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The perception of Ashtanga in 1995 - What was Pattabhi Jois letter to YJ in...
Pattabhi Jois' letter to Yoga Journal has been doing the rounds again, warning about Ashtanga being turned into a circus. I included the letter in my postBut wasn't it always a circus. Distractions and...
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Learn Sanskrit with Zoë Slatoff-Ponté's Yogavataranam - The Translation of yoga
Amazon LinkLearning Sanskrit will not make you any more of a Yogi.Traditionally you would learn to chant the yoga sutras etc. or mantras composed in Sanskrit before learning what they meant.Sanskrit is...
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9 years of Home Practice, Primary to Advanced B to half Primary - Developing...
So it's been 9 years since I started my home Ashtanga Vinyasa practice and coming up to 8 years (June/July) since I started the blog......I think it was Mid March 2007 that I started practising. Many...
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Instagram : Promoting Proficiency of the breath in Primary asana over...
I've tended to have a negative view of Instagram or rather how it is often employed to promote and maintain celebrity yoga practitioners status through the use of advanced asana and 'words of advice or...
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1. Baddha Konasana #proficientprimaryproject
1. Baddha Konasana If we can promote advanced asana through Instagram then perhaps we can also promote Primary asana and work on proficiency there. Ramaswami and his teacher Krishnamacharya suggest...
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2. Sirsasnana #proficientprimaryproject
2. SirsasanaSirsasana #proficientprimaryproject Sirsasana, no variations.twenty five breaths, two breaths a minute. 10 sec. Inhalation5 sec. kumbhaka 10 sec. Exhalation5 sec. Kumbhaka 1. Start with...
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3. Tatakamudra #proficientprimaryproject
3. Tatakamudra (pond gesture)Tatakamudra #proficientprimaryprojectTatakamudra (pond gesture)I tend to include Tatakamudra in any practice, usually before sarvangasana (shoulderstand). It can be...
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4. Maha Mudra (great seal) #proficientprimaryproject
Maha Mudra (great seal) #proficientprimaryproject Essentially the point of the Proficient Primary Project is to approach asana as mudra.Traditionally hand gestures accompanying Mantras,...
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Asymmetric asana approached as mudra. #proficientprimaryproject
5. Asymmetric asana approached as mudraThe Vinyasa serves the asana, it should surely lead us towards the asana rather than away. Too often we focus on getting into the posture rather than inhabiting...
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Pushpam Yoga Magazine published by Certified Ashtanga teacher Hamish Hendry...
I was sent a few pages from Pushpam Yoga Magazine recently, a smart, nicely written, chewy - in a thought provoking sense, quarterly from a team with strong connections to Certified Ashtanga teacher...
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My Krishnamacharya's Original Ashtanga Yoga Book is based on the tamil...
My Krishnamacharya's Original Ashtanga Yoga Book is based on the tamil edition translation Yoga Makaranda by Sri T. Krishnamacharya (Written in Kannada)My acknowledgement pageTamil Translation by Sri...
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April 2016 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami— अध्यास (adhyāsa)
From the newsletter "D If the goal of all these philosophies is to bring home the truth about the self then why are there so many philosophies and so many texts.G; There are subtle differences among...
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David Swenson on Modification at Ashtanga Yoga Confluence 2016 + Full Primary...
David in laugh a minute form (and some) at the confluence this yearThank you to Reid Robison for sharing these.Also full PrimaryAnd this is excellent from Ashtanga Yoga Hong Kong ( supposedly, David...
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Proficient Primary Project. #proficientprimaryproject
This has been an ongoing project that I've been updating on a page at the top of the blog via Instagram, I'm posting it now as a completed post bar a few tweaks.*If advanced asana can be endlessly...
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Ashtanga Vinyasa 'food' at Home (and out)
My last post, (#proficientprimaryproject ), felt like closure somewhat, as if I have been working towards the approach to practice presented for the last four years or so.When you turn to a closer...
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Blog Housekeeping: New permanant page, Beginning Yoga / Ashtanga / Vinyasa krama
I received mail this week.....*It's a good point, if this was a website it might be better organised but as a blog it's a godawful mess. There is label list at the bottom of the blog but that has grown...
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In the beginning we become enamoured with Ashtanga........
So this http://loveyogaanatomy.com/holistic-asana-practice/ is the article I've occasionally stumbled upon reference to recently ( it seems that it's almost impossible to eliminate all yoga related...
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Blog Housekeeping: New permanant page, Beginning Yoga / Ashtanga / Vinyasa krama
I received mail this week.....*It's a good point, if this was a website it might be better organised but as a blog it's a godawful mess. There is label list at the bottom of the blog but that has grown...
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Sharath, Paramaguru? What is the meaning, significance of the Paramaguru title.
I was asked why Sharath is suddenly being referred to as Paramaguru (highest guru/guru of the parampara?) in the advertising for the current US Tour ( my reply become too long for an fb comment thus...
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Manju jois Led Primary plus Manju presenting pranayama and peace chants.
A nice Led Primary series video from Manju Pattabhi Jois and Natasa Cvetkovic's Ashtanga Yoga Vienna. Manju runs through Primary here in an hour, a little fast for my taste (although I'm just about...
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