YogasAnalysis™
Yoga • Asana • Analysis
Page 2 • In-Depth
The following is an in-depth description
of what YogasAnalysis™ is all about . . .
Well, for certain aspects of doing yoga, allowing the analytical mind to quite down can be VERY beneficial, even necessary. Yet, from a Western Perspective (or a East/West, integrative, Third Perspective as Joel Kramer phrased it), yoga is, among many things, about maximizing Being Human in ALL its aspects. Reading literature written by so-called masters of yoga from the East reveals they were VERY accomplished, VERY analytical thinkers. Many of them were indeed great intellects.
In fact, the very act of translating an subjective experience into words on paper is BY DEFINITION an objective, thinking process. The CONTENT might be subjective, but the OPERATION — putting feelings to words to letters on paper — is objective.
Yes it is true that real meditation, including integrating the meditative mind into physical yoga, requires the slowing or stopping of the rational, analytical process. But only in the most extreme interpretations is its elimination all together encouraged. (As if it were really possible.)
However that might be . . . Let us take a look at the word Analyze (or Analysis) when broken down into its parts:
- Ana = Apart
- Lysis = To Loosen
So the word Analysis means, literally, to Loosen Apart, which, if you ask me, is a perfectly Yogic activity. In order to master yoga, we must get in touch with the individual parts — individual neuromuscular units — to be able to make them work as a whole, unified entity. The more we can feel, isolate and activate unique neuromuscular units, the more they will work in harmony.
Ask any musician who has tried to play a complex piece without first perfecting the individual elements, the individual notes. … Never happens, except it appears to in the rare prodigy who can discern the elements in a far shorter time than most of us can.
(Yes, I know, there is the other extreme, where analysis can get TOO linear and totally removed from the real, in-the-moment experience — as in Too Much In Your Head. There ARE those who tend to mistake the Map for the Territory, or the Menu for the Food. But that is more a matter of excessive degree rather than basic necessity, and is something you can learn to work with, and is a yogic exploration in and of itself.)
Loosening Apart the BodyMInd
We use Hatha, the physical yoga, to relax and loosen the body. We use Jnana, the mental yoga, to relax and loosen the mind. The best is when they are working together in a perpetual dance, trading places for running the show for moments — short or long — at a time, as appropriate to the activity or task at hand.
BUT, as the old saying goes, you don't want to be so open that your brains fall out.
The Head without the Heart, is Barren;
The Heart without the Head, is Chaos.. . . Joel Kramer
- The Thinking Mind is good for some things, not so good for others.
- The Meditative Mind is good for some things, not so good for others.
The trick is getting them to work in harmony with each other, in a cooperative way. One or the other gets out of the way when the other should be dominant. This includes one or the other of them shutting up altogether for a while now and then, depending on the occasion and task or activity at hand.
And that is what we are doing with Let-Go Yoga, loosening the BodyMind to make it more resilient and available for movement and energy flows, to be more Open to Life. As each part begins to function and move more independently, it becomes more available and capable of integrated movement with the rest of the bodymind.
PRINCIPLE-based, Rather Than DATA-based
Creating Postures out of No-Thing
There is nothing inherently wrong with Data, as in, follow a particular predetermined prescription. There is nothing inherently wrong with a Follow-the-Leader approach to performing yoga asana.
Yet there are significant limitations on this approach. It tends toward "Make the Student fit the Posture", with certain modifications of the posture. What The DSL Method is all about is to make the posture, or asana, fit the Student. Or create a whole new one out of nothing, to meet their needs.
Up till recently, most people in the yoga world lean toward a more kinesthetic experience of life. This is, of course, changing, as more linear oriented people come into the field. But I want to serve both groups of people. And frankly, although most people tend to think I'm a pretty linear kind of guy, I really do much better when I start with non-linear, kinesthetic, and visual basics. If I get those first, then it is far easier for me to learn the bits and pieces of data and technical stuff.
