While on the Yoga Rainbow Festival I was asked to give a two hour talk on Krishnamacharya.
I only managed to record the first forty minutes of audio ( if anyone recorded the full two hours perhaps you could share it with me through dropbox grimmly2007 at googlemail dot com).
At the beginning of this talk I stress that I'm just a blogger. I'm not an historian, I don't have their tools and skills, I'm an enthusiastic amateur only. But then come to think of it some of the theories the historians and biographers come up with move very swiftly from facts to speculation. We have to sift through the stories, the reminiscing, the self interest, which aspects of a life some wish to stress and others play down. We only have to look at the different timelines in the various biographies of Krishnamacharya to be aware of how little we actually know about this fascinating man
On the practice side of things I feel on slightly safer ground having read Krishnamacharya's early works over and over and practicing along to his instructions daily for the last year or more but even here it's pretty much archeology, not an exact science. We also have to ask what was the intention behind the works Krishnamacharya produced, was this how he actually taught or perhaps how he would have liked to have taught.
The translation is by the wonderful Maria Vorobyeva, thank you yet again Maria.
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I only managed to record the first forty minutes of audio ( if anyone recorded the full two hours perhaps you could share it with me through dropbox grimmly2007 at googlemail dot com).
At the beginning of this talk I stress that I'm just a blogger. I'm not an historian, I don't have their tools and skills, I'm an enthusiastic amateur only. But then come to think of it some of the theories the historians and biographers come up with move very swiftly from facts to speculation. We have to sift through the stories, the reminiscing, the self interest, which aspects of a life some wish to stress and others play down. We only have to look at the different timelines in the various biographies of Krishnamacharya to be aware of how little we actually know about this fascinating man
On the practice side of things I feel on slightly safer ground having read Krishnamacharya's early works over and over and practicing along to his instructions daily for the last year or more but even here it's pretty much archeology, not an exact science. We also have to ask what was the intention behind the works Krishnamacharya produced, was this how he actually taught or perhaps how he would have liked to have taught.
The translation is by the wonderful Maria Vorobyeva, thank you yet again Maria.
