Colorado Conference: Early Bird Deadline 2 weeks away!
If you haven't registered yet for the 15th Annual Colorado Conference, September 19-26, 2010, now is the time! Classes are filling up and there are only 2 more weeks to save with our Early Bird discount. Don't miss the 2nd Anusara Yoga Grand Gathering featuring Anusara founder John Friend, plus classes in all styles from our extensive roster of world-class presenters.  Krishna Das Concert: Buy Your Ticket Today! Join us for a special kirtan concert with Krishna Das at the upcoming Colorado Conference. 
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Save 15% off the Westin Spa and an additional 15% off at all hotel Restaurants when you attend the conference and stay at the beautiful Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa.
Join us as we return to Hollywood, Florida for another unforgettable beachside getaway November 11-14, 2010. Register now for the ultimate yoga getaway with 25+ top yoga teachers, 100+ classes, special events and a marketplace of products and services for healthy balanced living. We have something for everyone.  Teacher Spotlight: Julie Gudmestad Read more about one of our 40+ teachers that will be at the Colorado Conference and learn how her background brings a physical therapist's awareness to the teaching of yoga. Conference Video Watch the Yoga Journal Conference video and get a glimpse of what makes these events so special. Teacher Spotlight: Julie Gudmestad Editor's Note: Julie will be teaching 5 classes at the upcoming Colorado Conference. Click here for details. 
If you initially encountered me teaching or writing about anatomy or therapeutics, you may have guessed that I became a physical therapist before I discovered yoga. However, it's actually the other way around: I was a yoga student for several years before starting physical therapy school. Shortly after graduating from PT school in 1977, I took my first Iyengar yoga class. I was impressed then---and continue to be today---by the vast wealth of therapeutic knowledge contained in that system. I became Iyengar certified in 1988, and have continued since then to work on integrating western medical/anatomy understanding with the healing powers of yoga.
Today I own a small business that combines a physical therapy clinic with a yoga studio. My co-workers and I see physical therapy patients and use yoga techniques to help treat a variety of injuries and illnesses. We find that yoga breathing and relaxation techniques are especially helpful in pain management---our patients almost always leave a session feeling much better than when they arrived. Yoga stretching improves soft tissue (muscle, tendon, connective tissue, and even skin) flexibility, and holding the poses develops strength to help stabilize injured or unstable joints. We also like the fact that training and practicing good alignment in the poses can overflow into improved alignment in other activities, sports, and daily chores. Thus, the improved alignment and healthy movement patterns learned in yoga poses can help prevent chronic and recurrent problems. On the flip side, we bring a physical therapist's awareness to the teaching of yoga. We know how injuries occur; what joints, muscles and tendons are vulnerable; and what positions put abnormal strains on normal structures. This knowledge helps us teach the poses in a progressive way that allows students, even rank beginners and students with injuries, to gradually build the strength and flexibility and body awareness to eventually accomplish a variety of poses without injury. I like to make yoga and its wonderful healing powers accessible to students of all levels, and like to teach with the sense of meeting people where they are. For their part, the students have the opportunity to be fully present with who they are today, warts, weaknesses, injuries, and all. I believe this honesty, presence and integrity in practice opens the door not only to better health, but also to the meditative aspect of asana practice. Stay Connected with Yoga Journal Conference 
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