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Yoga and Ageing ( with particular reference to Ashtanga).
Many who write about Ashtanga and ageing, often critics of Ashtanga generally, fail to understand that while many do take a somewhat aggressive, energetic, approach to their Ashtanga practice it is...
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Review Mysore Yoga traditions Documentary. Also. Attending the related...
Reposting from this time last yearUPDATE Oct 9th 2018Looking forward to attending this...Mysore Yoga Traditions Retreat and ConferenceFebruary 8-22...
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Krishnamacharya's Pre-Jois Mysore 'Ashtanga' Primary Group Practice.
Just as I no longer wish to have a photo of Pattabhi Jois in my practice room I find that I no longer wish to practice my Ashtanga as Pattabhi Jois presented it. And yet Jois' presentation of Ashtanga...
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Krishnamacharya's Mysore Yoga students 1941 Yoga demonstration photos
Reposting this from this Feb. last year as Dr. TRS Sharma will be giving a lecture today (one of three) on the Mysore yoga retreat https://www.mysoreyogatraditions.com/mysore-retreatIf you are...
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Krishnamacharya and Burmese Insight meditation practice, breath and focal...
Update 2019Spoiler Alert: This is all highly speculative.I'm reminded, updating this post, that Insight meditation practice was were I started, I actually went to the library to pick up some books on...
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Final chapter from Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu Part II Pranayam. Plus the...
NOTE: With the translation of Krishnamacharya's second book Yogasanagalu ( Mysore 1941 - 3rd edition with additional chapter 1972) now complete, I'm just putting the finishing touches on a free to...
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Origins of Ashtanga Vinyasa: Yogasanagalu and Yoga Korunta (yogakuranti)...
Perhaps some quick posts with some lines that have caught my eye in rereading Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu (Mysore 1941), finally translated into English.First up, a tantalising Bibliography,...
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Specifics of the breath in yoga asana - Notes from Krishnamacharya's...
Krishnamacharya gets quite specific with regard to the breath in Yogasanagalu (Mysore 1941)."In pranayama practice (yogangabhyasis), inhalation and exhalation motion is performed using both nostrils,...
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On Vinyasa: "Yogasanas must be only practiced with vinyasas and never without...
from my book Krishnamacharya's Original Ashtanga, Print version available from Lulu HEREfrom Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalau (Mysore 1941"Yogasanas must be only practiced with vinyasas and never...
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How Krishnamacharya taught Ramaswami pranayama plus Why Patanjali's Yoga?
"My one-to-one studies with my guru usually lasted one hour. One day, at the beginning of the class, he asked me to do this pranayama for the entire duration of the session and left the room. At the...
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New Mysore Traditions Movie Trailer and why go to Mysore
Great new look at the Mysore Yoga Traditions movie currently in production, looking beautiful, and a whole bag full of quotes in this trailer alone. I'm going to need a bigger notebook when it finally...
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Resource: Puraka (inhalation), Recaka (exhalation) and Kumbhaka (retention)...
Q: Not only have I been to a class of yours but I use your vinyasa book and just bought your Krishnamacharya book! Please tell me if he (krishnamacharya) REALLY holds his breath for 10 minutes? In your...
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Simon Borg Olivier's 84 key postures course - Three ways to approach it.
This is the Appendix from yesterdays post, I wanted to give it a stand alone post to make it easier to find.Nice to see this post on Janu Sirsasana from Simon Borg-Olivier (See below). I was watching...
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What is it about Mudra? Also... Simon Borg-Oliver on Janu Sirsasana and an...
This post was basically an fb share this morning but I want to post it here to come back later to this idea of mudra I'm starting to circleWhat is it about the profound experience I encounter in mudra...
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Notes from Krishnamacharya in AG Mohan's new edition of Hatha Yoga Pradipka
Link to AmazonFriends have been getting in touch this week to ask me if I've seen or yet have a copy of AG Mohan and Dr. Ganeseha Mohan's new edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipka with notes from...
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Book Review: Yoga for the three stages of Life. My 'all time favourite' book...
Despite this being my favourite book of Ramaswami's and probably the best book on yoga I've come across, I don't seem to have given the book a standalone review on the blog. Time to make amends, so...
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Breathing in Ashtanga: Langhana Kriya - the reduction, exhalation, principle
from Srivatsa Ramaswami's Complete Book of vinyasa yoga Based on the teaching of T. Krishnamacharya(Ramaswami was a student of Krishnamacharya's for 30+ years)."In some of these back bends, it may be...
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"Huge variety of Krishnamacharya`s teachings" - Wild Yogi Interview -...
Warm GreetingsWarm Greetings from NJ. In August I taught a well attended 50 hr ten day program on Bhagavat Gita at Loyola Marymount University based on the teachings of Sri Krishnamacharya. I will be...
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Krishnamacharya on Pranayama and Bandhas from the Wild Yogi interview with...
In Ramaswami's newsletter this month ( see THIS blog post), he included his long interview with Wild Yogi, below is the section on how Krishnamacharya taught Ramaswami Pranayama and Bandhas over the...
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Ashtanga Authorisation 1980 - Present. Includes first ONLINE teaching list...
Update 14th feb 2018New KPJAYI listThis post will end up as an update on my Ashtanga Authorisation 1980s to present post and page.http://www.kpjayshala.com/australia-and-new-zealand.htmlThe new KPJAYI...
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Ashtanga Yoga: Inappropriate adjustments/Sexual abuse.
Given that I have promoted Ashtanga for the last ten years on this blog, I don't feel I can justify not sharing the links below, both here and on my Patabbhi Jois Resource page. That said, this blog is...
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Learning the 'Original' Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
This has been sitting in draft for some time, finally finished it off.To reclaim the 'original' Ashtanga vinyasa yoga we need just two texts, published and provided freely by the Mysore Palace (free...
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Why Meditation? Plus Yoga's Sister philosophy, Samkhya - Full text of the...
Clearing out the 'draft post' drawerContents1. From the Samkhya Karika2. Why Meditation? What is the goal for Patanjali of Yoga3. The Complete Samkhya KarikaAppendix 1. Samkhya - Ramaswami's...
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Proficient Primary
If advanced asana can be endlessly promoted through Instagram then perhaps we can also promote Primary asana and the proficiency we can explore there, in postures that most can approach....
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Final chapter from Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu Part I An asana sequence.
Thank you to Satya for coming back to Krishnamacharya's Yogasanaglu (Mysore 1941) for us and translating the final chapter that was added to the 3rd edition of the text in 1972, along with all the...
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