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Book review OM The world of Ashtanga Yogis - Plus my own answers to the nine...
Angelique Boudet let me know she had self published a book of Ashtanga Interviews I bought the Ebook and have posted some quotes below.The first friend I mentioned it too asked why would we want to...
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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas/Happy holidays to all who visit.... and especially to all who come back even when something I write has you tearing out your hair and wanting to throw last years mince pies at me.Thank...
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Q. Was the boy in Chakrasana (or Triyangamukha Uttanasana) in...
Last week I was asked about the girl in Kurmasana in Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda, this time I've been asked if the boy demonstrating chakrasana ( or Triyangamukha Uttanasana) might be the young...
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Backbending: Supta Vajrasana, Advanced backbending and the effects of our...
In Krishnamacharya's Mysore books, written in the period he was teaching the young Pattabhi Jois Krishnamacharya gives instructions for introducing short kumbhakas (breath retentions) during the...
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Teaching one thing, practicing another
Q: Just curious.....Since your approach to practice is so different now, why are you teaching M. the more straightforward ashtanga and not the way you practice?A: Good question. I still think straight...
View Articleकर्म (Karma ) January 2016 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
"The Gita is considered one of the three basic texts for Brahma Vidya or Vedanta along with the Brahma Sutras and the Upanishads. Several renowned philosophers have written commentaries on them like...
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2015 My Year in Posts -12 posts from the year PLUS Pattabhi Jois list (13...
Our mountain, yesterday Shiga.There was a point in November when My Hard drive was grinding to a halt when I thought I might as well stop blogging altogether, besides it's not as if I'd blogged much...
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Nice, 'by the book' Ashtanga....pretty much.
Picking my sax back up along with my Ashtanga practice.A short post while the practice room warms up.So New Year morning with three days left of my holiday from work and no plans or commitments, M. and...
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Loving Kindness and Brahmavihāras, the four immeasurables in the Yoga Sutras...
I've had this post sitting in my draft box for a year or more perhaps longer, occasionally tweaking it, always intending to develop it further....., this will have to do for now.Question: What does the...
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Bringing loving Kindness into our practice. Also, Krishnamacharya Baddha...
This is a section on bringing Metta into our practice that was buried away in yesterdays long post on Yoga Sutra 1-33 and the BrahmavihārasLoving Kindness and Brahmavihāras, the four immeasurables in...
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Backbending: Preparations, exercises - So you're struggling with urdhva...
"Backbend" for convenience sake but really we should be thinking of these as perhaps spine lengtheners we want to create space in the spine rather than compression. Here's a nice link to a post at...
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Krishnamacharya and 'backbending' asana 1930s to 1970s
Following on from my backbending post yesterdayThis post looks at backbending asana presented throughout Krishnamacharya's life including the handful of backbending asana in Yoga Makaranda (1934),...
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Sri T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) Two short biographies
Krishnamacharya seems to have been a one man University, he taught Philosophy, Medicine, Music, Classics, Literature, Theology, Languages and Philology... oh and he taught asana too.Sri Krishnamacharya...
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Krishnamacharya's marvellous Ardha Matsyendrasana 'no1' variation...
In a recent post I mentioned that I started the new year practicing pretty much straight Ashtanga alongside M. I speculated at the end of the post how long that might last. I think it ended up being...
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HOME PRACTICE
This was originally intended as an article last year but got lost somewhere in the process, I'm posting it now so I can link it to a question on Home practice on the fb Ashtanga Discussion forum.Home...
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Did Krishnamacharya teach arm balances? plus arm balances by BKS Iyengar,...
My friend Joelle's is offering an arm balancing workshop in Maidenhead (where I was living before moving to Japan), 20-40 minutes by train from London Paddington, 5 minutes walk from the...
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Krishnamacharya, Asana practice and menstruation
"If women practise primarily this asana (Bhujapidasana) during times of menstruation, the disturbances and problems related to menstruation will disappear. This is a definite and easy way to obtain...
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Employing blocks to help with shooting the legs back in jumping back.
My very first post on this blog was about jumping back, the blog was originally called Ashtanga jump back at home when I started it in July 2008.I think I miss those old posts consisting of a couple of...
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Sri K. Pattabhi Jois' READING LIST from from the 'original' Ashtanga diploma...
I was looking at the original Ashtanga (diploma) syllabus given to Nancy Gilgoff and David Williams in 1974 yesterday (I have a poster of it in my practice room) and focussed in on the theory section...
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Ashtanga Yoga Shiga, Japan. Morning Mysore..... officially 'open', kinda.
With M starting a new job today, chosen partly to allow for a regular morning practice ( no shift work) it felt a little like a grand opening this morning.Up at 5am, fresh coffee then into the home...
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