Some videos coming out of the first day of the Ashtanga Yoga Confluence in LA from Budianto Hariadi, subscribe to the YouTube channel here http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOxUQxvGqlnX4XnPR2hXtg?feature=watch
Thank you for posting/sharing your videos
If you only have time to watch one, go for Eddie's Ganesh Puja part 2, the third video below.
there's an amusing moment when our video diarist is asked by their friend ( at least I hope it's a friend)
"..can't you just be in the moment"?
It stuck me that it's pretty much what Purusha would say to Citta if Purusha could be bothered and wasn't....well, busy being in the moment.
Which reminded me of Ramaswami's story of the King and the Dancer. Here's Claudia's version of the story as she remembered it from Ramaswami's workshop.
From Claudia's post Are you the King or the Dancer
"Once upon a time there was a King who had all sorts of people entertain him, as a king would. Among them there was a dancer who worked very hard to please this King. She tried new sequences and choreographic feasts, bright customs, elaborated entries, pirouettes, and stunning exits. But the king never said anything to her, never made a gesture, never expressed feeling. Nothing.
This went on for years and years and the dancer was eventually a bit frustrated as anyone would be.
At that time a sage happened to come around the kingdom, and he had compassion in his heart to provide the answer to her riddle: "The King does not care at all, he does not care either way" he said to her. The dancer did not know this, but with the new information she was now able to stop dancing.
The beautiful story was told to us by Ramaswami (a 30+ year student of Krishnamacharya) in his Yoga Sutra course. It comes from the Samkhya philosophy of yoga. Yesterday I re-read it in his book and thought it so beautiful I wanted to share it".
And here's the story and explanation from Ramaswami's excellent book Yoga for the three stages of Life. The story starts right at the end of the first page but you might want to come back and read the first page later to give it more context.
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but on to the videos....
Thank you for posting/sharing your videos
If you only have time to watch one, go for Eddie's Ganesh Puja part 2, the third video below.
there's an amusing moment when our video diarist is asked by their friend ( at least I hope it's a friend)
"..can't you just be in the moment"?
It stuck me that it's pretty much what Purusha would say to Citta if Purusha could be bothered and wasn't....well, busy being in the moment.
Which reminded me of Ramaswami's story of the King and the Dancer. Here's Claudia's version of the story as she remembered it from Ramaswami's workshop.
From Claudia's post Are you the King or the Dancer
"Once upon a time there was a King who had all sorts of people entertain him, as a king would. Among them there was a dancer who worked very hard to please this King. She tried new sequences and choreographic feasts, bright customs, elaborated entries, pirouettes, and stunning exits. But the king never said anything to her, never made a gesture, never expressed feeling. Nothing.
This went on for years and years and the dancer was eventually a bit frustrated as anyone would be.
At that time a sage happened to come around the kingdom, and he had compassion in his heart to provide the answer to her riddle: "The King does not care at all, he does not care either way" he said to her. The dancer did not know this, but with the new information she was now able to stop dancing.
The beautiful story was told to us by Ramaswami (a 30+ year student of Krishnamacharya) in his Yoga Sutra course. It comes from the Samkhya philosophy of yoga. Yesterday I re-read it in his book and thought it so beautiful I wanted to share it".
And here's the story and explanation from Ramaswami's excellent book Yoga for the three stages of Life. The story starts right at the end of the first page but you might want to come back and read the first page later to give it more context.
Whose blogging from AYC?
Steve and Bobbi of course from Confluence countdown
http://theconfluencecountdown.com
for example
How I was taught…by Tim Miller
‘We knocked on the door’
Om gam ganapate namah
also
http://sereneflavor.com
Questions
Grunt Before Grace
Traditional Ashtanga in Prague
http://www.ashtangapraha.cz
AYC, 2013, first few days
Do let me know you come across anyone else blogging from AYC or other nice videos coming out of there.