Frank Jude Boccio

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Frank Jude Boccio (born 1956

mindful yoga. He is known both for his teaching in centres across America, and for his 2004 book Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind, which describes a practice that combines yoga as exercise and Buddhist meditational
practice.

Life

Education and training

Frank Jude Boccio began practising

Samu Sunim, who ordained him as a dharma teacher in 2007.[2]

He studied a variety of styles of

Anusara, Ashtanga, Integral and Kundalini. He is a certified preventive and rehabilitative yoga teacher and therapist via the Bateman Institute. Georg Feuerstein has certified him for the Yoga Research and Education Center's 750-hour teacher training program.[2]

Career

Further information:
Mindful yoga

Boccio founded the Empty Mountain Sangha and the peer-led Tucson Mindfulness Practice Community.

Kripalu.[3]

He has written articles for magazines including Tricycle,[4] Yoga Journal,[5] Shambhala Sun,[6] Spring Wind, Namaskar, Elephant Journal,[7] and Experience Life.[2] He is the author of the 2004 book Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind which integrates Buddhism's Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana) with the practice of yoga asanas,[8] and chapters in various anthologies on the connection of yoga and Buddhism.[2][9]

Reception

Mindfulness Yoga

Phil Catalfo, reviewing Mindfulness Yoga for

Anapanasati Sutta which combines mindful breathing with the direction of the attention to these four areas.[10]

Buddha in anapanasati, mindfulness meditation.
3rd century, Kushan Empire

The yoga and meditation teacher and author

Anapanasati Sutta and Satipatthana Sutta".[11] She calls the book "the most erudite" and "the most philosophically comprehensive" of the three works on the topic that she reviews, tracing the origins of yoga to the life story of the Buddha, "himself a wandering yogi" in India. The book then provides a "dense but readable summary" of the core teachings of Buddhism and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, before offering four complete, illustrated, meditational asana sequences, paying attention both to the physical postures and to their lessons "about the deepest truths in our lives".[11]

The Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health called Boccio's book "the first to apply the Buddha's mindfulness meditation teachings to asana practice".[3]

Thich Nhat Hanh (who wrote the Foreword). It found the four sequences of asanas in the book somewhat hard to follow, making the book more suitable for established practitioners.[12]

In 2008, Nora Isaacs noted in Yoga Journal that Boccio and others such as Janice Gates, Cyndi Lee, Phillip Moffitt, and Sarah Powers, had "each, independently, discovered the benefits of merging mindfulness with asana", leading to "something we might call 'mindful yoga'."[13]

Personal life

Boccio has two daughters, one 36 years older than the other, and lives in Tucson, Arizona.[2]

Works

  • Boccio, Frank (2004). Mindfulness Yoga : the awakened union of breath, body and mind. Wisdom Publications.
    OCLC 53483563
    .

References

  1. ^ Boccio 2004, p. 1.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "About". Mindfulness Yoga. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  3. ^
    Kripalu
    . Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  4. ^ Boccio, Frank Jude. "Breath and the Body". Tricycle Magazine (Fall 2005). Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Frank Jude Boccio". Yoga Journal. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Frank Jude Boccio". Tucson Yoga. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  7. ^ Boccio, Frank Jude (3 December 2012). "21st Century Yoga: Questioning the 'Body Beautiful': Yoga, Commercialism & Discernment". Elephant Journal.
  8. ^ Boccio 2004.
  9. ^ "Frank Jude Boccio's Dharma Talks". Dharma Seed. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  10. ^ a b Catalfo, Phil (28 August 2007). "Balance: [Review] Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body, and Mind by Frank Jude Boccio". Yoga Journal. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  11. ^ a b c Cushman, Anne (2004). "Buddhism And Yoga: From downward dog to the dharma [Reviews]". Tricycle (Summer 2004). Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind". Publishers Weekly. 19 January 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  13. ^ Isaacs, Nora (21 October 2008). "Bring More Mindfulness Onto the Mat". Yoga Journal. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

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