So in YogasAnalysis™, we get all the way down to the fundamentals of joint and bone movement, and the muscles and tendons that produce movement or stabilize the body, how muscles and fascia interact, how ligaments work, and so on.
Developing An Internal, Visual, Kinesthetic Picture
But we start with what's relevant to YOU in the real world. When someone walks into your classroom, and they are slouching or bent over and twisted, what's going on?
We start with your visual picture and kinesthetic, feeling sense of what's going on in their bodymind in ways you can relate to, then work inward and outward from there to fill in the technical details. And if you start learning to mimic or recreate someone's posture and movement in your own body, you'll start developing an internal, more kinesthetic database of what's happening for them, and IN them, and for many other people at the same time.
When starting with the Visuals and Kinesthetics, most people can learn much better that way.
In doing this, you will, over time, then be able to look at ANY asana, or human posture, or exercise, or movement, and, with time, instantly KNOW what's going on in any one person in any exercise or stretch. … You'll also be better equipped to know whether or not what they are doing is helping, or hurting, their progress.
Mastering this Art & Science will, of course, take time. However, you will immediately begin to see and feel more deeply into asana, exercise and posture than you ever have before. For most people, this understanding starts to happen in their very first workshop or private session with DSL — (that's ME!)
And when we get the Videos going, that should give you an even better head start on the process.
Are You An Asana Artist?
It is well known that the most creative and successful artists in history spent many years perfecting their knowledge and skills with the technical fundamentals — the basics — of their art: their tools, their medium, and their manual techniques. Even most truly successful abstract artists built their foundation on classical principles first. … (Whether their art looks like it or not!)
In yoga, there is a definite Art & Science to understanding, creating, using and teaching asana. But you need the fundamentals, the Sciences, to be a true Asana Artist.
Its like doctors – and I've worked with quite a few. If I have to take a choice between a doctor who is an intuitive, healing artist or one who is a scientific, healing technician, I will probably choose the artist. BUT, if I can have the artist AND the technician all rolled up in the same package, THAT's the best deal of all.
It Is The True Artists Who Move Society Truly Ahead
And it is usually the more artistically and intuitively inclined who are willing to explore new territory, to push the envelope of what's possible, of what's real. Sometimes, probably often, they find themselves down a dead end. But the more technically inclined are usually less likely to deviate from the established pathways. So they have fewer dead ends, but fewer truly new discoveries, too.
It is the artistic explorers who usually find out first what's wrong or inaccurate with the existing paradigm or system, and find ways to change them, or create altogether new ones. In some ways they are the Myth-Creators, but along the way, they are often the Myth-Breakers, too.
And you might be surprised how many Myth-Conceptions abound in the yoga world. And these ideas that have been handed down through many generations, or created by people who are supposed to be world-renowned masters at what they do.
One of my favorite — I use the term loosely — examples is . . .
The Pelvic Tuck or Sacral Scoop
It goes by many names: Tuck the Pelvis, Scoop the Sacrum, Lengthen or Flatten the Lower Back, Drop the Sitz Bones, Drop the Rib Cage, Lift the Back Body, Pull the Belly Toward the Spine, Move the Tail Bone toward the Pubic Bone, or some other version of the same basic action with subtle variations and different names or cues.
It is taught as a principle of posture and movement in many forms of yoga, in Tai Chi, ballet, Pilates, physical therapy sessions, chiropractic therapy, and on and on.
What ever you call it, or how you describe it, I call it one of the . . .
Health Care Tragedies of the 20th Century
It's that big of a problem for way more people than most health care providers realize.
Closely related is the Near-Myth that crunches, or properly done sit ups, will support and/or stabilize the lower back. In reality, except in very rare instances, it does the exact opposite. And a group of chiroprators back in 1972 proved it with X-ray studies.
You DO get some increased stability via rigidity. But what we REALLY want is stability via fluidity.
But old ideas die hard. . . . (The only reason I figured it out for myself was my unusually varied background, which you can find out more about on my Bio/History page.)
