The Body's Grace: Insights from a Paralyzed Yoga Teacher

I tried to get in one of his classes. I went to a regular yoga class for a while, the assumption was made that you knew yoga terms before starting, not true in my case. While I could do a lot of the poses they usually required me to see them first and figure out a way modify them to work for me. Matthew Sanford would be going a lot slower. The tai chi class I went to was much better.

The Body's Grace: Insights from a Paralyzed Yoga Teacher

"Matthew Sanford says he's never seen anyone live more deeply in their body -- in all its grace and all its flaws -- without becoming more compassionate toward all of life. He's a renowned teacher of yoga. And he's been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978, when he was 13. He teaches yoga to the able-bodied. He also adapts yoga for people with ailments and disabilities, including military veterans. But Matthew Sanford has wisdom for us all on the strength and grace of our bodies, as we move through the ordinary span of our lives." { read more }