Introduction to the Website:

I'm Sam Dworkis and I've been teaching yoga as my full-time profession for nearly 40 years. I've both studied and taught yoga throughout North America, in Europe and India. Through the years, I've been on an amazing journey and it has led me to think about yoga in a unique and different way than the vast majority of both my younger and contemporary colleagues.

Life has presented me with a number of defining opportunities and challenges, each of which has allowed me to look at yoga differently than the way I had been taught; and each of these defining opportunities and challenges inspired me to write my three books:

After 20 years of practice and study, I wrote my first book, ExTension Yoga (Simon & Schuster), partly due to my experiences of taking classes in India, and partly because so many people were getting hurt trying to do yoga from books. ExTension Yoga shows how any given yoga exercise (asana) can be safely practiced by normally healthy people regardless of their flexibility, strength, endurance, or age. Using abundant photographs and text, I explain how normally flexible people, tight people, and very flexible people, regardless of age, can successfully practice yoga while honoring their individual capacity to do exercise. Click here to enter the free-access area for ExTension Yoga.

A few years later, I wrote my second book, Recovery Yoga (Random House) partly from my experience as a yoga teacher working with chronically injured and ill students; and mainly from my own personal experience with chronic illness and injury. The book explains why and shows how injured, chronically ill, and aging people should adapt yoga exercises so they can promote healing and at the same time avoid compromising or exacerbating their condition. Click here to enter the free-access area for Recovery Yoga.

My latest book, The Mechanics of Yoga (which is the main part of this website), incorporates aspects from both of my previous books and ties them together in a way that directly affects you, no matter the style of yoga you practice or how flexible or tight you are or even if you are ill, injured or aging.

The Mechanics of Yoga is fully accessible on this website for a one-time $9 access fee. Thereafter, you will have full unlimited access to The Mechanics of Yoga and can print any chapter you wish. Also included in your access fee is a user forum where you can interact directly with me and other readers. You also have access to videos where I demonstrate some of the unique remedial exercises I've developed through the years. Click here to enter the free-access area for The Mechanics of Yoga.

Sam

 

The free sections of the website contain access to excerpts from all three of my books, how to purchase them, and how to study with me.

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This yoga-instructional website is entirely user supported and unlike other
major yoga websites, we do not rely upon, nor do we allow, advertising of any kind. 
Contributions to maintain this website are always appreciated.