Matthew Sanford is an expert in the process of transformation through the healing power of yoga. Paralyzed from the chest down at age thirteen and beginning yoga at age twenty-five, Matthew knows firsthand the transformative effect that yoga can have on the mind-body relationship. He’s the author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence, and the founder of the nonprofit organization, Mind Body Solutions.
- Book, Waking:A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
- Organization: Mind Body Solutions
- Online Classes: The Hub
- Jivana explains how connecting with Matthew launched the first Accessible Yoga Conference
- The role of the student and the role of the teacher - sit shoulder to shoulder
- Finding agency
- “Yoga is infinite. You can’t put your arms around the whole ocean.”
- “Let the emptiness be full.”
- “Poses don’t end at the terminus of your body”
- Set conditions for the mind to receive from places it can't control
- Breath being the link
- Wheelchair users grounding with their base, reconnecting to the earth
- Boundaries and reference in asana
- Humanity & humility
