News & Bone Density Project
Hi! Welcome to Kaiut Yoga Denver’s News page, updated occasionally.
Book Review: The Kaiut Yoga Method
If you’ve practiced Kaiut Yoga, you may have wondered: what’s happening in my body that creates the feelings I get when I practice? Francisco Kaiut’s son, Ravi Kaiut, has written a book that responds to that question. A researcher, author and educator, Ravi brings his experience to a guide that is warm, clear, and relatable to North American students and teachers. If you’re practicing regularly, you can feel your body changing. This book will deepen your understanding.
“One of the most important skills in Kaiut Yoga is learning to differentiate destructive pain from constructive sensation.
Destructive pain is sharp, stabbing, alarming, or panic inducing. It carries a clear message from the nervous system to stop or change something immediately. This type of pain does not support adaptation and should never be pushed through.
Constructive sensation, by contrast, is often diffuse, heavy or unfamiliar. It may include dull aching, trembling, mild cramping, or a sense of deep pressure. While not always comfortable, it is purposeful. It is the good positive stress—enough stimulus to provoke reorganization, but not so much that the nervous system escalates into protection.
When you can tell the difference between sharp pain, diffuse ache, tenderness, stiffness, weakness and numbness, you stop treating all sensations the same.”
— Ravi Kaiut
The Kaiut Yoga Method offers clear guidance on how to distinguish between harmful pain and constructive sensation, making this book a valuable companion to your practice here at Kaiut Yoga Denver.
Short Doc — Francisco Kaiut, The Teacher Behind the Method
Thanks to Kaiut Yoga Denver community member Dee for unearthing this beautifully done short documentary about Francisco Kaiut and the evolution of the method. Set at a 2017 training event in Toronto, it has an intimate quality and enchanting, urban vibe.
“Most of my life, I’ve had pain. In my childhood, I was shot in my hip.
One day I was driving. After driving for one or two hours, everything in that hip started to get locked up, and the pain started moving. I noticed that the car was harmful not only to me; the car was actually harmful to everyone. My hip being injured was allowing me to experience what everybody actually feels, but in a shorter period of time.
At that moment, I noticed that yoga poses are basically very complex leverage systems operating biomechanically. Every single pose matches a human necessity in one or many joints at the same time.”
— Francisco Kaiut
Bone Density Project
Book Recommendation
