Leslie Kaminoff on the rise of fitness yoga

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 9 p.m.

b'Leslie Kaminoff is a straight talking yoga teacher who has been around long enough to have seen the tremendous shift in how yoga is practiced and perceived in the US. In this follow up to their previous conversation about the history and future of the Yoga Alliance, Leslie shares his background and yoga origin story. He and Mado also discuss the ways in which the birth of the fitness industry paved the way for what we in the west know yoga to be today. \\xa0 Episode Highlights: \\xa0 Leslie\\u2019s recommendations for people looking to work as a full-time yoga teacher Leslie\\u2019s personal yoga story\\xa0 How the rise of the fitness industry directly influenced yoga as we know it in the US\\xa0 Whether someone is or isn\\u2019t doing \\u201creal yoga\\u201d if they came to yoga through fitness\\xa0 Thoughts on the Yoga Alliance\\u2019s new standards\\xa0 The origin of the Leslie\\u2019s esutra email list and the original dialogue he started around the Yoga Alliance standards years ago\\xa0 Links & Resources \\xa0 Join the Yoga Teacher Resource Email List and Get 100 Yoga Class Themes Free Leslie Kaminoff\\u2019s Yoga Anatomy website\\xa0 Episode 46: Leslie Kaminoff on Teaching Standards and the Yoga Alliance Episode 60: Yoga Alliance CEO on their new standards with Shannon Roche Leslie\\u2019s public statement after new standards announced E-sutra post with original Yoga Alliance dialogue'