We are told these movements will protect, support and stabilize the lower back. … Maybe true in the short term. But in the long run, the opposite is true. … But we (most of us, anyway) see with our brains, not our eyes. … So once we've been told something important by an authority figure, and we tend to believe it, we assume it's true and perceive everything through that conceptual filter, mythical or not.
We can even create the feeling in our body that it's true, too.
The Illusionary Myth-Conception
of Excess Lumbar Curve
And all the preceding is in great part because of the HUGE Myth-Conception that a large number of people have excess lordosis, or too much curve in their lower back, or forward tilted pelvis, or swayback, or whatever. Most of the time, these are MIS-diagnoses. … And one of the biggest causes of yoga injuries.
Even the slang term swayback has two different — AND OPPOSITE — meanings, depending on who uses it. This difference has caused a LOT of trouble for a LOT of people over the years.
There is an illusion created by the various curves of the back of the body that gives this false impression of excess lordosis. But it is not so, for the vast majority of people. In fact, I've worked with a number of people who were told by nationally recognized "experts" they were a classic, textbook example of excess lordosis. Only a few minutes were required to dispell this illusion — in front of a group who could clearly see what I was talking about. … As I showed them the illusion, then the reality.
And the problem is further complicated by the fact that, for example, when some people do Child's Pose, their back feels a lot better. For a while. Yet that movement is actually further flattening their lower back. But if their back is, like most people, already too flat to begin with, how good a strategy is that?
Yes, there IS temporary relief, because Childs Pose stretches the back muscles for a while. But it WILL make their problems worse in the long run, unless . . . unless . . .
Well, that's what you join an e-Course for, to find out all about those kinds of things.
But more people in different disciplines ARE getting wise to this. A very few people have been teaching something similar to what I am telling you for a couple of decades now.
When I started teaching it almost 20 years ago, almost everyone thought I was crazy! And they said so! … Now, increasing numbers of trainers, teacher and therapists are seeing the problems with this old and pervasive paradigm.
But I have been getting used to everyone telling me I was out of step. But when it keeps working, and working when those old approaches do not, I guess I'll settle for being crazy.
Follow The Leader . . . To Where?
Most of the time, asana are taught in the follow-the-leader method. The idea is to get really good at placing the body in the recommended positions; to achieve the so-called Proper Alignment as determined by your teacher, or the teacher's teacher. We are told you can't go wrong by following the ancient lineage.
But even the most adept at following instructions are often very limited in their depth of understanding of what's really happening and where they can go from where they are. Or how to get back when they have gone too far and caused problems or injury.
Ironically, it is often those who are best at re-creating the teachings of their lineage who are least capable of figuring out what to do when something goes wrong.
This is, again, where the one-size-fits-all approach breaks down, Big Time.
As you might know, a lot of people, when injured from yoga, stop doing yoga. And they just stop goign to class and never tell the instructor what happened. Yet that is your biggest opportunity to get some REAL learning about the fine points of yoga.
And how DO you get a Student or Client to get from here to there without risk of damage or injury?
The (Dangerous) Pursuit of Perfect Alignment
One problem with the traditional approach is that our minds tend to get very busy trying to remember what we are supposed to do with, where we are supposed to put, each body part.
One problem with this is we lose a meditative opportunity, because our minds are racing around trying to figure it out, rather than using the asana or posture as an opportunity to explore the unknown.
Worse, I have sat and listened for many hours to stories from people who witnessed — or personally experienced — this or that teacher or so-called master attempting to coerce, intimidate or physically force a student into a so-called Proper Alignment. A lot of the time, maybe even most of the time, it works out okay.
But often, this is the start of subtle, or not-so-subtle, problems. Sometimes, severe damage to the tissues is done. Not to mention Ego Issues. (When some people are highly identified with a particular master, it is very difficult for them to acknowledge fallibility in that master. The tendency is, for example, to go into denial and blame their own self for the master's imperfections, or faulty teachings of a yoga posture.)
