Body as Teacher

Wellness encompasses our body, as well as the energy and thoughts we experience. Yet creating a yoga practice for yourself or for others that supports body, mind, and energy can be challenging without a wide range of methods to choose from.

Body as Teacher: On-the-Mat Yoga is a guide to yogic methods that, when woven together, help reveal innate wisdom, whether you practice on a mat, in a group yoga class, or anywhere movement becomes part of your life.

Inside, you'll find nearly 100 Hatha poses, including gentle, seated, reclined, and prop-supported variations, alongside 100 complementary practices of breathwork, meditation, mudras, mantras, and gazes. Every pose and practice includes clear cautions, benefits, alignment cues, sequencing options, and subtle energetic effects.

Go beyond foundational yoga to explore somatic and functional principles, Ashtanga, Kundalini, Qigong, Yin, Yoga Nidra, Indigenous wisdom traditions, and the ways subtle energy may influence your Ayurvedic constitution and chakra system.

Because there is rarely one ideal sequence for every body, the Fusion Method offers a flexible framework that evolves with your changing needs-helping you create a practice you'll enjoy returning to while cultivating lasting resilience. The Guru is You: Off-the-Mat Yoga is the philosophy and inner-work companion to this book. Together, these two books comprise the Fusion Method.