Our next Yogaland Book Club selection is...
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Hi everyone!
I’m super duper excited to announce our next book club selection. It is…
Yoga for Bendy People: Optimizing the Benefits of Yoga for Hypermobility by Libby Hinsley.
This. Book. Is. Phenomenal. And so needed in the yoga community.
Libby is a long-time yoga practitioner (now a teacher) who spent some years doing a hot vinyasa practice that just…made her feel like crap. She found her way to the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, India (this is the center founded by TKV Desikachar) and it profoundly changed her practice for the better. She also became a physical therapist and got a diagnosis of Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
Suffice it to say, she is the expert on yoga for hypermobility. And, beyond that, the book is so well-written and well-organized. As a former editor, I have a really hard time not editing things in my head while I’m reading! When I read something and think, “Wow, I have no notes!” it gives me a thrill and I’m grateful. That’s how I felt reading Libby’s book.
So, go git it! And get started. Libby and I are working out the details of when she will come talk to our book club and I will post those soon.
For some added inspiration, Libby is the guest on the podcast next week. I’ll give you a heads’ up when it’s live!
Have a great weekend, everyone. XO.
I couldn’t participate in the previous book club, but now I’m in...
I do admire your work, Andrea. Kisses from Brazil!
I was excited to order the book because I new it would help me better understand how to create a well rounded class for the adults I teach who are neurodiverse. Many have extremely hyper mobile bodies. BUT! Then I listened to your podcast with the author and discovered a whole new world for my family! Sensations. The need to make the body give physical feedback. Huge avenues for us to research and learn about the correlation between very hyper mobile individuals and anxiety, low energy levels and deep loneliness and depression. I am so hopeful for my family member. I am hopeful to learn more about this as possibly partly physiological rather than only seen as psychological. Thank you for selecting this book. I feel like a window is opening.