Jean Claude West was the senior teacher that I knew the least about going into the Teachers' Program. His knowledge of orthopedic biomechanics was truly amazing. His work with us on Virabhadrasana I (warrior pose) was phenomenal. I can't explain it here adequately, but, I highly recommend studying with him. He resides in Mill Valley.
Todd Jones from the Yoga Journal staff was in this particular session. He wrote a nice blog entry about the session that is worth a read. I was impressed by Todd as well. There was a point in the session where it looked like we were going to go off into the weeds discussing how to best communicate the information Jean Claude was sharing with us to our students in terms they could understand. Todd did a great job of redirecting us back to focusing on what we could learn from Jean Claude in the brief time that we had with him.
Jean Claude mentioned that anyone that wanted to learn more about biomechanics could read what he called the bible of biomechanics. A three volume set written by Adalbert Kapandji entitled "The Physiology of the Joints."
Namasté
About Me
- Van Riper
- It all started benignly enough when my daughter decided to take part in children's theater. At the mandatory meeting for parent volunteers, I offered to setup a Yahoo! Group (Google Groups were just a twinkle in Larry and Sergey's eyes back then) for us and the theater director turned and said to me, "So, I see you're a community organizer." Before long, I was community organizing every chance I could get: BayCHI, BayDUX, Java User Groups, Java Champions, JUG-USA, Google Technology User Groups, Ignites, Community Leadership Summits, ... and I also work in Google's Developer Relations Team.
