I recently listened to a podcast interview with movement therapist Greg Lehman. Greg's perspectives on movement, pain and pathology resonate strongly with my own, and I have shared his ideas on my Spacious Yoga Facebook page numerous times. I [...]
I recently read Todd Hargrove's book, "A Guide to Better Movement". I don't recall who initially recommended Hargrove's book to me, but it was after I had mentioned that I was reading and Katy Bowman's "Movement Matters" a few [...]
When I introduce the subjects of breath and bandha in my immersion and pranayama courses, I begin with a description of three different layers of internal feeling and experience to which we can attend and move from during practice. [...]
The following article is a transcript of a paper presented by Andy Davis, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, at the 25th national Asian Studies Development Program conference: "Wellbeing in Asian Traditions of Thought and [...]
One of my favorite fictional characters is John Oldman, from the “The Man from Earth” movie series. In the second installment of the series, John is a university professor of religious studies. Having had 14,000 years of experience to hone [...]
Spirit emerges and evolves out of the complex web of relationships which comprise the self-organizing intelligence of nature. No entity or organism exists as an independent island. An entity exists by means of its [...]
"I've been studying low back pain for the last 50 years of my life and if anyone says they know where low back pain comes from, they're full of shit" - Alf Nachemson, [...]
This article was originally published on my Spacious Yoga facebook page in April, 2017. In the above video, Mr. Lehman describes one important reason that I don't obsess over what I call "micro-alignment" principles in teaching [...]
This article was originally published on my Spacious Yoga facebook page in March, 2017. Bandha naturally emerges within a person when the two polarities of the spectrum of any given aspect of our existence are in relative balance and [...]
This article was originally published on my Spacious Yoga facebook page in September 2016. Sukha..... Bandha arises naturally within an Ashtanga practitioner when the qualities of sukha (softness, lightness, ease) and sthira (firmness, stability, strength) are both established and [...]