It's Not Just Yoga . . .
Bodywork Can Mess Up, Too . . .
Just for the record, and to give you a better idea of whether I might be able to offer you insights that most others cannot:
In the years I was teaching my system of Yoga/Bodywork Therapeutics to massage and bodywork therapists, and a few physical therapists, I heard scary stories from them, as well.
After studying with me, they had realizations of why some of their Clients had been doing so well — or so they thought — then one day, all of a sudden, that Client ended up in the hospital, or at least flat on their backs, with severe pain, or a herniated disc, or whatever.
In a nutshell, when someone has sufficient structural imbalance, if you try to release their muscles without proper sequencing, you can push them into a big pain or dysfunction. This usually clears up in a few days or so, but not always.
Sometimes, in certain situations, if you release certain muscles AT ALL, the consequences can be severe. And it can happen with yoga, exercise, bodywork, physical therapy, you name it.
But FOR A WHILE, they are feeling A LOT better. …
Then, a Big Reaction might occur.
This happened to me many years ago, when I had a lot of pain. I was in a bodywork training program in which my muscles were released in the wrong order. But no one knew it: not the otherwise excellent instructor, not the other students who were already established therapists, not even me.
For a while, I was feeling much better. Then … I remember the day when I took a step … and was literally thrown on the floor with severe pain.
For three and a half years after that, when EVER I did yoga, I was more crippled, and in more agony, then before I started. I actually stopped doing yoga for a quite a while. And that was a Big Deal for someone who had done as much as two to four hours of yoga a day for extended periods of time over many years.
Ironically, I had already gotten rid of most of the pains I had had previous to this bodywork training program. But the sequence with which my classmates and instructor were releasing my muscles brought everything back with a vengeance.
Learning Some Inconvenient Truths About Yoga
It was not until I saw a near full body X-ray of my spine and pelvis that I realized I had been stretching ALL the EXACT wrong muscles. I was stretching the muscles that hurt, and not as much the ones that felt fine. Once I developed a clear picture of what was going on, I for the most part reversed that strategy, and things started getting better. … A LOT better.
Ironically, for the most part, the muscles that FELT FINE on one side were the very ones that were CAUSING the PAIN on the opposite sides of my body. (I had multiple injury patterns from several events which complicated it immensely.)
While the potential for injury is usually far less in the massage and bodywork world then in yoga, it does happen. There are important reasons for this, which you can learn more about in the e-Courses, when they are up and running.
The point, however, is that some of my student bodyworkers were themselves TEACHERS, traveling around the country, teaching techniques to other bodyworkers. AND, after studying with me, they concluded that much of what they had been teaching was the EXACT OPPOSITE of reality.
And these were nationally recognized groups, nationally certifying people in procedures that many of them now believe were very inaccurate or outright dangerous.
Certified . . . In What?
Although I hate to rattle cages, I firmly believe there are certification programs that are — right now — teaching un-safe procedures in BOTH the yoga and bodywork fields. And physical therapy, too. So do not assume that just because something was taught by a certified person or group, that it is necessarily correct or even safe.
Unless you are going to stick with the absolute basics, sticking with very low intensity and simplest postures, and not go beyond that, it would be a good idea to know a little more about these realities of how the body works, and how it does NOT work, as well as some of the problems that occur, and what to do about them.
Yes, some of these ideas work well enough for most people most of the time. But when certain individuals reach a certain level of compression or imbalance in their body, then all of a sudden that which they could do before … well, when it comes to the health and structural integrity of YOUR Students and Clients, you don't want to settle for statistical maybes.
All generalizations are false … including this one.
. . . George Bernard Shaw
So when someone says something like "I do that all the time with no problem" … well, that's them, … for now. Just like it was for ME … for a while.
I am offering you a wider and deeper understanding of the human bodymind so that the odds of such mistakes or errors are drastically reduced. And if something does happen, you'll have better ideas of what to do about it, and what not to do.
