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Mark Stephens

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After dabbling in yoga in my teens (1970s!), I've been passionately devoted practicing yoga since January 1, 1991, and since January 1, 1996 I've been equally passionate in sharing yoga as a personal practice for making every moment of one’s life better – healthier, clearer, and altogether more joyful. While Yoga Journal referred to me as "the teacher's teacher," I steadfastly believe that the best teach you will ever have is inside of you. At the same time, with practice and study, we can offer meaningful guidance to others, and this is precisely the intention in my textbooks for yoga teachers: Teaching Yoga (2010/2024), Yoga Sequencing (2012), Yoga Adjustments (2014) Yoga Therapy (2017), and Yoga for Better Sleep (2019.) I now writing a ...more

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Mark Mark said: " In much if not most of the secondary yoga literature, yoga is presented as if arising in a hermetically sealed vacuum called ancient India. But on closer examination, we find that as with most cultures everywhere and across time, cultures are profoun ...more "

 

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“yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce”
Mark Stephens, Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes

“The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.”
Mark Stephens, Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques

“Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: “If you want to learn something,” he says, “read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!” (Bhajan).”
Mark Stephens, Teaching Yoga

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2025 & 2026 Readi...: Fancy Nancy's Corner Nook 9 32 May 01, 2014 07:10AM  
“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.”
Mark Stephens, Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques

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