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The Vinyasa of Breath
I never thought I would be one of those people who come up with their own yoga method and never set out to do so, but a few months ago it started to dawn on me ago that that's exactly what had happened. I decided to call it The Vinyasa of Breath.
This breath-centered, slow-moving approach to asana goes deep into alignment using a completely different method than I used for most of my yoga life. It's much less about instructing your body to contract particular muscles to have specific effects, as I did for years. Now, instead, I visualize where I want the bones to go — whole bones not parts of bones — and let my body figure out which muscles to use to get there.
This approach — based on a "holistic" understanding of how on bones, fascia and other parts of body work together — has revolutionized my own yoga practice and how I do yoga therapy. It's opened up my body more deeply than my old "achievement oriented" way of practicing, even though it feels like I'm not trying as hard. It's calmed my nervous system and quieted my mind better. Plus I'm finding it safer: I almost never get all those little strains and pulls that happened again and again over the years in my yoga practice. Many of my students are discovering the same thing. Check out this video to learn more. 
This Vinyasa of Breath training is a three-part series live-streaming on consecutive Fridays (and if you can't attend live, you can watch the recording). You may also be interested in another livestream course starting August 11th, which continues my fascination with the breath, in yoga and in life:
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most in-person workshops are being cancelled or rescheduled. The situation continues to evolve. Check for updates here. Happily, in their place, I will be teaching several online workshops in the coming months, which anyone, anywhere with internet access can attend (and if you can't attend while live streaming, you can watch the recording). These include a 3-part training on the new system of yoga I'm introducing called The Vinyasa of Breath, on consecutive Fridays, which begins August 21st.
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My YouTube Channel, Ask the Yoga Doctor, launched last fall, and I've been getting great feedback from many viewers.
If you've got a question about yoga, yoga therapy, holistic healing, yoga anatomy and physiology or anything else you'd like me to address in a future video, please send it to AskTheYogaDoctor@gmail.com. Lately I've been doing a series on how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are a sampling of the videos, with many more available on YouTube...
If you've got a question about yoga, yoga therapy, holistic healing, yoga anatomy and physiology or anything else you'd like me to address in a future video, please send it to AskTheYogaDoctor@gmail.com. Lately I've been doing a series on how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are a sampling of the videos, with many more available on YouTube...
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Here's my 2019 update of “Health Conditions Helped by Yoga (as Shown in Scientific Studies).” The PDF contains over 40 pages of references, listing the scientific studies by condition. Embedded hyperlinks will take you to the study's abstract, or if available, to a free, full-text version of the study. For printable posters (including A4 versions), click here.
I compile this bibliography of research as a service to the yoga world and hereby give permission to copy this PDF, print it out, distribute it to others and share it on social media. 
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In conjunction with an online course on Yoga As Medicine on Yoga U, I recorded this video. It's over 40 minutes long, and is a good introduction to my overall approach to yoga therapy, my ideas about what yoga teachers and therapists should — and shouldn't — be doing with students with medical conditions, integrating yoga into modern medical care, etc. I had a lot of fun recording this interview and hope you enjoy it!
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