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Krishnamacharya practicing at 84
What does practice look like after 70 years?Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu ( Link to translation) was originally published in 1942, these photos are from the 3rd edition 1972 *Or perhaps practice after...
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Krishnamacharya seems to have practiced along with his students.
Yesterday I posted 120 odd pictures of Krishnamacharya demonstrating asana from the 3rd edition of his second book Yogasanagalu, he was 84 at the time. The pictures were remarkable, how did he manage...
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Krishnamacharya's own asana and pranayama practice Plus Krishnamacharya's...
Following on from the previous two posts, the first on the 120 photos of Krishnamacharya demonstrating asana aged 84 and the second asking how he managed to stay so strong and flexible in his asana...
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Consistency and compatibility: A response to criticisms of Ashtanga Vinyasa...
Part IIn a previous post on Krishnamacharya's employment of inversions in Ashtanga and Vinyasa krama I looked to the 1938 black and white footage of Krishnamacharya practicing Sarvangasana...
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Namaskāra नमस्कार (salutation)
Recently I wrote a post called TheAshtanga Key - Sury namaskara, where I basically argued that the Ashtanga vinyasa system may have derived from the sury namaskara, the sun salutation. In a nutshell...
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Derek Ireland's Yoga Nidra in the Ashtanga section of Yoga Unveiled
Several post on the blog concerning Derek Ireland
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Pattabhi Jois, " That's Me"....... from yoga Unveiled
Re-posted from 5th January 2012I was just skimming through the Yoga unveiled documentary and came across the Ashtanga section, nice clip of Pattabhi Jois pointing to that old picture from...
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Pattabhi Jois, Krishnamacharya and the Yoga Korunta story, as told in 1986 YJ
Stumbled upon this edition of YJ while looking for Pattabhi Jois' nail in thigh while in Kapo with Krishnamacharya standing on me storyfor personal studyHere's the Krishnamacharya and Pattabhi Jois...
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Simon Borg Oliver - Mayurasana Relaxed or Hardened Abdomen? Plus...
"(Mayurasana)...This asana stithi should be held from 1 minute to 3 hours according to the practitioner's capability..... If this asana is practiced every day for at least fifteen minutes, a lot of...
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The breath: Simon Borg-Olivier made me fall in love with asana all over again.
The breath! I'd started to feel that asana was getting in the way of the breath.... I'm falling in love with asana all over again.Thank you Simon Borg-OlivierAll I've been interested in lately is the...
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Ashtanga Certification: Includes a list of Certified Ashtanga teachers* -...
"Eligo in Summum Pontificem"College of cardinals playset. Think one of our Ashtanga artists should make one for all the certified teachers- see LINKI received notification early this morning of a new...
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Old screenshots of blog design on the Internet archive
This amused me, some of the changes I've made to the blog over the last couple of years, the title as well as the background, restlessness?These are from the web archive https://archive.org/web/ you...
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Krishnamacharya on how to breathe in asana (1941) Plus more from Simon...
A dilemma, to continue exploring Simon's use of abdominal breathing or return to Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu guidelines. What would Krishnamacharya himself have done faced with a similar...
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Asana consumerism: Did Series kill asana? Plus David Garrigues on The Yoga...
I've held off posting this... draft, but listening to David Garrigues interview with Claudia this morning (see below) persuaded me to brush it off a little. David too talks of less asana and seeing...
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Notes to SelfI was trying to find my previous summary of the Yoga Sutras ( in plain English) to add to today's post but struggled to hunt it down. Here's the link to the original post.Sunday, 14...
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Notes to Self: In defence of asana practice - Also Krishnamacharya's...
moreNotes to SelfKrishnamacharya at 50, even in his later years Krishnamacharya was supposedly practicing up to three hours of asana a day, he never lost faith in asana it seems even practicing it in...
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More on Krishnamacharya's breath, two students 30 years apart, Indra Devi...
Thank you to Enrique for sending through these pages from two of Krishnamacharya's students thirty years apart, Indra devi1930s and Yyvonne Millerand 1960s as well as two pages from his son TKV...
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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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Krishnamacharya practicing at 84
What does practice look like after 70 years?Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu ( Link to translation) was originally published in 1942, these photos are from the 3rd edition 1972 *Or perhaps practice after...
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