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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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Mysore Dream: How many 'yogi's' does it take to change a light bulb? Two, me...
Actually, that should of course read, Sharath and INow is this my third Mysore dream or the fourth ( in pretty much exactly 8 years of Ashtanga practice)?Mysore Shala Sharath´s conference, photographed...
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Yoga's loss of purpose.
This started off simply as a comment and share of the blog below but became a little longer as I tried to work out my own thinking such that I decided to turn it into a blog post (and this is all this...
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A blog's loss of purpose.... Plus a glitzy (Love) Hotel practice
or not taking yourself ( and/or your blog) so seriously.Nothing like practicing in a kitsch Osaka 1970s Love hotel to put things into perspective and as for the above, guilty as charged, clearly.I'd...
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Krishnamacharya's tricky ekapada sirsasana ( or ekapada viparitakarani)
I currently have a soft spot for this headstand variation, ekapada viparitakaraniI came across it awhile back in Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda (Part II) but couldn't figure out what was going on in...
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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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Spring, first drop of sweat on the mat, state of asana.
It's spring I tell ya, ....first drop of sweat on the mat this morning, there it was at the end of standing, was so excited that I stopped to take a photo. It might have happened earlier or been a...
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Yoga Sutras: Word (śabda) शब्द Srivatsa Ramaswami — April 2015 Newsletter from
I was in Mexico City for about two weeks during March 2015. I taught two programs one at Roxana Letchipia's Twamevayoga which was well attended and a sparsely attended program at Centro Kiai. But...
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Yoga and boredom ( the 'fun' factor).
A friend on facebook shared a video I had put up back in 2009, at first I thought she had added the comment that went with it and winced a little, after I checked back through it turned out I'd...
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Six years of Ashtanga and Vinyasa Krama Youtube videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/grimmly2007/videos
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Approaching the Bhagavad Gita - Lost in translation, the looting of Yoga
This is fun.... and timely, a critique of picking up a text from another culture and (re)interpreting it willy nilly,...., deinstructing it, oops did I mean deconstructing... (nope right the first...
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THE COMPLETE SURYANAMASKARA - Plus Surayanamaskara (sun salutation) with mantras
One of my fondest memories of my five weeks with Ramaswami on his TT at LMU in LA in 2010 was the sunday afternoon we spent listening to Ramaswami chant the full Surynamaskara, at the end of each...
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Chatauranga long stay and Vinyasa. Plus Can you sweat toxins out of your body?
"..there must be 4 angulas* of space between the body and the ground. In this position, if you keep a stick or rod on top of the body, the rod must touch the body completely. We need to keep our body...
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Handstand in the old text Yogāsana-Jaina
Nice find and share from my friend Oscar, this unpublished Jain asana text, Yogāsana-Jaina Satapathy B, Sahay GS. A brief introduction of "Yogāsana - Jaina": An unpublished yoga manuscript. Yoga...
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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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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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Two minute (just about) niralumba sirsasana (unsupported headstand) made...
Stunning video and blog post from Simon Borg-Olivier on breathing around the spine in headstand. I wouldn't recommend trying this at home unless you have explored and established the Ashtanga 2nd...
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On blogging and a quick Kindle Paperwhite review
I had the kindest note regarding this blog a short while ago and it made me think how I haven't added to my'related blog' LIST that much recently ( it's down on the right after the orange link to...
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Yoga and Superheros: Warrior of Love Rainbowman! Plus an excellent post from...
"What the hell has yoga got to do with capes for heaven sake" I gripped to M. this morning.M. come back with, "well.... there was Rainbowman".Rainbowman???Maya, you and the kids are going to love...
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Dogpose (श्वानासन) - May 2015 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
May 2015 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami - Dogpose (श्वानासन) - For a long time I had been wanting to upload a video containing the entire hour long chanting of Arunam or Suryanamaskara from the...
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