June 9, 2014
How do I report to the yoga world I'm so invested in, to which I owe my livelihood, and that I spent over a decade teaching in, that several basic staples of asana practice might be definitively unsafe?
June 7, 2014
Ten days ago, Diane Bruni and I hosted a public event called “What Are We Actually Doing in Asana: an exploration of yoga-related injuries.” There were about seventy people in attendance, most of them yoga teachers. When Diane asked who had been injured through asana practice, virtually everyone raised their hands.
May 31, 2014
Deepak Chopra’s favourite yoga teacher is quite bendy, possibly quite overheated in her gridlocked cube, and likely focuses on very simple pranayama in her trainings. The Maharaj, of course, is a little stiff with the cold, but apparently matchless in breath retention.
May 26, 2014
In a wildly entertaining tour-de-force of deconstructive research, David Gordon White’s The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A Biography (Princeton University Press, released today), is an extended meditation on the red violin of modern Yoga.