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Learning to Move from Strength Instead of Strain
As a young man he trained for a decade in the classical dance form of
bharatanatyam. As an adult he studied yoga, and ran a studio of his own.
One day he announced he was going to observe his students in silence,
and see what arose. It was a radical decision, and for Gert van Leeuwen,
it led to the birth of Critical Alignment Yoga and Therapy - a precise,
slow, and uniquely rigorous practice that seeks to free body and mind
from conditioned preferences and habitual tension. "We can start to move
from profound strength instead of strain," says van Leeuwen. The
following piece shares more about his path.
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