Dear David,

Thank you for your workshop in Chicago. I so enjoyed your teachings and insights. In particular, I am grateful to learn about the practice of engaging Jalandhara Bandha during forward bends. I started practicing yoga years ago to relieve chronic upper back and neck pain, and have been so frustrated to find that, at times, yoga has actually seemed to make this problem worse. After just five days of utilizing this new form--chin lock during forward bends--I am amazed at how much better my back and neck feel already. I also really notice a difference in my meditative focus and energy by keeping all three bandhas engaged.

You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you so very much.

-Jamie

Dear David,
Thank you for your workshop in Chicago. I so enjoyed your teachings and insights. In particular, I am grateful to learn about the practice of engaging Jalandhara Bandha during forward bends. I started practicing yoga years ago to relieve chronic upper back and neck pain, and have been so frustrated to find that, at times, yoga has actually seemed to make this problem worse. After just five days of utilizing this new form--chin lock during forward bends--I am amazed at how much better my back and neck feel already. I also really notice a difference in my meditative focus and energy by keeping all three bandhas engaged.

You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you so very much.

Jamie

David, I enjoyed the Ashtanga Yoga for Life workshop in birmingham AL, as well as being in same class as Jeanne.
Thanks for doing workshops close to where we live, and please continue doing these workshops.  We really enjoy.

I am using Ashtanga Yoga for Life as a guide in leading 4 classes per week at the community center where I am a volunteer yoga teacher.

Thanks again and thanks to the Birmingham Ashtanga yogis hosting.
Quentin

David,
I attended your workshop in Birmingham last weekend with my daughter, Laura, and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the experience. As a 67 year old newcomer to yoga, I'll admit that I was a little apprehensive, but your method and the message helped put me at ease.
Thank you,
Jeanne

Hola David,

I think that all of us here have taken you for granted.

We were having a Jivamukti event this past week, today is the last day.  V (a student who came to your workshop) and I were talking about you last night, the way you teach us to practice, the nonharming attitude and the understanding of it.  The practice that is being taught now at this Jivanmukti workshop has been very hard for me to deal with.  It is brutal on the body and her adjustments are very VERY aggressive.  I have felt throughout the whole week that I am promoting something I am against and I have not enjoyed it.  My back is hurt and my heart is hurt by the whole dynamics of it.  I am happy it is over.  I am not sure if it is the system or the teacher or maybe both.  I guess it is a reminder of what I really want from my practice and to be loyal to it.

I miss your classes.

A

I attended David's workshop in Columbus, Ohio in the spring of 2009. It was by far the best, most informative Yoga training I have had...and in only a few days!!! My friend, Steven Ellman, who studied with David in Hawaii, told me about it and I am glad he did.

Before beginning Yoga in 2006, I had 31 years of debilitating back pain. I was told twice that I needed surgery for spinal stenosis and a herniated disk and piece of disk that lodged under a nerve. Yoga has basically "cured" me of any significant back problems. I have no flairups at all anymore!

Since the workshop, Salutations A and B have become regulars in my practice and in all the classes I teach. Personally, my flexibility has improved dramatically since I started doing them as David prescribed (same as P Jois gave you!). Also, many of David's sayings have become part of my sayings in my effort to get participants to have NO PAIN during Yoga class and to make Yoga practice a part of their lives from here on after!
 
I plan on making the Savannah workshop in May of 2010 if I can. Thanks for helping me David, and thanks from all those who take Yoga class from me!
 
 
Carl Dipman
Blacklick, Ohio