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Blog to Book - Slow Ashtanga Jul 2008 Dec 2014
Came across a website called Blogbooker http://www.blogbooker.com/index.php which can turn your blog not a pdf 'book' which you can then export to somebody like lulu for printing.It's not perfect, at...
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2014 My year in posts, an insane year
It's been an insane year.Moved back to Japan via Spain, Germany, Turkey, Crete, Russia M. quit her job last Christmas with the intention of us moving back to Japan, her to go ahead with me to follow...
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Last post: 'Love your practice...', Routine - Discipline - Dedication -...
Love your practice for it is the path of enquiry, love the first step as much as the last.Maybe it doesn't matter how fast or how slow we practice, or perhaps what we practice. More importantly, do we...
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Nothing says Christmas Morning like "Ekam, inhale". Peace and Goodwill, one...
So you thought I hated Christmas.....It's what Christmas isn't that I hate dislike intensely.Here's Japan attempting to get into the spirit or more cynically perhaps, the business associations...
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Interview: Kristina Karitinou on returning to Mysore after 12 years.
Kristina Karitinou, Agios Pavlos, Crete. Photo by Sandrine FauconetBack in November of last year I posted an interview with Kristina Karitinou,Tuesday, 19 November 2013Entelechy : An Interview with...
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Vairāgya (वैराग्य) January 2015 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
Warm New Year greetings.Like every year and as for most of us, 2014 was a mixed year. I very much enjoyed teaching at One Yoga in Saskatoon, Canada, Harmony Yoga in London and Wells in UK and Loyola...
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Norman Sjoman returning to Europe inc. UK early 2015
Norman Sjoman is coming back to Europe for a series of workshops, he will be in Coventry Jan-Feb. Unfortunately I'm on the other side of the planet but do go if you can and say hi to Norman for me.You...
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INVERSIONS: Krishnamacharya's Head and Shoulderstand variation 1934 (Mysore)...
It is often noted that Krishnamacharya appeared to change his teaching drastically after leaving Mysore in 1950s. One suggestion is that this was in response to no longer being on a salary from the...
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Krishnamacharya's 10 minutes in Suptapada Parsvangushtasana (Suptapada...
Suptapada Parsvangushtasana otherwise know as Suptapada Padangushtasana B. Parsva - to the sideIt struck me this morning that I owed an apology to my friends at StoneMonkey. November last year I...
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DRISHTI : Krishnamacharya didn't seem to turn his head in certain asana that...
So much for not blogging for a while (http://krishanamcharysaoriginalashtanga.blogspot.co.uk) I just ended up putting up a couple of technical posts on one of my other Krishnamacharya blogs. By the...
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When to introduce the 2nd series leg behind head entry to Supta kurmasana.
I was chatting with a friend last night about the 2nd series entry to Supta kurmasana and when to introduce it.I suspect many of us introduce it sooner than we probably should and there's a even...
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Outtakes: Ashtanga Parampara with Magnolia Zuniga and a question regarding...
Outtake video below from Double Booking with Les Twins, Magnolia Zuniga (left) and Jessica Walden (right).Another Fascinating interview by Lu Duong for the Ashtangaparampara interview platform...
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Confessional, Note to self, Yama Niyama
Around the Blogosphere"Oh, student. This is the next posture. The fact that you cannot tell the difference between how you're doing it now and the last time you did it tells me that you're still a...
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Last post: 'Love your practice...', Routine - Discipline - Dedication -...
Love the practice for it is the path of enquiry, love the first step as much as the last.Maybe it doesn't matter how fast or how slow we practice, or perhaps what we practice. More importantly, do we...
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Turning Ashtanga's KPJYI into KPJYF, a charitable foundation?
UPDATE: This has come off the top off my head ( and shows I think, all a bit half-baked at the moment), somebody with a better understanding of how foundations work.... or perhaps don't work could do a...
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Connecting Ashtanga and Vinyasa Krama,
legs together jump throughlegs together jump throughSometimes it's hard perhaps to see the connection between the Ashtanga Vinyasa of Pattabhi Jois and the Vinyasa Krama of Ramaswami, the 'Viniyoga' of...
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" The word Guru has become a doubtful concept" TKV Desikachar
TKV Desikachar with His father T. KrishnamacharyaKrishnamacharya sonTKV Desikachar in conversation with Rajiv MehrotraRajiv Mehrotra has been a personal student of HH The Dalai Lama for more than...
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Ashtanga Vinyasa is how old?
Vamana Rishi'Vinyasa is very old. You don’t see this is any other style of Yoga. This is based on, what I heard, based on Yoga Korunta, which Vamana Rishi wrote. Vamana Rishi is a very big saint, who...
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1:14 Practice continually.... but what exactly
Aranya's Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali my personal favourite presentation of the Yoga Sutras partly because he had lived in a cave for twenty odd years before writing it and had also studied western...
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Janusirsasana : Exaamples of kumbhaka in Krishnamacharya's 'Original'...
This post has been sitting in draft for sometime (June 2014), my friend Ilya mentioned I haven't posted much on the whole Krishnamacharya/Tibet connection. I have some material but never really pulled...
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