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"There are many books on how to perform hands-on yoga adjustments, and many of them encourage unsafe methods. Mark Stephens has created a biomechanically safe set of adjustments that should be mandatory reading for every yoga teacher."
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"The first part is theory. The second part is an illustrated section with hands-on assists detailed. The theory section is great and should be taught in all YTTs- it outlines principles of doing assists, qualities of touch (and how not to touch), the "
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“yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce”
― Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes
― Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes
“The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.”
― Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
― Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
“Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: “If you want to learn something,” he says, “read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!” (Bhajan).”
― Teaching Yoga
― Teaching Yoga
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“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
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Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
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“The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.”
― Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
― Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques
