Yoga
with Scott MacLeod
412 478 0116
scott@scottmacleod.com

Imaginative ~ Freeing ~ Easing ~ Integrative

Eudaimonia (personal flourishing) is ‘Flow’ & Bliss
Eudaimonia is Flow & Bliss

This yoga is imaginative, freeing, and nourishes well-being. I like to use metaphor and consciousness to create an inwardly-focused, releasing and easing learning process. Yoga here is also integrating and transformative, as well as gentle, fun and healing. And it can be deeply enjoyable ~ pleasurable.

We'll creatively explore a wide range of positions, inner and outer movement, partner work, breathing, and meditation, as well as ideas and thinking / reasoning (in the context of naturalism). But I like, in particular, to explore regenerative and restorative poses meditatively.

I enjoy engaging Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten’s approaches to yoga (see web site below) to shape my own gentle and exploratory approach. I have a teaching certificate from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, and have taught for 10 years.

2008

Mondays, 5:30-6:30
Next classes: to be announced
at the Homewood Library, upstairs Meeting Room
7101 Hamilton Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15208

Thursdays, 5:30-6:30
Next classes: to be announced
at the C.C. Mellor Edgewood Library / Club,
One Pennwood Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15218

• For beginners and experienced practitioners

• Please bring a yoga mat, a belt and a block (available, for example, at your local food co-op, R.E.I., Whole Foods or Hugger Mugger online)

- Private yoga instruction available

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Resources (library and other)

Yoga courses with Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten: angela-victor.com/work.html

- Angela and Victor insightfully teach a kind of inner body exploration and flow which is very enjoyable and creative.

Benson MD, Herbert and Miriam Z. Klipper. 2000 (1972). The Relaxation Response. Expanded updated edition. Harper.

- Steps to elicit the relaxation response:
web.archive.org/web/20050215214204/relaxationresponse.org/steps/

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi. 1991. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper Perennial.

Iyengar, B.K.S. 2001. Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Mehta, Silva, Mira Mehta and Shyam Mehta. 1990. Yoga: The Iyengar Way. London: Knopf.

National Institutes of Health - health.nih.gov

Ornish, Dean, M.D. 1995. Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery. Ivy Books.

- Dean Ornish's research (WebMD.com) originates from a yoga perspective. A very low-fat, delicious, vegetarian-centered, natural foods diet, exercise, stress reduction and community may have numerous other health benefits, besides reversing heart disease. This book has good recipes, as well.

Rorty, Richard. 1989. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Seligman, Martin. 2004. Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. Free Press.

Shankar, Ravi. 2000 (1956). Three Ragas. Angel Records.
Free at rhapsody.com

Weil, Andrew, M.D. 2006. Integrative medicine web site. Accessed online 2008. www.drweil.com

- The search field in Dr. Andy Weil's integrative / complementary medicine web site offers helpful health information. Check out, for example, "wellness diet" or "mediterranean diet."

Yee, Rodney. 1998. A.M. Yoga for Beginners. Living Yoga (video). ASIN:0945671873

- This is a helpful video with which to begin to develop an enjoyable practice.

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