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Being Interviewed by Claudia for the Yoga Podcast : Some clarifications
Thank you to my dear friend and fellow blogger Claudia for choosing to interview me for her Yoga Podcast recently which was aired yesterday, follow the link below to her Blog which gives a kind and...
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Anthony's Nudge - February 2015 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
From cold, very cold New Jersey, warm Greetings! I am now trying to complete arrangements for teaching assignments for 2015. Firstly On Feruary 26th I will be giving a talk at Princeton University...
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1970s Article titled 'About Sri T Krishnamacharya, My Guru'.
from Ramaswami's Feb 2011 Newsletter, 'Anthony's Nudge' (previous post)"...I wrote about the Yoga Sutras and then decided to write about my Guru at the instance of the Editor of the magazine. I had...
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Questioning the relationship between the Samkhya influenced Yoga Sutras and...
I am so far out of my scholarly depth here but these questions have been troubling me (and perhaps they have you) for some time and is behind the question I posed to Ramaswami recently (see previous...
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Angela Jamison Interview Ashtanga and Meditation, Mobile shala's, teaching...
"Not having more students than I can fully perceive and support".Angela JamisonLu Dong's Ashtanga Parampara (http://www.ashtangaparampara.org/) is still my favourite Ashtanga interview platform, find a...
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Ashtanga legitimacy, to practice, to teach....
Nice segment on legitimacy here (unfortunately we don't have the context of the thread and how it evolved to give it context), thank you for this Aliya Weise and of course Peg MulqueenI've tended to...
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But what if I practice my Ashtanga FAST and then.....
tapas (Sanskrit: "Warmth, heat,") — hence psychic energy, spiritual fervour or ardor.( Warning: the first part of this post engages in a gross mischaracterisation of an Ashtanga practice... for...
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Kumbhaka studies: Breath holding and heightened arousal - Flute and...
Inhaling while playing and passages of breath holding during a piece cause a racing heart, an increase in blood pressure and a physical sense of emergency. Usually, such sensations are indicative of an...
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Passing beyond justifying not going to Mysore
Legitimacy is in the air, lots of discussions this week in the blogosphere and elsewhere but there's something I can't quite put my finger on.I keep coming back to this.... something bothering me in...
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Morning prayer/appreciation and Home practice
SURYA: halogen parabola heaterThis post comes from tweaking the appreciation section on my previous post 'Moving beyond the need to justify not going to Mysore', such that I decided to give it it's own...
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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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The Yoga Podcast - Fancy new graphics and slideshows David Keil, Gregor...
Claudia has gone all arty with her Yoga podcast video, fancy graphics in the title and she seems to have been visiting my photo albums, always curious seeing which one's get...
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Where to place the head in Sirsasana ( headstsnd)
Practiced as a mudra Sirsasana vewrsion of Viparita karani, breath slowed and slowed some more, uddiyana bandha/kriya, kumbhaka, long stayWHERE TO PLACE THE HEAD IN HEADSTANDThis was buried away in an...
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INVERSIONS: Krishnamacharya's head and shoulderstand variations 1934-1980s
I've been having a fun week revisiting Ramaswami's Vinyasa Krama Supine and Inverted sequences, exploring them within the context of Ashtanga.At first I would practice a regular Ashtanga Primary (...
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"Why then has Pattabhi Jois presented the practice of asana/vinyasa...
I was asked the above question on fb, here's my short fb answer/guess with some links."Why then has Pattabhi Jois presented the practice of asana/vinyasa differently from what his teacher taught"? I've...
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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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Encountering T. Krishnamacharya
Krishnamacharya teaching - photo unrelated to post below.from Revisiting T. Krishnamacharya – founder of modern yoga _ Radhika's blog"The modern, professional-looking and bustling Krishnamacharya Yoga...
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Pattabhi Jois' ongoing relationship with Krishnamacharya - PLUS Workshop...
If Krishnamacharya was giving giving Saraswati a teaching certificate based on an examination of the Vinyasa count in 1975 it suggests that Krishnamacharya continued to see this as a relevant approach...
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What practice feels like: John Cage ASLP ( As slow as possible) and played as...
Practice, today feels a little like thisbut used to feel like....A Primary and Middle group asana practice along the lines of...is probably about right (for me personally). ''The cadences and...
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What does Intermediate and Advanced Series Standing look like? Sharath, Tim...
SharathUPDATE: This post doesn't really work, the idea was to show just the Sury Namaskara's and Standing sequences of practitioners who are practicing Intermediate and Advanced series.Rather than...
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