Now, I am NOT trying to get you into practicing medicine or physcial therapy without a license. However, I believe everyone should have at least a basic understanding of these concepts. It's better for you, better for your Students & Clients, and better for the profession and yoga as a whole.
Where REAL Yogic Alignment Comes From
Here is a great example of how I got started down this line of feeling, thinking and exploration of physical and mental yoga. It is from Eric Schifman, who also studied with my primary yoga teacher, Joel Kramer.
Eric, a highly accomplished Iyengar Yoga teacher, said this about his first experiences with Joel:
But when Joel taught me how to create a line of energy, suddenly all the intricacies that Iyengar had been talking about began happening by themselves. I would run energy down my arm, for example, and this skin would move this way, and that skin would move that way, and my little finger would move and my arm would rotate, just like Iyengar was saying. But instead of “me” doing it or being told what to do, it was coming from inside as a result of the energy flow. …
Suddenly I knew where Iyengar was coming up with all his information. He was being guided from within. I could now run energy through a line, feel what was happening, and then describe it to someone else as “Move here” or “Stretch that.” These were not the main event, but the effects, the incidentals, the froth on the wave. The main event was the energy flow and going after the feeling of perfect flow. …
The main thing was getting in touch with the within. Once you get that, it’s yours.
. . . Quoted from Erich Schiffmann in his popular book
Yoga: The Spirit & Practice of Moving into Stillness
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The Objective, then, is NOT to get you good at recreating someone else's yoga.
The objective is to help you discover principles what will make you into your own Master. Principles that will allow you to make your own discoveries and innovations, and tailor make what you are doing for yourself and your Students & Clients. Because everyone out there is a unique individual with their own unique history. They need unique solutions.
Now, The Truth is that yes, many people will end up requiring very similar or even identical solutions to their problems.
Yet I can tell you from almost 30 years experience as a yoga/bodywork therapist, THE MINUTE you start to think you can put ANYONE in a category, and treat them more-or-less the same as anyone else, you are treading on thin ice.
If something works 99 out of 100 times, as soon as you get used to that, and complacent, you increase the likelihood of missing that 1 out of 100 that does NOT fit that statistic. If they are your Client – as in under your protection (Webster's Dictionary Definition) – you must protect them from the tendency for all of us humans – including me and you – to categorize and generalize, to pigeon hole.
It's the Path of Least Resistance, you know.
Good for a lot of things, Bad for a few.
Nowadays, a lot of people are getting into yoga who would never have even thought about it before. People who have more problems, injuries, traumas, and so on than usual. Many carry issues that can react to the smallest movement in the wrong direction that is out of what is ordinary for them. … And for many of them, even the simplest yoga postures are WAY out of the ordinary.
So statistically speaking, it WAS easier to get by just doing your thing up there in front of the room. MOST people would be okay. Although I wonder how many yoga teachers know how many of their one time students — or regular students that got hurt one day — never came back again because they were in too much discomfort or pain afterwards? … And never sent a note to the teacher telling them why they have not returned.
I'm NOT trying to SCARE you. …
I'm just trying to point out the realities that we all must become more aware of. The neat thing is all this will bring a Whole New Dimension to your yoga, and your life. It's really interesting, and fun, too. If you pursue this, and if you have a Love of Learning, you will be quite busy, maybe for the rest of your life, figuring stuff out. …
… Gaining New Insights. … Being more helpful to people. … Sometimes changing their Lives. … Or even giving their life back to them. And that is where the biggest rewards are … being a REAL contribution to the well-being of other UNIQUE human beings, who need UNIQUE approaches and solutions to their UNIQUE situation in life. … Your Unique and Happy Clients and Students.
In fact, Joel Kramer once said that doing yoga was a Way of Learning at a very deep level. Joel is truly a Master of Learning at a deep level, although he's not very good at following tradition. Interestingly, though, even though some call him The Father of American Yoga, and The First American Yoga Master, he only attended one yoga class when he got started.
