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Relationship - Stillpoint Yoga Mini Documentary with John and Lucy Scott....
Think I might like to practice here, if I lived in London and didn't have to pay commuter rates to get there in time. Doesn't seem to be open Saturday as yet, unfortunately."For me yoga has been a way...
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Sharath's Ashtanga Primary Primer Astanga Yoga Anusthana
This is from yesterday's post.Sharath has a book that's trickling out of Mysore, Astanga Yoga Anusthana, hope to have something on that soon, let me know what it's like if you've seen a it, or indeed...
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Guest Post: Report. Guru on the Grounds, Sharath's visit to UVA Yesterday
Guest post from James Fishwick. On Sharath's visit/workshop/led half primary at UVA, University of Virginia Home of the Tudor-Jones sponsored Contemplative Sciences Centre ) yesterday (April 5th...
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Ramaswami on teaching Pranayama and his teacher training 2013 at LMU
Sri T. Krishnamacharya, Pranayama"While teaching prāṇayāma, it may be a good practice to first concentrate on complete exhalation . Asana vinyāsas like hasta vinyāsas and kriyas like kapālabhāti help...
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Story Time: The Story of Vajrasana - Srivatsa Ramaswami
We called it 'story time'. In the morning, after two and a half hours of asana, pranayama, pratyahara and meditation and following our savasana when he would chant, Ramaswami would more often than not...
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To Savasana or not to Savasana Also Tatkamudra
I was talking with a friend about this ages ago and promised a post, better late than never (this post is a bit of a work in progress, feel free to add any notes in comments and I'll bring them into...
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Vinyasa Krama Kapotasana, Ushtrasana and Camel walk
These nice original shots from Ramaswami's book The complete book of Vinyasa Yoga have shown up in Ramaswami's status updates this week.See my post on Ramaswami and his upcoming 200 hr TT course...
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Did Krishnamacharya teach Ashtanga Primary Series? Matthew Sweeney and the...
Anyone new to the practice who finds their way to this post let me say at the outset that this is very much amateur speculation, we're all in the dark here as to the origin of the practice and should...
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Rishi or Ansura? On Ashtanga practice.
and yet......it's something, it's oh quite something,this practice of ours.Perhaps it did come about by chance, an accident of time and circumstance....but oh what a thing it is, this practice....This...
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GUEST POST: Sahaj Marg Meditation : Evolution of an Ashtangi from Physical to...
Guest post on Sahaj Marg Meditation, a 'Raja yoga based system of practice', by Satya Murthy, who has been translating Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu for us here on this blog (one more important...
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UPDATED. BOOK REVIEW: Petri Räisänen's 'Definitive Primary Series Practice...
I should point out right from the outset that this was a review copy, I didn't buy this book.Does not buying it make a difference, probably. These days, buying online, we're a little in the dark as to...
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The differences and distinctions that emerged in Ashtanga : More on/from...
Continuing with yesterdays review post of Petri Räisänen's bookAshtanga Yoga in the tradition of Sri K Pattabhi...
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Chanting or playing the flute in Asana
This week we were offered the chance to have free lessons through the school 'attached' to the shop (thank you Laura... and Vicky). Sax is/was my thing so I chose flute lessons, I've fooled around with...
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'...99% practicing ALL aspects of Yoga, including theory'. Sharath Jois
Sun coming up during practice this week. Note my Sweeney bottom right as I brush up on my 2nd.This fb status update just in from a mini Sharath conference at Jois Yoga EncinitasJois Yoga Encinitas...
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Aṣṭāṅga — from Srivatsa Ramaswami May 2013 Newsletter
May 2013 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami— AṣṭāṅgaMy website www.vinyasakrama.com was recently accessed for the 200,000th time, thanks mainly due to my fast 'moving fingers'.I am traveling to London...
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Breath is nice : A post on practice
Thought it's been a while since I posted on practice, so here goes...Thing is, I really can't think of much to say about it.How did I write 1500 posts on this?So, practice...........back doing 2nd in...
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Ramaswami's in town : ( Home shala Workshop
"...so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which...
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Nataraja, Dancing Ganesha, Shiva... at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and...
Beautiful, sunny, Spring Bank Holiday in Oxford yesterdayOxfordThe excellent Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology has had a make over since I last visited, very light, fresh and open feel to the...
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Interesting for those wrapped up in the is 'yoga and religion' debate perhapsThis feature documentary about the life and teaching of B.K.S. Iyengar has now come to the post production editing stage...
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Going to Manju Jois' TT in Rethymno, Crete August 2013
I came across a post from last year in which I was trying to decide between Richard Freeman's workshop in London and Manju's TT in Crete. Last year financial responsibility won out and I went to...
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