Vanda Scaravelli

What's your favorite book?

My favorite book is actually a book called Awakening the Spine by Vanda Scaravelli, who is a, was an Italian yoga teacher, and she was the one who really introduced me all those years ago to a different way of thinking compared to how Pilates had been presented to me.

So a lovely book.

Really recommend it.

I've kind of got two anecdotes that I share in my own teacher trainings.

In my yin yoga teacher trainings, we spend a lot of time on exactly this point.

How can you teach many people in a functional approach? The first is imagine you go to a doctor.

You've got a really bad migraine, and you arrive in the doctor's office, and the doctor's running late, and there's 19 other patients waiting there.

But I'm the one on the plane.

I have to take responsibility for landing the plane safely.

Doctors, accountants, lawyers, yoga teachers, they're ground control.

They may know more about your body than you do, but you're the one on the plane.