Kaminoff as they co-present an amazing exploration of the core structures of the body, incorporating lecture, movement and video presentations. Not just for hands-on practitioners, this workshop will be invaluable for anyone who wants to experience more freedom of expression, movement and sensation.
Breathing is a whole-body movement that can integrate structural and physiological responses throughout our whole selves. This workshop will help you explore the breath response in your pelvis, expanding both your own felt sense and your ability to see and work with others.
WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE:
Painting/Design: lydiamann.com
I’m very excited to have written the featured article, “Upwardly Mobile” for the current (Oct. 2012) issue of Yoga Journal. My deepest thanks go out to my fantastic editor Charity Ferreira, my creative partner Lydia Mann, model Kate Holcombe, and yoga spotter extraordinaire, Jennifer Rodrigue.
In June I flew out to San Francisco for a day to help with the photo shoot, and I had a blast. It was a long day, and we shot a record number of poses for a YJ practice article (23), but since we were so efficient, we had time to shoot a video of the sequence, which is available at Yoga Journal’s livemag.
The sequence itself is one I’ve been teaching for about 20 years, and is the central piece of the DVD I released thru Human Kinetics in 2010. I’m really pleased to be sharing it with a wider audience. Below, I’m attaching the original drawing of the sequence from 1993, and some images of the photo shoot at Michael Winokur’s studio.
Give the practice a try and let me know what you think!
