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Chuck Miller Satsang, TOKYO 2014, one hour forty minute talk. plus quotes...
http://www.sama-ashtanga.orghttp://www.sama-ashtanga.orgYesterday I put up this postWhere are they now? (mostly) Recent Videos/interviews with students from 1993 Sri K. Pattabhi Jois led Yoga Works...
View ArticleAshtanga yoga in 1995 (plus links to posts on 1986 and 1988 YJ Ashtanga...
A look at how Ashtanga was viewed/presented 20 years ago Interesting Yoga Journal article by senior editor Anne Cushman on Ashtanga in the 1995 January/February edition of Yoga Journal. This starts off...
View ArticlePracticing together
I've very much enjoyed visiting a Shala for the last couple of weeks.It's actually a remarkable place, the teacher who had been there for a while decided to open another Mysore program elsewhere in...
View ArticleJust Practice
This is perhaps my second favourite video by Alessandro ( my favourite is HERE), thank you to Lu for the heads up.Stunning stunning practice here....Now I still believe that half Primary can be just as...
View ArticleThe Rewards of Asana, Quietude - Al-Biruni's Arabic version of Patanjali's...
Abū Rayḥān al-BīrūnīAl-Biruni's Arabic version of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is quite wonderful, it has a Q and A format. Here is what he has to say about the third Limb, mostly focussing on the...
View Article(Your practice is ) "...like watching paint dry" - OR 'A relaxed and reposed...
M. was practicing with me yesterday, she was in her fifth Sury down dog and suddenly burst out laughing, I was still in samastithi and she said my practice was like "watching paint dry".I just...
View ArticleSequences. Vinyasa Krama and Ashtanga
I received this question and have been wanting to discuss the question of sequences in Vinyasa Krama and Ashtanga for some time.Question: When did Krishnamacaharya start teaching the Vinyasa Krama...
View ArticleWorkshop Review: 70 hour sloka by sloka, Bhagavad Gita... as taught by...
Thank you to my friends Chiara and Oscar for agreeing to share their thoughts on Ramaswami's recent (almost two week sloka by sloka Bhagavad Gita Intensive with Srivatsa Ramaswami.Ramaswami will be...
View ArticleExcellent Vinyasa Krama Tadasana sequence tutorial
When I posted the Vinyasa tadasana sequence videos earlier in the week( LINK: Sequences. Vinyasa Krama and Ashtanga )I tried to add a voiceover , the sound however was dreadful. I thought about having...
View ArticleR SHARATH JOIS - How yoga is being diluted world over - 10 quotes as well as...
I've been looking forward to an in depth, 'on the record' article, interview or extended newsletter, from Pattabhi Jois' grandson Sharath for some time, rather than the pickings of a conference talk...
View ArticleYoga, perhaps it's hardwired into us.
Yoga, perhaps it's hardwired into us.LINK...we don't always listen however.LINK to my original post
View ArticleThe Govt. of India's 35 min. Common Yoga Protocol, Video and pdf
Indian PM Modi and 35, 000 others in Delhi yesterday practicing the 'Common yoga protocol'The practice everyone was doing at the event above, including Indian PM. Modi, is based on a practiced produced...
View ArticleYesterday's first International Yoga Day - UN Video, PM Modi in Delhi, Photos...
UN video outlining the 21st June as International Yoga Dayhttp://webtv.un.org/watch/yogaday-celebrate-the-first-international-day-of-yoga/4307927817001PM Narendra Modi performs Yoga at Rajpath on...
View ArticleYOGA GLOSSARY
YOGA GLOSSARYLinking to topics of Newsletters by Srivatsa Ramaswami(student of T. Krishnamacharya for over 30 years)Work in progress, might see about adding quotes or definitions from the...
View ArticleShala spill over video - Ashtanga Led Primary at Casa vinyasa, Lisbon,...
Blogs used to inspire us to get on the mat occasionally, didn't they? Back when it was a struggle, over coffee, we would jump around each others blog lists and hopefully hit on something that would...
View ArticleJuly 2015 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--Review
My last 200 hr TT program in Vinyasakrama in US starts on 20th of July 2015 at LMU, and there are large open spaces available to spread the yoga mats on. Here is the link to...
View ArticleJust enrolled on Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss' Essentials of...
I've just in enrolled in Simon and Bianca's online Yoga Fundamentals course. I had a peek at their Anatomy and Physiology course last year but was running around without an internet connection while...
View ArticleSustaining a Home practice by David Garrigues - Poster, Youtube video
I may have changed the title of this blog from Ashtanga Jump back, to Ashanga Vinyasa Krama to Krishnamacharya's 'Original' Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga to.... what is it currently, Slow Ashtanga but one...
View Articlefeet/knees/Legs together backward bending, Ustrasana, kapotasana and drop back
Reading Ramaswami's post on legs together backward-bending this afternoon reminded me of giving these a trya few years back, (videos below) disconcerting but doable although I quickly went back to the...
View ArticleNew Rule: To study with Sharath in Mysore you have to have been with an...
People don't seem to see this as a big deal but it feels like the end of an era. Perhaps it was naive of me but I'd held on to the idea that the Mysore Shala and Sharath, as Pattabhi Jois' grandson,...
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