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Resources to introduce you to these thousand-year-old practices, and give a sense of my style of teaching.
What is yoga?
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It's a life-long practice to study yoga and meditation.
The below selection is not designed to substitute a regular practice, rather to support your curiosity and decision-making about working together. They are all resources I have chosen because they have been helpful to my own personal and professional development.
Judith wonderfully explains that yoga goes beyond our physical postures, breathing, and meditation—it infuses our everyday life. She also introduces foundational yoga philosophy texts such as the Yoga Sutra and Bhagavad Gita.
In my teaching, breathing is the most essential part of the physical yoga practice. But the key to the power of breath is its simplicity and effortlessness. Full of poetry and images that guide subtlety and gentleness into your practice.
From Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, this book is an easy-to-understand illumination of life's deepest questions. He teaches how to generate happiness, love, and understanding, by living deeply in the here and now.
Jivana is a deeply inspiring teacher. He started out sharing yoga with sufferers of HIV/AIDS, and here he shares how yoga can and must be made accessible to everyone—in any body, at any age, and any state of health.
This quick video gives a breakdown of the physical and mental benefits of yoga, which can be supported by scientific studies.
Justina Ercole is a fitness creator whose style of well-informed, educational content I admire. Here she tries out two different styles of yoga and shares her experience.
Many people, including myself, are drawn to meditation seeking to slow down an overactive brain. Brother Phap Luu guides you to develop awareness of your thoughts, and create spaciousness in your mind.
Lisa Miller is an academic who researches spirituality and clinical psychology at Columbia University (my alma mater!). In this video, she explains how studies demonstrate that spiritual practice builds resilience against clinical depression.
One of the most beautiful and thought-provoking podcasts ever. Krista Tippett invites spiritual leaders, poets, historians, scientists, doctors, artists, activists and more, and asks them: What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? A podcast of extreme thoughtfulness, wisdom, and intelligence.
Adam is a pilates instructor and doctor of physical therapy. His passion is sharing scientific evidence-based knowledge with pilates and other movement instructors so that they can keep up to date with the latest developments in our understanding of the human body. This is critical when we practice things like yoga asana. Though the practice is ancient, we owe it to our students to update our teaching to be safer, more accessible, and more effective.
Episodes are often around 10 minutes long, and dive into a teaching from the Buddhist dharma. Though 10 minutes is short, every episode is worth its full weight in wisdom, and often will give you something to think over for hours and days to come.
To me, yoga and meditation are practices for life. I am guided by my years-long developed spirituality, as well as the latest research I can follow in the sciences.
My life has been full of ups and downs, mental and physical illness, and random fortune and misfortune. This guides me above all to live and teach with compassion.
If this is what you are looking for in a teacher, I would love to hear from you.