Dennis will be presenting a 3 hour discourse at Prana Yoga in La Jolla for the second time in the last two years. These discourses are part of Yoga Works Teacher Training curriculum.
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Sanskrit: Haṭhayoga Pradīpikā, हठ योग प्रदीपिका) is a classic Sanskrit manual on hatha yoga, written by Svami Svatmarama, [...]
(parsh-voh-tahn-AHS-anna)
parsva = side, flank
ut = intense
tan = to stretch or extend.
One of our beloved Fearless Diamond/Fluid Soul Series top ten postures. A balancing posture and very deep hip/ hamstring stretcher.
The energy that is created from this standing posture often leads us into a complete balancing posture, which [...]
Butternut Squash Soup
This soup is a flavorful winter soup made without milk. Easy and quick to make, it’s also colorful and rich without being heavy. Consisting of only vegetables and spices it is truly a healthy “comfort food”. Both the ginger and the coriander in the soup improve digestion and absorption as well as [...]
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Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (November 18, 1888 – February 28, 1989)was an Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. Often referred to as “the father of modern yoga,”Krishnamacharya is widely regarded as one of the most influential yoga teachers of the 20th century and is credited with the revival of hatha yoga.
Krishnamacharya held degrees in [...]
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B. K. S. Iyengar -(Born December 14, 1918, in Bellur, Kolar District,[1] Karnataka, India) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga, although he himself would not call it Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. He has [...]
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Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois (July 26, 1915– May 18, 2009) was an Indian yoga teacher. He was a student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and taught at his school, the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, in Mysore, India. Pattabhi Jois is widely acknowledged as this generation’s master of ashtanga yoga. [...]
Continue Reading →Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a system of yoga popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois, and which is often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga.[1] Pattabhi Jois began his yoga studies in 1927 at the age of 12, and by 1948 had established an institute for teaching the specific yoga practice known as Ashtanga [...]
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Thinking and Thoughts “Disconnecting from the Drama”
Thoughts and thinking are such an intrinsic and dominating aspect of our experience, we seldom stop to consider their influence in our lives. We’re thinking nearly all the time reliving or recasting what has happened in the past; planning or projecting out into the future; or [...]
I would first like to start this article by defining a simple difference between Bulimia and Anorexia in addition to explaining some of the side affects of these two devastating eating disorders.
Anorexia, strictly defined, is the restriction of food, bringing one’s weight to at least 15 percent below what is considered “normal” [...]
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People have been living on Santa Catalina Island for at least 7,000 years. Archaeologists excavating on a limited scale at Little Harbor on the seaward side of the Island for the past 40 years keep coming up with earlier and earlier dates. They find evidence of increasingly complex material cultures with [...]
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