From Form to Freedom
Transforming Yoga Teaching and Practice with Creative Play
‘Freedom can feel overwhelming: once you step out from under a teacher’s wing into the glaring light of freedom, what do you do now?’
Judy Hirsh Sampath’s creative guide is for anyone questioning prescriptive teaching methods and practices that no longer align with their felt experience. Tuning in and listening to the body, the book includes embodied exercises to spark inspiration and create space for creativity and play through yoga,
Part One honours the value of the classical form and the foundational principles of yogic wisdom. Part Two covers the process of becoming – finding confidence in your own understanding of yoga and trusting the part of you that knows without thinking; widening your mind and opening your heart and mind personally and professionally. Part Three is a treasure chest of vital resources and guided practices with notes for curious and playful facilitators.
Yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and trainer, teacher and co-founder of Yogaunited and Yogaunited Education, Judy Hirsh Sampath runs classes, trainings and retreats in the UK and India to guide individuals in becoming empowered experts in themselves through embodied and soulful practices.
Published: Oct 21 2026
- Pages: 240
- ISBN: 9781805013044
Press Reviews
- Professor Heidi Safia Mirza, UCL, University of London and Author of ‘Race, Gender and Educational Desire’A playful, mischievous, freeing take on yoga! Sampath breaks open the mat’s gentle rules, inviting readers to move with feeling, rebel with delight, and rediscover the wild freedom of their own bodies. As her student, this book is a bountiful blessing- for yoga teachers it is a liberatory gift.
- Donna Farhi, Author of ‘Bringing Yoga to Life’In an era where Yoga has been narrowly reduced to the practice of postures (asanas), Judy Sampath’s book is a refreshing reminder that Yoga with a capital “Y”, is a practice intended to awaken a recognition of our connection with life itself. There is a playful joyfulness in her many suggested inquiries and questions that can provoke thought, experimentation and change for both students and teachers.
