Krishnamacharya Practice Video, oscar and I Practicing Vinyasa Krama and Krishnamacharya's Ashtanga from Yoga Makaranda.

The beautiful practice space ofYoga Centro Victoria

On the Monday after the Krishnamacharya workshop I gave in Leon last weekend http://grimmly2007.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/photo-journal-of-my-first.html , Oscar and I had the chance to practice together, just the two of us, in the beautiful Yoga Centro Victoria studio.


Oscar practiced Vinyasa Krama and I practiced the Primary asana group of postures as described by Krishnamacharya in his Yoga Makaranda (minus, for example,  the ten minute stay in chaturanga dandasana).

Our practice took a little over two and a half hours, at one point Oscar remembered he had to renew the parking ticket and had to run off. A mix up with the camera meant we only recorded about half an hour, plenty I'm sure you'll agree.

Lot of practice that day, practicing with Oscar in the morning then, after walking around Leon on my own playing tourist, I went back to take Oscar's Vinyasa Krama/Integral class followed by his Ashtanga class. Came outside afterwards after the third practice of the day to find it was a full moon, Oops.

Taking Oscar's Ashtanga class, in Spanish so looking around to check I'm following OK.

Taking Oscar's Vinyasa krama/ Integral class.

Strange watching this, from the outside as it were, I've been practicing this way for some time now, with the long slow breathing, the kumbhaka's the longer stays but watching back it seems even slower (thus the second speeded up version). I like it though and want to continue exploring these asana descriptions in practice..... what was Krishnamacharya up to in his exploration of kumbhaka in asana (see previous post).

Here's the video then at actual speed ( trying to upload the hi def version to Youtube), followed by the speeded up version and below that some screenshots in case you don't have time to watch the video, and lets face it, watching paint dry comes to mind (wonderful way to practice though).














Below, trimmed down instructions for paschimottanasana from Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda