Think I might like to practice here, if I lived in London and didn't have to pay commuter rates to get there in time. Doesn't seem to be open Saturday as yet, unfortunately.
"For me yoga has been a way of processing my inner world... and it's been a way of finding a more positive relationship with everything outside me with everything inside me" Lucy Scott 1:01
"It's called yoga practice because what your practicing for is life. I can find grace and stillness on the mat but can I be that person with my wife, my children...with everyone else I'm in relationship with". John Scott 1:58
"For me yoga has been a way of processing my inner world... and it's been a way of finding a more positive relationship with everything outside me with everything inside me" Lucy Scott 1:01
"It's called yoga practice because what your practicing for is life. I can find grace and stillness on the mat but can I be that person with my wife, my children...with everyone else I'm in relationship with". John Scott 1:58
"Practice starts here and continues when you leave. The point of Ashtanga Yoga self practice, Mysore self practice... it's about you creating a practice for yourself, that you own, that you can fit in your life. It's not about anyone else, it's about you becoming responsible for your own yoga practice...and that can be as dynamic as it needs to be" Scott Johnson (Stillpoint Yoga London co founder) 4:56
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Scott Johnson
I have been teaching Ashtanga Yoga solely since 2003, and have been director and teacher of Stillpoint Yoga London since it’s inception in 2009. It is has been a true pleasure to teach full time at SYL for the last 4 years and to be able to meet everyone who has come through the door. The community has grown to one of such love and dedication, to the practice and to each other, and to have been part of facilitating that process has been life changing. I love this space, community and practice. I am deeply grateful meeting whoever comes to SYL and being able to help them unveil their own unique practice of ashtanga yoga.
The dedication to my life as a householder, husband and father of 3 beautiful boys has not led me, as yet, to Mysore and to study at the KPJAYI. I have however retained a long personal and teaching relationship with John Scott who has helped show me the depths that Ashtanga Yoga has and also the way to pass this tradition on in an as authentic way possible. I also show great respect to the work of Cathy Mae Keralse and Swami Nityamuktanada. All these teachers individual experiences and knowledge have added greatly to my own experience of the practice of yoga, and to all of them I show gratitude and love. It is through them, and the continued work through them, that has helped me shape my experience in conveying the practice of yoga onward.
I have trained and hold certificates in Ashtanga Yoga from Union Yoga (2005) and am a senior yoga teacher (SYT) with Yoga Alliance UK . I also completed the John and Lucy Scott ashtanga yoga intensive 2 month teacher training course in New Zealand (2009) which is accredited with Yoga Alliance (230 Hrs)
I am also forever indebted to the time I spent with Ozge Karabiyik, as it is through her that I have learnt to become humble…
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John and Lucy Scott are back teaching in the UK in Cornwall
Studio Address
Stillpoint
Raginnis, Mousehole,
Cornwall TR19 6NJ
John Scott Yoga
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Lots of Ashtanga Books coming out around now.
Sharath has a book that's trickling out of Mysore, hope to have something on that soon, let me know what it's like if you've seen a copy. Is it just a picture book with a collection of short conference notes or more in-depth treatments of some of these topics and other elements surrounding practice.
UPDATE
I Just asked my friend Joy aboutSharath's book as she's just picked up a copy
She says...
"It's a lovely book, only $12 (about 6 Quid for you), starts out with a beautiful dedication to Guruji, great description of all 8 limbs, sutras and why we do what we do, there is a focus on Yama &
niyamas, notes on practice: Tristhana & Vinyasa, then full Primary (looks like same pics from Yoga Mala and Lino's book), opening mantra, asanas for therapy, magala mantra and shanti mantra".
Thanks Joy.
Petri Raisanen has one, think they're sending me a copy of that to take a look at any day now.
Kino's book seems to have been held back, sure it was supposed to be out in April, currently Amazon are saying July.
However, the books I'd like to see are....
A book of translations of any articles Sri K. Pattabhi Jois wrote. He was said to be a Sanskrit scholar, lecturing on different aspects of Yoga at the Sanskrit College in Mysore, surely he wrote articles, put down teaching notes, where are they?
Where is the KPJAYI Library to rival the Iyengar library?
We're spoiled by so many articles and newsletters from Ramaswami, books, articles and notes from BKS Iyengar but where are the books of collected writing of T. Krishnamacharya? We have some works on practice, Yoga Makaranda and Yogasangalu of course, his Yoga Rahasya, a few poems but where are the collected writings, a translation of his Yoga Sutras commentary at least.
Krishnamacharya was, again, said to be a great scholar, the family keep mentioning that he had the equivalent of six or so phd's but where are the six phd thesis' ( a viva like presentation really doesn't count for my money), where are the articles and papers on all these different Indian philosophies?
There must be a pile of writings buried away somewhere, no?
A Scholar is supposed to further the knowledge and understanding within a field of knowledge. The work is presented to other scholars in the field, their peers who study and reflect, engage and critique the work, knowledge moves forward, this is what makes the scholars work trustworthy.
"The Scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public. It is the methods that systemically advance the teaching, research, and practice of a given scholarly or academic field of study through rigorous inquiry. Scholarship is noted by its significance to its particular profession, is creative, can be documented, can be replicated or elaborated, and can be and is peer-reviewed through various methods". Wikipedia : )
Of course you may argue that I have a Western, Eurocentric perhaps, idea of scholarship, of veracity and rigour, inquiry and trustworthiness...please do in the comments box below.
Reading widely within a field and sharing the fruits of your reading with students, new to the subject, unable and/or unwilling to question and challenge your reading and interpretations does not make you, in my eyes, a scholar, a teacher but not a scholar...you may be a good teacher perhaps but there is surely a difference.
And while we're at it, where is the supposed transcription of Yoga Korunta that KPJAYI continue to refer to in underwriting the authenticity of the Ashtanga method.
"The method of Yoga taught at KPJAYI is that which has been told by the ancient Sage Vamana in his text called “Yoga Korunta.” Although many books on Yoga have been written, Vamana is the only one who has delineated a complete practical method. In the 1920’s, the Yogi and Sanskrit Scholar, T. Krishnamacharya traveled to Calcutta where he transcribed and recorded the Yoga Korunta, which was written on palm leaves and was in a bad state of decay, having been partially eaten by ants. Later, Krishnamacharya passed on these teachings to the late Pattabhi Jois, whose school continues to teach this method today". KPJAYI