Mission Statement

of DSL Let-Go Yoga:

A. New Yoga Students At Risk
In recent times, many people who would not have been attracted to yoga are trying it out, and many of them have known or unknown physical and/or psycho-physical problems lurking in the background. Formerly, these people self-DE-selected themselves from ever even trying yoga, often because they believed they could not do it. Stereotypes of standing on head or doing Pretzel Postures were too intimidating, or dangerous, or fear of looking silly, so they did not pursue it.

Now, as these stereotypes have somewhat broken down, many formerly resistant people are trying out yoga, including those with predispositions to or existing injury. The vast majority have positive results, but a small percentage do not. More than a few have sustained significant injuries as a result. In many cases, the dissatisfied or injured person never informs their instructor, they just never return to class, nor go back to yoga at all. Often, they are not even sure yoga was the problem.

Finally, as more people become informed of the positive possibilities of yoga, more people with problems or injury will be attracted to trying it out. This includes more elderly people with our aging population, and the current cultures increased emphasis on health and well being. Therefore the risk of injury can be expected to increase.

B. Yoga Teachers At Risk
Increasing numbers of Yoga Teachers who have been practicing many years are developing aches, pains and dysfunction that is limiting, or eliminating, their ability to practice or teach. Because many of them are highly trained in yoga systems that are thought to be very structurally sound, there is a certain level of denial that the way they are doing their yoga COULD be causing their issues, especially since many of these conditions take years to develop. This situation is more prevalent than most would suspect.

C. Preventive & Therapeutic Yoga Necessary
Because the injury rate in yoga has been increasing, Preventive and Therapeutic approaches to yoga must become more prevalent, applied and integrated, even — no, ESPECIALLY — in the basic classroom setting. It would also be of great value if the very same techniques that prevented injury ALSO helped maximize the results produced with yoga.

D. Minimizing & Healing Injury while Maximizing Results
The First Focus of the DSL Method of Yoga and DSL Let-Go Yoga are to prevent or minimize injury, and help people resolve or heal existing injury. Whether caused by yoga or not, if the injury is neuromuscular or myofascial in nature, there is a good chance it can be helped with physical yoga, especially if integrated with a mental, meditative component.

The principles that Minimize Injury are the very same principles that help Maximize Results in the practice of Yoga. An unique perspective is offered on this website that integrates bodymind function and makes one's yoga practice more Effective, Efficient and Safe.

E. Yoga-based, Hands-on, Structural Bodywork
(DSL EdgeWork)
In the cases when the neuromuscular or myofascial systems are too far out of balance for Physical/Mental Yoga (Conscious Stretching) to help or provide sufficient resolution, very frequently, hands-on bodywork can. This is especially true if the technique is founded and grounded on principles of Physical/Mental Yoga.

The DSL Method of Bodywork (DSL EdgeWork) is designed with this in mind, and incorporates a unique system of structural analysis that guides the therapist to locate sources of trouble that are often overlooked by most therapies.

F. Scientific Foundation of BodyMind Connection
The experiential understanding and practice of the Body-Mind Connection is vital to properly, safely and productively practicing and teaching yoga. A sound, Scientific Foundation that reveals the inner-workings of the BodyMind is of equal importance. The Experiential and Scientific Foundations cannot truly be separated nor ignored without great cost to everyone involved.

G. Understand & Communicate Benefits of Yoga
Few people, including most in the yoga and stretching professions, understand their immense and profound value, especially at the physical level. A more fundamental understanding of how yoga works, and its interactions with the various problems that people develop, would be a great contribution to non-invasive health care and preventive therapeutics. This value needs to be explored, expanded upon, and communicated to more yoga teachers, other health care professionals and the General Public.

H. Correct Problems & Self Regulate
We in the Yoga Profession need to get a handle on and correct these growing problems while expanding and enhancing the Profound Results that Physical/Mental Yoga and Conscious Stretching can produce for most, if not all, people. Otherwise, certain power seeking individuals who know little about the true essence of yoga will eventually be regulating and controlling it.

In the long run, Regulation ALWAYS drives up prices and, in the longer run, decreases quality, innovation, and availability to the consumer. It very often destroys the essence of the regulated practice, whatever it is. The rising levels of dissatisfaction with so-called Modern Medicine and the practice of Law illustrate this all too clearly. They are prime examples of the problems arising from state regulation and state-created monopolies of otherwise noble Arts & Sciences that are, in their higher forms, essential to Life and Community.

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Thank You For Reading,
Take Care,
David Scott Lynn
DSL: Your Hi-Touch Up-Link to the Inner-Net