We learn by doing not by words and images.
Measuring some of what yoga can do helps guide us.
- “Yoga: What You Need to Know” from National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, US National Institutes of Health
I follow our anatomy in teaching you. But you please ignore the names for everything as names and diagrams distract you from learning. Focus on how you feel.
- Trail Guide to the Body by Andrew Biel, 2019
- Strength Training Anatomy by Frédéric Delavier, 2023
Yoga can injure you. The philosophy of yoga holds to do no harm. A teacher needs understanding of poses and anatomy and moving and teaching to avoid harm.
- “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” by William J Broad, The New York Times Magazine, 5 January 2012
- The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards by William J Broad, 2012
Yoga is very new and evolving. And some parts of it are old. There’s a lot of marketing and other bullshit and worse. Avoiding this crap helps us do yoga with more kindness to ourselves and each other.
- “Sexual abuse by yoga gurus” from Wikipedia
- “Modern Yoga” by Andrea Jain, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, 7 July 2016
- Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton, 2010
- “Post-Lineage Yoga & Dandelions” by Theodora Wildcroft, The Luminescent, September 2019
Yoga is more than poses.
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962
- Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971
- “Holocene extinction” from Wikipedia
- Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander, 1978
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