Yoga as Transformation Permanent Access Pass – Here Are Your Monday AM Sessions

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Cyndi Lee May I Be Happy—Teaching Yoga from the Inside Out

Yoga teachers are not born as yoga teachers, says Cyndi Lee. The path of yoga challenges us to become adept at yoga postures themselves. But it also challenges us to keep practicing with more refinement and more awareness to make our minds as flexible as our body, our heart as open as our hip joint. Drawing on her book, May I Be Happy, Cyndi shares examples of how we may encounter personal weaknesses we might prefer to ignore along the way. However, facing up to these might just be the greatest practice of all.

Cyndi Lee is the founder of the OM yoga Center in NYC, which grew to become a mecca for yogis worldwide. One of the most influential teachers in the U.S., Cyndi is known for her dynamic and contemplative classes, creative, safe and sane sequencing, smart and soulful teachings — all offered in a non-competitive environment of goodness. Cyndi is the author of several books on yoga, including her newest book, the New York Times critically acclaimed May I Be Happy. She also writes regularly for Yoga Journal, Shambhala Sun, and Tricycle Magazine, and is a frequent guest on national TV shows, including the Dr. Oz Show; Live with Regis and Kathie Lee; and Good Morning, America.

Robin Rothenberg: Yoga and Sacroiliac Joint Pain–Essential Precautions for Yoga Practitioners

Yoga can help heal low back pain, but unfortunately, if not practiced correctly, it can also create it: postural patterns can make people vulnerable to back issues, and if yoga teachers are not aware of these, some students will be at risk for injury. In this interview, Robin covers reasons why SI joint problems are so common in yoga, how we can identify predisposed students, and how we can work to prevent and even correct SI problems by strengthening to stabilizing the pelvis.

Robin Rothenberg is an internationally respected yoga therapist and has been training yoga teachers in the application of therapeutic yoga for over 20 years. She has been cited in numerous publications for her involvement in yoga research, particularly for her work with lower back pain. Robin uniquely combines her training in both the Iyengar and Viniyoga therapeutic traditions and her study in functional anatomy, which includes Tom Myers, Anatomy Trains model of the fascial lines and the importance of engaging the inner core to support lower back and pelvic health.

Colleen Saidman Yee: Yoga for Life – A Journey of Healing and Transformation: Opening to Your Inner Yoga – Moving Beyond Posture

The path of yoga is one of continuous learning, expansion, and transformation. In this interview, Colleen Saidman Yee discusses her own yoga journey and the path that lead her from a successful modeling career to being an internationally renowned yoga teacher teaching worldwide with her husband Rodney Yee. Colleen talks about how yoga can be a powerful path for releasing the residuals of past trauma in the body, and shares her insights into how to hold space and teach yoga in a way that truly embraces everyone in the class, no matter their age or level of experience. 

Colleen Saidman Yee is a graduate of Jivamukti’s 1998 teacher-training program and the founder of Yoga Shanti, in Sag Harbor, in 1999. Colleen and her husband Rodney are the authors of numerous popular yoga DVDs, and her work as a teacher has been highlighted in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York magazine, Oprah, Marie-Claire, Allure, and Yoga Journal. Together with her husband, Rodney, Colleen helped to create Urban Zen’s Integrative Yoga Therapist Program founded by Donna Karan’s worldwide initiative.

Doug Keller: Creating Health: The Prana Vayus and the Art of Healing

Western medicine often views the body as an unconscious machine: when something is broken, we need the right pill or operation to fix it. In the yogic tradition, Doug explains, we instead work with the vital life force, Prana, to enliven and balance the body. Each of the Prana Vayus is associated with a specific vital function of the body, and by working with these Vayus, we can improve these functions. Doug offers insight into the Vayus and how to regulate them in our own practice.

Doug Keller has extensive yoga training in the Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara yoga traditions, and is a sought-after teacher offering workshops worldwide. He is the author of Yoga as Therapy’and is on the teaching faculty at the Master’s Degree program in Yoga Therapy at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. Doug’s teaching is rooted in a vast and inclusive perspective of study and practice that honors the insights of the many streams of wisdom that flow into the river of yoga.

Doug Keller – The Psoas A Key to Healthy Posture and Safe Backbends

The psoas plays an important role in our daily posture and the health of our back. In this practice, Doug explores the role of the psoas and how it impacts alignment in yoga asana. He also takes you through a practice offerings ways to release the psoas.

Doug Keller has extensive yoga training in the Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara yoga traditions, and is a sought-after teacher offering workshops worldwide. He is the author of Yoga as Therapy’and is on the teaching faculty at the Master’s Degree program in Yoga Therapy at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. Doug’s teaching is rooted in a vast and inclusive perspective of study and practice that honors the insights of the many streams of wisdom that flow into the river of yoga.