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Final chapter from Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu Part II Pranayam. Plus the...
NOTE: With the translation of Krishnamacharya's second book Yogasanagalu ( Mysore 1941 - 3rd edition with additional chapter 1972) now complete, I'm just putting the finishing touches on a free to...
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Origins of Ashtanga Vinyasa: Yogasanagalu and Yoga Korunta (yogakuranti)...
Perhaps some quick posts with some lines that have caught my eye in rereading Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu (Mysore 1941), finally translated into English.First up, a tantalising Bibliography,...
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Specifics of the breath in yoga asana - Notes from Krishnamacharya's...
Krishnamacharya gets quite specific with regard to the breath in Yogasanagalu (Mysore 1941)."In pranayama practice (yogangabhyasis), inhalation and exhalation motion is performed using both nostrils,...
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On Vinyasa: "Yogasanas must be only practiced with vinyasas and never without...
from my book Krishnamacharya's Original Ashtanga, Print version available from Lulu HEREfrom Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalau (Mysore 1941"Yogasanas must be only practiced with vinyasas and never...
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A post on visiting Mysore after reaching fifty.
I posted this question to an earlier post on fb this last week.Krishnamacharya aged fifty (Mysore)http://tinyurl.com/zsk5tmy'After fifty can you practice what you want in Mysore?'It's a nice idea."For...
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Trailer: Mysore Yoga Traditions
from my previous postBut perhaps there is a context to this practice, Krishnamacharya taught and practiced in Mysore, as did all the boys of the palace, Pattabhi Jois assisted, led at times on his...
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Pranidhi Varshney Led videos: Full Ashtanga Primary, Hallf and 15-20 mins...
A while back I was looking for a couple of demonstration videos of the Ashtanga primary series devided up into full practice, half and short for a friend. I like this from one of Manju's favourite...
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Videos: Krishnamacharya's shoulderstand and headstand Vinyasas, Mysore 1938,...
My good friend Óscar Montero has put together some excellent videos of Srivatsa Ramaswami's recent Intensive in Madrid. Ramaswami', here teaching the very same Vinyasa's that his teacher of thirty plus...
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Advice - Sanskrit Chants - Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami November 2016
NOTE: Not a huge fan of chanting but one of the great pleasures of attending Ramaswami's workshops, intensives or TT's is lying in savasana after a three hour practice (asana, pranayama, pratyahara,...
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Videos: Krishnamacharya's shoulderstand and headstand Vinyasas, Mysore 1938,...
My good friend Óscar Montero has put together some excellent videos of Srivatsa Ramaswami's recent Intensive in Madrid. Ramaswami', here teaching the very same Vinyasa's that his teacher of thirty plus...
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"Nowadays......." T. Krishnamacharya
"So much of the traditional knowledge we had, even what I have seen in my early days, is now gone, lost."T. KrishnamacharyaAll quotes including the context of the quotes given below the photographs are...
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Movie: BKS Iyengar, Leap of Faith (2008) - Did Krishnamacharya teach a three...
BKS Iyengar 1938 - See Appendix 3. for the 1938 film footageNow this is curious. I was just watching the documentary Leap of Faith, on BKS Iyengar (see below) and twelve minutes in in I came across...
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Question: Was the Ashtanga Vinyasa count developed merely to test the boys of...
Above Krishnamacharya's Yoga school for the boys of the Mysore palace, set up in 1933 by Krishnamacharya's patron the Maharaja of Mysore (photo from Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda pub. Mysore...
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Simon Borg-Olivier interview, the Bohr effect and why it can be beneficial to...
In two recent fb posts Simon Borg-Olivier quoted a couple of sections of our interview from a couple of years back. I find It's hard to read anything more than a few lines on fb so thought I would re...
View ArticleGuna Physiology - Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami December 2016
December 2016 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--Guna Physiology I am planning to go to India for three months from mid December. During 2017 I have scheduled two main programs . A 100 hour TT...
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Book Review. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor The Art of Vinyasa. Awakening...
Here was my first reaction to Richard and Mary's new book on fb yesterdayThank you to Shambhala for the review copy of Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor's long awaited 'Art of Vinyasa', my new desert...
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YogaGlo 15 day Free trial - Exploring Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor's...
Richard Freeman on YogaGloFollowing on from my previous post and my review of Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor's new book 'The Art of Vinyasa Awakening the Body and Mind through the practice of...
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Ashtanga for (relative) beginners: Joey Miles: learning the Sanskrit names...
A couple of videos from Stu Girling and Purple valley with Joey Mileshttp://www.yogagoa.com/I thought the first one, a call and response of the Ashtanga vinyasa Sanskrit names, an excellent...
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Richard Freeman's Vicarious Yoga, being stopped at a posture and the hidden...
Long title but we're off to see snow monkeys (more on that later) so need to cram the two or three posts I've had in my mind into one.This from Richard on fb this morning, always a good...
View ArticleYoga 2017 - January 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
WISH YOU A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2017.In January 2017 I am scheduled to teach a 50 hr 10 day program on Bhagavatgita for Yoga Practitioners at Yaga Vahini, Chennai starting Jan 2nd. Then I will be...
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