Resources

• Chants (and Podcasts)
• YouTube Videos
• Suggested Reading
• Articles
• Blog

Chants and Podcasts

• Guru Brahma
• Ashtanga Opening Mantra
• Ashtanga Closing Mantra (Mangala Mantra)
• Teaching Mantra (Saha na vavatu)
• AsatomaSatGamaya
• 10 Minute Mindfulness Meditation
• Surya Namaskara A Pose Names Pronunciation
  
• Surya Namaskara B Sanskrit Pronunciation

Video Tutorials

• Teacher Training with Ally Ford
• Strengthen your core (A very effective core exercise)
• Ally demonstrates Supta Kurmasana (Ashtanga Primary series)
• Ally demonstrates jumping to Bakasana (Ashtanga 2^nd series)
• Ally demonstrates Eka Pada Sirsasana (One leg behind the head, Ashtanga 2^rd series)
• Ally demonstrates handstand
• Ally demos Ashtanga 2^nd series
• How to teach padmasana (full lotus pose)

Suggested Reading

• The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
• The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali:
  • Four Chapters on Freedom by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
  • Commentary by Swami Satchidananda
• Yoga Mala by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
• Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar
• The Heart of Yoga by TKV Desikachar
• Health, Healing and Beyond. Yoga and the Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya by TKV Desikachar and RH Cravens
• Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul by David Life and Sharon Gannon
• Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual by David Swenson
• Ashtanga Yoga As It Is by Matthew Sweeney
• Bhagavad Gita:
  • A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell
  • Translation and commentary by S. Radhakrishnan
• The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Commentary and Translation by Swami Muktibodhananda
• The Principal Upanisads translation/commentary by S. Radhakrishnan, Harper Collins
• Upanisads translation by Patrick Olivelle, Oxford University Press
• Anatomy:
  
  • Anatomy of Hatha Yoga by H. David Coulter
  • The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long

Articles

• The Goal of Yoga
• Healthy Practice For A Healthy Pregnancy
• Insight Through Injury