2013 A year in posts - picking out my favourite posts.

Our Christmas Day Vegetarian Timpani, all kinds of things in it,  my 4 hour ragu, two kinds of Tortellini , Mozzarella balls, Vegetarian sausage with fennel seeds, peas, cavatappi curly pasta, spinach, peas, Parmesan, eggs....and yet it worked.

Indulge me. Nice thing about blogging is that you get to look back over the year and remember some things you'd forgotten through rereading old posts.

I'd forgotten for instance how I'd started the year deciding to let go of Ashtanga to focus on teaching, and thus practicing, Vinyasa Krama - we teach only what we practice, right. As it happens, as the year progressed and I continued to research Krishnamacharya, the Ashtanga I found in Krishnamacharya's early book Yoga Makaranda allowed me to bring the two approaches together more comfortably. And taking Manju's workshop in Crete late in the year allowed me to see the current Ashtanga in Krishnamacharya's Ashtanga.

I'm much more comfortable in my own practice and thus more confident to share that, teaching a little here at home and now it seems offering workshops. I gave my first workshop last month, and I'll be teaching three classes along similar lines at the Yoga Rainbow festival in Turkey mid May and should be teaching a similar workshop to the one I gave in Leon this time in Valencia towards the end of January (dates to be confirmed on that one).

Oh and this is new, a print version of my Vinyasa Yoga Practice Book, available on Lulu now and soon on Amazon, it's expensive though because it's A4 over 400 pages,costs a fortune to print unfortunately, it's  still available for free though as a pdf on my Free Downloads page and a couple of quid on Amazon, as a Kindle/Ibook. I Should get my preview copy this week so don't buy it before I get to take a look and make sure they haven't screwed up the formatting. I'd always wanted to do a full edit on this but realised I'll probably never get around to it, it is what it is.
A. printed me out a copy a short while back and it looked OK, the pictures work better in an A4 book than on a kindle and I like that there are hints/tips/cautions for every posture or at least each subroutines.


Early next year I'll be moving back to Japan with M., she'll be going on ahead early February I hope to follow towards the end of May. I think I started Blogging in June 2008 so that will make, pretty much six years, might be time to call it a day...... but then again, what is it going to be like practicing in Japan, those long, hot,  humid summer's and what's the Ashtanga scene like in Japan, will I have the opportunity to teach, to promote Vinyasa Krama, perhaps get to explore more deeply  the meeting of Ashtanga and Zen. Japan may well be an interesting, inspiring place to blog from.....

Thank you too for those of you who contributed Guest posts, really enjoyed these, thank you





Started the year writing about giving up Ashtanga to focus on , and teach, Vinyasa Krama, a feeling of obligation. As the year went on and I focused on Krishnamachrya's Ashtang in Yoga Makaranda the distinction between the two styles dropped away.


3 posts looking at Yogacarya Krishnamacharya - The Purnacarya. Edited by Mala Srivatsan



Looking at Krishnamacharya through the work of his son, T. K. Shribashyam as well as his involvement with the Krishnamacharya documentary Breath of God



David Robeson's drum CD was fun to explore



Ashtanga Yoga Conference, several posts and videos on this



and sadly my chinchilla, Nietsche passed after 19 years with us


Looking more closely at Yoga Makaranda again and finding an Ashtanga primary series hidden away, this would evolve into the workshop I taught earlier this month


I'd started to consider Manju's TT workshop in Crete and came across a copy of this Derek Ireland tribute magazine


exploring how long a slow count full vinyasa primary would actually take




Mid May I got sick and it went on for months, right up until the week before Manju's workshop



My defence of Ashtanga







and I began to consider teaching...




Looking through these old posts I liked this one on Ashtanga and Zen



More early Krishnamacharya workshop




and this 'tutorial' for Jessica because it goes back to where this blog started, with the jump back


I liked this post on the old man of Hasan, which followed on from Michelle's guest post on More to Mysore



Yet more Krishnamacharya research


And some fun exploring Chakra baandhasana this is the final post on the month long challenge



My favourite post of the year...


and we finally decided to set things in motion for moving back to Japan early 2014.



A great find...

I gave my first workshop in Leon, Spain


have another coming up next May



And I'll also be giving another Krishnamacharys in Valencia most likely towards the end of January, dates to be confirmed, these things seem to come in threes

• • • The full Blog archive is over there on the right of the blog, did I miss a favourite post of yours? one you hated? Here are the year in post's for the previous years.
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