Although he freely admits that he got a lot of tips and tricks from various people along the way, the rest he pretty much figured out for himself. He kind of messes up the idea that you need to study an approved lineage to stay safe and sound . . .
The objective is to make you, as quickly as possible, your own authority in understanding, selecting, tailoring, and performing asana. You become more able to adjust someone in an asana for unique circumstances or conditions.
But David, Can't I Figure This Out Intuitively?
Yes … Theoretically … Maybe … Good Luck
And … How Much Time Do You Have?
As used here, in addition to the more physical aspects mentioned in the main article, YogasAnalysis™ is about merging our thinking and feeling experiences, or conceptual and meditative minds, to more deeply feel, see and understand and master our bodymind.
In Theory, we should be able to be so intuitively good at "Feeling What Is" that everything we really need to know becomes auto-magically available to our conscious selves.
Now, I have a few things to say to you about that. … But first, let me tell you a little bit about a friend of mine. …
Muscles Out Of Clay … Anatomy IN Clay
Mr. Jon Zahourek, who lives in Loveland, Colorado, is a Genius in Anatomy. Years ago, he began development of an amazing system for studying anatomy that has helped many people in all kinds of professions to learn anatomy and how the muscles interact with the bones. … And he never stopped development.
How he got started was with his own back pain. A long time ago, when he was an artist (actually, he still is, just at a higher level and a different way), he got interested in why he had so much back pain, and began to study the human body and it's structure. And these pains were such that they would throw him down to the ground in inconvenient places. … like while crossing Fifth Avenue in downtown New York City!
Long Story Short: He began building models of muscles with clay on plastic skeletons he made. He began studying musculoskeletal anatomy very meticulously, so he could make his models as realistic and precise as possible. By visually seeing in two dimensions out of books, then manually creating, in three dimensions, the muscles in clay, by hand, and placing them on the skeleton, he was able to get more in touch with his own body in new ways. … (I'm sure he attended many cadaver classes, too. but I don't know that for a fact.)
As a result, mental concepts and images formed in his thinking mind, combined with the feeling connection in his hands and eyes. (Yes, technically speaking, vision is actually a feeling, too.) He literally made new connections in his nervous sytem — he was developing an internal, kinesthetic map — that allowed him to feel his body in ways he had not been able to before. As he did, as a result of his new found internal awareness, his pains started to diminish.
As Joel Kramer says, in many aspects of life, the real awareness of something IS the change. It's not first I become aware of it, and then I change. In Joel's approach to yoga and meditation, awareness and action are an integrated phenomena, and occur together. In fact, in Yoga for the WEST of US, I state that this is one of THE defining features of Being Human. Yet because most of us are not conscious of this process, we do not make the best use of it.
And when you start to learn the BodyMind Physiology of how all this works, you will begin to see that that is NOT a metaphorical idea. It is a reality of how the nervous system — the Brain-Body Connection — actually works. Another thing you can look forward to when you Join the e-Course portion the of DSL Yoga Website.
To get back to the story, Jon developed a set of (approximately) half size plastic model skeletons — called Manikens™ – that are extremely anatomically precise. He began teaching classes where participants would learn, by hand, to use high-quality modeling clay to make replicas of various muscles and carefully place them on the skeletal models. In this way, his students could get a far deeper understanding — and FEELING via their hands — of how the muscles and bones of the bodymind work and interact, and how they break down.
Jon has been devleoping and refining his anatomical models — the Anatomiken™ System – ever since. In about 1995, we had nine of his model skeletons (they were over 900 dollars EACH at the time) in order to teach my bodywork students more about the muscles and how they interact with the bones. These classes were very successful in helping students get much more clarity on what was really going on in the bodies and muscles of their Clients. And you know what? … So did I. 
What I brought to my anatomy program, using Jon's models, was an extensive knowledge of the postural, functional and therapeutic elements of muscle and their actions that very few people appear to know very much about. Jon's models — plus my almost 30 years experience in all this stuff makes a great combination for you to learn from. As Jon's says on his website:
The Mind Cannot Forget What The Hands Have Learned
. . . Jon Zahourek
Anatomy In Clay
I won't go into this much right now, but I will say that it is truly amazing how many things that our experience tells us is one way, but the sciences say, Sorry, its NOT that way. Many things that FEEL one way are actually the opposite. In fact, it is often the EXACT opposite.
Why? One reason is that your human nervous system is primarily a Negative Feedback System.
How can that be? And why is that? Isn't that being negative? …
Well, to complicate things, the nervous system to a great degree measures the REACTIONS to events in the body, not so much the CAUSES. It also does not measure things in absolutes, it measures in relativities. There are also elements that selectively block various kinds of input, and that happens at the NON-conscious level, so you don't even know its happening*.
It's not that the body lies. Its just that the language our body speaks is Body Language, not English Language. We try to listen in the English Language, when we should be learning to listen in Body Language. … And yoga does a pretty good job of helping do that. But like most attempts at real and deep communication, its not perfect.
For example, with bad posture or muscle pain: There are certain distinctions that are pretty near impossible — if not impossible — to feel, understand and work with until you have actually seen the locations and layerings of the muscles. And now-a-days, you also have to understand the difference between muscles and fascia, because A LOT of stuff is being taught about fascia that I think is just not true.
All of those factors complicate everything quite a lot.
(* The difference between un-conscious and non-conscious is that with non-conscious structures, there are NO sensory pathways leading from certain parts of the body and connecting to the conscious part of the brain. Your conscious mind cannot directly access them, if at all. You can only get indirect feedback from them, at best.)
Experience Is An Expensive School
— Yet the Fool Will Learn In No Other –
What's THAT mean? … Am I calling anyone a fool? … NOPE. But …
Most of us have heard the old saying, Experience is the Best Teacher. … Well, for certain things, that's true. … Yet that seems to be an over-simplfied version of what one of our Founding Fathers, one of the first American Scientists, Ben Franklin, is reputed to ACTUALLY have said, as quoted above.
The point is that it is one thing to have to learn everything from experience, and certain things we must. Riding a bicycle is an example. HOWEVER, Life Is WAY Too Short as it is, and much of life's experience WAY too costly, to rely 100 percent on experience to gain what we need to learn how to live in peace and freedom and prosperity, too. It's just WAY too inefficient to do it that way.
So here's the thing. When you head on over and read the Biographical History of how The DSL Method of Yoga & Bodywork was developed, you will probably come to, among others, a particular conclusion. That being, it would take a LONG time to re-create the wide range of experiences I have had over the last four or five decades. And I assure you: SOME of those experiences you would NOT want to have. They were too painful, or in other ways too costly. So why not learn without having to go through the time, expense and pain of all that?
The Point Being: As an Abstractor, and a Time-Binder, (two of the Core Philosophical Components of Yoga for The WEST of Us) I am delivering to you — if you want it — a package of experiences that took me a life-time to accumulate, sift through, analyze, and condense into a more-or-less workable and teachable package.
Now, I cannot guarantee you that EVERYTHING I have to teach is worth your while, nor that I am RIGHT about everything. So after, or before, you go to the History, check out my Testimonials, and see what a lot of Other People have to Say about whether what I say and do works or not. Then you can decide whether I am a good investment for your future.
Tying it all together will be BodyMind Physiology, learning how all the systems of the body interact and coordinate — most of the time — to produce the bodymind phenomena we deal with on a day-to-day and moment-to-moment basis.
And of course, there is the whole Experiential, Subjective Component:
- Playing the Edges of Pain, Fear & Resistance
- Integrating Thinking & Feeling Into the Meditative Mind
- Converting Our Inner Experience Into Outward Action
- Confronting Our Psycho-Emotional Barriers
- Communicating with Our Students & Clients Effectively
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