How to use props, modify, and customize your practice
In this Podcast I discuss the following positive facts about using props and modifying: 1) Props (modifying) helps you build strength and flexibility by enabling you to specifically target desirable ...
14 Jan 202241min
Dear DG, Question and Answer
In this podcast, David answers students questions. 2:20 - I've got a question about pranayama. I've done your Ashtanga Pranayama Sequence video course, and I just want to clarify things with the Jal...
19 Nov 20211h 5min
Do Your Practice and All Is Coming???
In this podcast I discuss the often misinterpreted Ashtanga saying: “Do your practice and all is coming”. I go into detail about the different important meanings of Abhyasa, the Sanskrit word for pra...
13 Okt 202154min
New Ideas for Adjustments in Ashtanga
In this podcast I speak how, in Ashtanga yoga, physical adjustments have been the exclusive means of correcting a pose whereas giving verbal cues or using props to adjust have been tabooed or discoura...
19 Aug 202148min
Yoga Sutra 3:17: Why Words Matter
Join me and Peg Mulqueen as we discuss Yoga Sūtra 3.17: There is a natural confusion of words, meanings, and our own conceptual experience that arises when we superimpose one upon the other. But with ...
18 Jun 202158min
Tapas: Honoring the Old and Embracing the New
Tapas or discipline is a central aspect of daily practice that each yogi must struggle to embrace and make peace with. In this podcast I discuss the value of older, harsher ideas of tapas and the evol...
7 Mai 202149min
Avoiding the Trap of Perfectionism
One of the greatest things in the world is to work to perfect a pose or anything you choose. By perfect I mean to be involved in a process of improving, tinkering, seeking to go further in any small o...
2 Apr 202154min
The Fight of the Ages: Pain vs Creativity
In this podcast I speak about pain and creativity as an unlikely pair of opposites, a closely connected duo that are fated to coexist within me and to play off of each other in an ongoing battle for s...
10 Mar 202139min
