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The call of practice
Sometimes it seems to take a blog post forever to say what you really want to say and unfortunately ipad doesn't really allow you to edit longer postsOld SelfieI wanted to title this post The call of...
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Collection of Ramaswami's 2013 Newsletters
My friend Oscar from Leon has brought together all of Ramaswami's newsletters from last yearhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yjiI2Gk_VAWFM2SFZDby1JcDA/previewCollections from previous years can be...
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Why didn't Krishnamacharya seem to teach sun salutation's
On the way up to Stonemonkey in Leamington Spa for my workshop (which was great fun by the way, thank you everyone for coming, Digby, Maddy, Paula, for making it happen) I had a little time to kill and...
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Talk on Krishnamacharya from Yoga Rainbow Festival with Russian translation
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...
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Krishnamacharya's Ashtanga vinyasa yoga (at home) in Rethymno
Two months practice in Rethymno at Kristina's shala, thought I'd start in the morning but it seems there's an evening Mysore tonight (groan)
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Warm Summer Greetings. I was in UK late May and early June. Taught five programs. A five day 25 hr TT program in Vinyasakrama asanas in London. I also taught for three days (18hrs) Samkhya Karika, in...
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Handstands, backbends, Saganaki in Rethymno
Noticed that this blog is about to tick over two million hits, how mad is that M. has clearly been busy or perhaps had too much time on her hands. Feels like there should at least be a new post.....So...
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Ashtanga and Stoic Endurance PLUS Guest post : Ashtanga and related Indian...
Thank you to Andres for this interesting letter that he gave me permission to put up as a guest post.But first this...For all the ins and outs of this discussion I've been most struck by the idea of...
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Nowhere to hide in Shala practice, Gymnasium and Some pictures from my recent...
Now I know why I was a home Ashtangi for so long, nowhere to hide in the shala.First week of full primary in god knows how long, I've added on up to kapo onto my Primary occasionally but it's been...
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Yoga Documentary - Yoga: Tradition in the Eyes of Modernity 2013 (full movie)
Fom my good friends behind WILD YOGI MAGAZINE and the Yoga Rainbow Festival that I was privileged enough to offer some classes on Krishnamacharya's original Ashtanga and Vinyasa Krama recently.A couple...
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Shala practice, the home Ashtangi view.... and 50 breaths in tittibhasana B
I feel a bit of a traitor to the cause, it's there in the title and always has been, Jump back at home, Ashtanga jump back at home, Krishnamacharya's Ashtanga at home, Krishnamacharya's original...
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Old school Ashtanga in Rethymno Crete : But you know what the funniest thing...
Vincent: "But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is... It's the little differences".'Old school' up there in the title shouldn't necessarily suggest older is better, just a little different...
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Crete: Evening practice 2nd series asana with Kumbhaka plus Know thyself
My view from Home Sweet Home cafe, Rethymno, Crete as I write this and wait for it to cool down enough to hit the beachHonestly, if money was no object and I could go anywhere, and I mean anywhere, to...
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New high def photos of Vinyasa Krama class above the trees Yoga-Rainbow...
Yoga-Rainbow Festival in Cirali, Turkey just sent me all the hi def photos by Dmitry Preobrazhensky of my first Vinyasa Krama class at the festival, the one on the platform above the lemon trees, what...
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The Vena and the spine, Teaching In Chania and 'rest day', walking the 16km...
Krishnamacharya supposedly studied the vina for three years?"Note:The human spine is comparable to the vina, an ancient Indian string instrument,the vertebrae of the spine being likened to the nodes of...
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Krishnamacharya's breath control... in bullet points
Nice fb update from Ramaswami (Krishnamacharya's student of over 30 years) this morning who is currently teaching his TT at LMU in LA"Sri Krishnamacharya's yoga was (is) breath based. According to some...
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Pattabhi Jois Performing Puja London 2002 plus talk on Krishnamacharya and...
Kristina ( http://www.yogapractice.gr ) has been rummaging around and come up with some old videos on disc. Bit tricky extracting, editing and converting them (unfortunately my converting software is...
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Shala practice, adding on 3rd (groan)
I've been feeling a little lazy in the shala, coasting as it were. Around me my shala mates are building up their Primary ( and we all remember how tough that was) or practicing full Primary and adding...
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Where did Ashtanga 3rd series come from?
A long rambling post as I upload a long video over a very slow connection making one Greek frappe stretch all afternoon.Sometimes I play with the theory, what if Pattabhi Jois had come up with ALL the...
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Old Illustrations ( Cheat Sheets) of Ashtanga Series
Kristina turned up with an old file of Ashtanga material last night, gave it to me to go through to see if there was anything of interest. Yep, all kinds of treasures buried away. What I loved most...
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