10 Principles

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The 10 Principles of Maximizing Results
While Minimizing Injury
in the Practice & Teaching of Yoga

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An Introduction to the
10 Principles of Maximizing Results
While, With the Very Same Principles,
Minimizing Injury
in the Practice and Teaching of Yoga

Over the years, as I was teaching my FUNdamentals of Yoga course to various people, it slowly dawned on me that a modified — though very related — set of principles was emerging for people who were in need of a more healing and therapeutic level of yoga.

It also became clear, in part from feedback from Private Clients, that these same principles should be applied for Preventive Practices, for those wishing to keep their accumulations of  C.E.M.&N.T. (Chronic, Excess Muscle & Nerve Tension) to a minimum level.

Restorative Yoga, developed in great part by B.K.S. Iyengar, and his partner Gita, is good for many and certain situations, especially high-trauma and injury. But though very useful, that approach was too static, passive and somewhat limited for most of what I was looking for to help most of my Private Therapy Clients & Students. Though they had long-term problems, most of them were more-or-less functional, and needed just a little less static asana than the restorative approach for their therapeutic needs.

(When I say more-or-less functional, they might have been in constant pain, with many things they could not do, but they could still get to work, do their jobs, and the like. They very often had quite a wide range of motion. It might have been exhausting or very NOT fun, but they could at least get around.)

I was looking for an approach that integrated all aspects of what I knew about the healing aspects of yoga, and integrating what I had learned from the hands-on aspects of my Private Sessions. I started to piece it together, much of it working on my own muscular problems, and then, since it worked so well for me, trying it out with Clients. … with excellent results.

As I developed the system, some of my Clients started telling me that since it worked so good for helping them get OUT of trouble, should not they have been doing the same things to KEEP them from getting INTO trouble in the first place? … HMMMM …

REALLY Good Point. … It's really true that if we are really paying attention to who we are teaching, they will often teach us far more than we teach them.

So I started to realize that EVERYONE, if not already doing something similar, needed to learn this new approach, and use it on a regular basis, as a way of preventing long-term problems. Not that they needed to do this exclusively, but as a balance to the more aggressive exercise systems and/or yoga practices out there, like traditional Iyengar, Ashtanga, Power, etc.

Ironically, I also started getting a number of Private Clients who were themselves yoga teachers and were developing physical problems to the point of not being able to teach or even DO yoga without pain or other limitations. … I realized that certain aspects of the way they were doing yoga was causing their problems. They soon, with my help, figured it out too, although at first, they did not want to believe that their yoga was actually causing their conditions.

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And, the more they were experiencing problems with pain, posture and/or dysfunction, the more they had to lean toward the more relaxing end of the yogic spectrum that I advocate in this element of The DSL Method of Let-Go Yoga.

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David Scott Lynn
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