THE QUESTION ALMOST EVERYONE ASKS
Am I doing this right?
Should my knee be here?
Should my hips be square?
Should I go deeper?
And what exactly am I supposed to be feeling?
For decades, yoga has given us endless cues about what a pose should look like.
But a pose can look perfect on the outside while creating completely different amounts of stretch, tension, stability, and joint load on the inside.
Learning to create the right amount of stretch and stability, while finding that feeling of ‘grounded spaciousness,’ is a skill.
And like any skill, it has to be learned.
THE CORE IDEA
Yoga is a Feeling, Not Just a Shape
In a typical vinyasa class, one teacher may be guiding 20, 30, or even 40 students. They simply can’t see everything happening in every body.
And even if they could, they cannot feel what you feel.
They don’t know everything about your anatomy, your history, your strength, your mobility, or what you’re experiencing inside a pose today.
Only you know what it feels like to live inside your body.
That’s why “listen to your body” is good advice.
But first, you need to know what to listen for.
A pose isn’t something you simply fall into.
You actively create the forces that put the stretch and stability where you want them.
That’s a skill you need to learn. Yoga Optimized will teach you how.
I LEARNED THIS THE HARD WAY
I thought yoga was inherently beneficial. I didn’t think it could hurt me.
In 2000, I received a hands-on adjustment in a pose I had struggled with for years.
In Marichyasana D, my teacher helped me bind my hands. My left knee was six inches from the floor, so he stepped on it until it touched the floor.
From the outside, the pose looked right. I had checked every box.
I finally made the shape. But I didn’t understand what I was supposed to feel.
Seconds later, I heard a snap in my knee.
I had gotten the pose “right.”
So how had it gone so wrong?
THE QUESTION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
I had to change the way I practiced.
I began questioning and rethinking much of what I had been taught.
After my injury, I became obsessed with understanding how to practice more intelligently.
I spent decades seeking out great teachers, researching and studying anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and movement, then testing what I learned in my own body and with students around the world.
Along the way, I began identifying literacy gaps in the way modern yoga is commonly taught and developing new principles to fill them.
One of those discoveries became DUO: Dynamic Unifying Opposition.
Another became Sensation-Guided Attunement.
Yoga Optimized grew from that work: a new approach grounded in movement science and guided by what you can actually feel.
THEN SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENED
I set out to heal my knee.
I discovered something much bigger.
The principles I was developing didn’t just improve my yoga. They changed how I moved in sports, strength training, and daily life.
I became more flexible and stronger. More mobile and more stable.
That led me to a bigger question: What if yoga can help us build a body that moves well now and keeps moving for life?
I call this your Movement Span.
You know what a lifespan is, and you’ve probably heard of healthspan. Your Movement Span is the number of years you can move with optimally functioning joints, power, and grace.
Yoga Optimized is designed to help you increase your Movement Span, on and off the mat, so you can keep doing the things you love for as long as possible.
Look Inside Yoga Optimized
353 full-color pages. Three sections. From philosophy → science → practical application.
Section 1: Yoga is a feeling, not a shape
The story behind Yoga Optimized.
How a serious knee injury forced me to rethink much of what I had been taught about alignment.
What led to the development of DUO and Sensation-Guided Attunement:
A way of practicing guided not just by how a pose looks, but by what you can actually feel
Woven through the memoir is the core Blissology philosophy of the art and science of happiness.
Flip through SECTION 1 ↓
Section 2: soulful science
Embodied Physiology to Improve Movement & Stillness Literacy
Understand the body you’re practicing in: breath, nervous system, muscles, fascia, joints, stretching and biomechanics.
Complex science made visual, practical, and relevant to what you actually feel.
Flip through SECTION 2 ↓
Section 3: asana deep Knowledge
Learn to tailor the practice to your unique body.
Apply DUO and Sensation-Guided Attunement to understand the intention of each pose, the forces that create it,
and what to feel so you can make intelligent choices for your body.
Flip through SECTION 3 ↓
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WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
Yoga Optimized is for bodies that move.
You don’t need to be a yoga teacher, or even a yogi, to use this book.
Yoga Practitioners
Understand the intention behind the poses, the forces you’re creating, and how to make the practice fit your body.
Yoga Teachers
Go beyond memorized cues. Deepen your understanding of physiology, biomechanics, sensation, and the “why” behind what you teach.
Beginners
Start with principles instead of having to unlearn one-size-fits-all rules later. No advanced practice required.
Movement + Fitness People
If yoga has ever felt too vague or too “woo,” this gives you a grounded, science-forward way into the practice without losing its soul.
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DID YOU KNOW YOGA OPTIMIZED IS ALSO AN ONLINE COURSE?
Read it. Watch it. Feel it.
The online course turns the ideas in Yoga Optimized into a complete guided learning experience.
Don’t just read the principles. See them demonstrated, practice them, and feel them in your own body.
Each video references pages and figures from the book, bringing them from the page into moving demonstrations that help you learn and embody them.
* 63 videos
* 6 complete sessions covering all five active pose families + relaxation
* Relevant book pages and figures embedded inside the lessons
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YOUR BODY IS A MIRACLE. TREAT IT THAT WAY.
Understand your body. Move better for life.
Yoga Optimized gives you the knowledge to understand what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and what to feel, so you can make intelligent choices for your body.