Apr 30, 2019
Larry Payne, Ph.D. is an internationally respected yoga teacher and back specialist. The L.A. Times named Larry “One of America’s most respected Yoga teachers”. He co-authored Yoga Therapy Rx, Yoga for Dummies and The Business of Teaching Yoga. Larry is founding president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, founder of the Corporate Yoga program at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the first Yoga teacher to offer Yoga classes at the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the yoga curriculum at UCLA’s School of Medicine, and the founding director of the new Yoga therapy certification program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
In this episode we talk about:
- How him and richard miller met
- How he got into yoga and the people he was fortunate to study with
- How yoga is a stress reducer
- How Krishnamarchya adapted yoga to be about the individual (vini yoga)
- The evolution of today’s yoga
- What Prime of Life yoga is
- How Yoga Therapy started
- How his want for material things has changed over time
- What his purpose in life is