02/17/2026
We are so excited to be hosting Donna Farhi Yoga for this workshop this summer. I hope you will join us!
The Shortcut is Always the Long Way Round
In horsemanship there’s a saying that the shortcut is always the long way round. I learned from my years as a horsewoman that cracks in your training created by quick fix approaches can become chasms later that take a lot longer to fix. I think there’s a corollary happening right now in the yoga industry around how we learn.
One of the big changes I’ve seen since I began my study of yoga is that teachers and practitioners often get information in a patchwork quilt fashion, often from multiple, divergent and conflicting sources. Little snippets of information gathered in an unsystematic fashion rarely add up to coherent understanding. If you don’t understand how something is put together you are not going to understand how to fix it if it falls apart. This is what I’ve witnessed in the hundreds of people who have attended my live sacroiliac and lower back pain workshops who have chronic sacroiliac joint instability and lower back pain and they really don’t understand how to fix it because they don’t understand the structure. They are genuinely frustrated because they don’t know how their yoga practice is making the problem worse and they’re not sure of how to go about making it better. And unfortunately, many yoga teachers and practitioners don’t have the information base to understand how to keep their backs pain-free. They’re often in a vicious cycle of injury, partial recovery and reinjury.
All real learning and real understanding takes time. Yet that time that we initially invest to thoroughly absorb and assimilate information creates a solid resource that we can draw from for the rest of our lives. As a writer I've always thought it's my job to do the hard work so the reader doesn't have to. As a teacher, I try to do that hard work in planning my intensives so that complex information becomes accessible and practical. This is my intention in creating a new course called Foundations of a Healthy Back, bringing together material from decades of work on the core body, sacroiliac joint, and spinal health. The course incorporates anatomy PowerPoints to deepen your understanding of your structure and then embeds this through intelligently sequenced practice.
The course in Noosa, Australia is already fully registered with a waiting list. There's only one other opportunity to attend this course in 2026. I hope you can attend.
Denver, July 10-14.
https://www.myevolition.com/donna-farhi-intensive-2026
