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“Instead of more detachment,
humanity needs better forms of attachment.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>\u2014<\/span>Diana<\/span><\/p>\r\n

“Tradition is important just as history is important –
not as a vice to squeeze the present into,\u00a0but rather as a stepping stone to grow from.”\u00a0
<\/strong><\/b>\u2014<\/span>Joel in “A New Look at Yoga”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Joel Kramer<\/strong>\u00a0is considered a founder of modern American yoga for his seminal contributions to re-visioning yoga in the West. A pioneering innovator of physical and mental yoga, his evolutionary vision of yoga is foundational for many of today\u2019s teachers. His \u00a0book\u00a0The Passionate Mind: A Manual for Living Creatively with One’s Self\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1974) is based on talks\u00a0guiding people in inner inquiry. His early\u00a0Yoga Journal<\/em>\u00a0articles, the influential \u201cYoga as Self-Transformation<\/strong>\u201d (1980) and \u201cA New Look at Yoga<\/strong>\u201d (1977), present his original mind\/body approach. Many of its principles \u2013 being guided from within, playing the edge, yoga as self-exploration, lines of energy \u2013 have become an integral part of modern yoga.
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Joel was on the resident faculty at Esalen Institute from 1968-70. His yoga seminars deal with the basic concerns of living and the evolution of awareness. He taught throughout North America, in Europe and Asia with Diana Alstad until 1986. They began teaching again in 2005 to address the spiritual and global challenges humanity faces.
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Diana Alstad<\/strong>\u00a0taught seminars on yoga of body, mind and relationships with Joel from 1974-86. Through Diana’s vision, they developed a Yoga of Relationship. Her\u00a0<\/span>Yoga Journal\u00a0<\/em><\/span>article “Exploring Relationships: Interpersonal Yoga<\/strong>” (1979) extends Joel’s yogic approach to the social arena. They have taught relationship seminars at Esalen, Omega and other centers, and continue to develop and teach it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joel & Diana<\/strong>\u00a0speak on spirituality, yoga, relationships, and many issues. Their talks on “An Evolutionary Approach to Yoga & Spirituality”<\/strong>\u00a0offer new perspectives on the current human condition and a different view of spirituality. <\/span>They are co-authors of\u00a0<\/span>The Passionate Mind Revisited: Expanding Personal & Social Awareness<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2009; e-book 2013) concerning individual and social evolution and\u00a0The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1993; e-book 2012) exposing hidden mental, cultural and spiritual authoritarianism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n




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