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YOGA 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...
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Shala 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...
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July 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...
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Just 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...
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Thinking in Vinyasa rather than Asana. "This is a Vinyasa not asana...
I used to be annoyed at how the back cover of Ramaswami's The Complete book of Vinyasa Yoga and how it states..."Ramaswami presents sequences of more than 900 poses and variations...."That always...
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Vinyasa Krama Bow and Meditative practice inc feet together Ustrasana and...
A companion piece to yesterdays post, 'Thinking in Vinyasa rather than asana'.A great pleasure this morning to practice Vinyasa Krama Bow and Meditative vinyasas. Practice this morning was kapalabhati,...
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'Vinyasa Krama prayer', Ganesha prayer, Patanjali prayers I and II INC....
Loved this surprise for Ramaswami, the class of this years teacher training at LMU secretly learning the full vinyasa Krama prayer that Ramaswami would start many of his classes with and singing it to...
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Asana at work and Inversion variations and finishing at home.
"For people over fifty, it is enough to practice some of the easier and more useful asanas, as well as some of the pranayamas. Those who have been practicing for many years, however, can do any asana...
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Pattabhi Jois : Long breathing "... ten second inhalation, ten second...
"Breathing system very important, without breathing no yoga, no curing your body, no curing your body very important breathing system.... You take inhale exhale, inhale exhale, every time 10 second...
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Did Pattabhi Jois practice some or all of the Series he created and if so for...
This post develops a question that came up on one of my blog post links on fb.Pattabhi Jois teaching André Van Lysebeth Pranayama in 1964We give a lot of weight to the fixed Ashtanga series (Primary,...
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What does Pattabhi Jois' Advanced A/Third series Visvamitrasana photo tell us...
This post is a follow on or continuation of my previous postDid Pattabhi Jois practice some or all of the Series he created and if so for how long?Sometime after writing the above post I decided to add...
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Guna ~ Srivatsa Ramaswami September 2015 Newsletter
During August 2015 I completed teaching the 200 Hr Vinyasakrama Yoga Teacher Training Program at Loyola Marymount, University, LA for the last time . I am beholden to Dr Chris Chapple, Bob Hurteau and...
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Should it matter if and how long Pattabhi Jois may have practiced the...
This last weeks I've put up a couple of posts reflecting on Pattabhi Jois'own practice and if and to what extent it reflected current methodology.Did Pattabhi Jois practice some or all of the Series he...
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Pattabhi Jois Early Asana Photos
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is...
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Convince me Krishnamacharya are there any serious benefits to Leg behind head...
I stopped bothering with leg behind head postures some time ago, I think the one with the Shakuhachi below from earlier in the year was the last time I tried it (it was kind of a joke), I was surprised...
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Tapas supports the yamas and niyamas, the yamas and niyamas support the practice
This first year in Japan has taken it's toll somewhat, the disruption of the move, leaving people behind, the familiarity (security?) of my practice space. One thing after another, minor things really,...
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The Yama Niyama section of the Patanjali's Yoga Sutras for study or chanting...
Studying or learning to chant Patanjali's Yoga Sutras can be a large undertaking, we may wish to learn to chant it in sections however, the yama niyama portion perhaps, before or after our...
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Updated draft: Handstands, backbends and Saganaki in Rethymno - Pattabhi Jois...
Stumbled upon this old post (languishing as a draft since Friday, 4 July 2014) from just over a year ago, back when I was in my beloved Rethymno, Crete at Kristina's shala. The post looks at handstands...
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Book Review: The Power of Yoga - Yamini Muthanna Dancer and Student of BNS...
Link to AmazonI was recently sent this book, The Power of Yoga by Yamini Muthanna, one of BNS Iyengar's students ( the 'other' Iyengar, also a student of Krishnamacharya for a time as well as of...
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