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Book Review: Yoga for the three stages of Life. My 'all time favourite' book...
Despite this being my favourite book of Ramaswami's and probably the best book on yoga I've come across, I don't seem to have given the book a standalone review on the blog. Time to make amends, so...
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Underwater Yoga on Bhaya kumbhaka and Krishnamacharya's one kumbhaka vinyasa.
On fb this week I saw a video of my friend Simon Borg-Olivier (http://simonborgolivier.com/) practicing his Spinal movements sequence underwater....The video isn't on youtube but you should be able to...
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What, an Ashtanga class doesn't have a theme?
Krishnamacharya aged 84A good friend was telling me about her upcoming yoga class and how she hadn't yet thought of a theme for the class.I mentioned how alien this concept of 'theme' was to me, coming...
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सञ्चार (sañcāra) Free flow - July 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--
सञ्चार (sañcāra) FreeflowIn my May 2009 Newsletter I had included an article on Yoga for the Heart wherein I attempted to explain the procedures that are available in Yoga to help the heart doing its...
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Ashtanga for night shift workers..... or home practitioners in general. Also...
With the hot humid summer, the mat is having to share the tatami room with the futon.Having just switched to working nights for the next three months, I thought it might make for a good...
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Ashtanga and Ageing: The games we played.... Should Advanced (demonstration?)...
If we accept, and this comes from Krishnamacharya and Pattabhi Jois themselves, that the Advanced asana were intended for demonstration purposes....., should we be practicing such advanced asana...
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One breath/kumbhaka an asana/variation - Paschimottanasana. (Rishi series?)...
Recently, in my practice I've been exploring ONE BREATH AN ASANA, holding the state of the asana while exploring an appropriate kumbhaka. Note: You don't necessarily have to change your whole practice...
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Simon Borg-Olivier made me fall in love with my SPINE all over again.
This full class by Simon Borg-Olivier in Bali, for Stu at Love Yoga anatomy....https://loveyogaanatomy.com/interview-with-simon-borg-olivier/This is a wonderful presentation of much that you can find...
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Spinal and Active movements.: After ten years, a moving away from Ashtanga...
Siva (Nataraja)Makes me think of Simon Borg-Olivier's active movement.Period:Chola period (880–1279)Date:ca. 11th centuryCulture:Indian (Tamil Nadu)Medium:Copper alloyDimensions:H. 26 7/8 in. (68.3...
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Work in progress: Sirsasana (headstand) to Gomukhasana and back, to Baddha...
This post relates to my previous postSpinal and Active movements.: After ten years, a moving away from Ashtanga Vinyasa somewhat?and Simon Borg-Olivier made me fall in love with my spine all over...
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Vyasa and Ganesa - August 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
I am in Los Angeles teaching a 50 hour 10 day program on Bhagavatgita in the teaching of Krishnamacharya to a compact nice group. I have six more days to go. I am also teaching in the evenings a 20...
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'Traditional' Ashtanga Vinyasa (Krama ) practice?
Krishnamacharya Mysore 1934At the time Krishnamacharya was teaching the young Pattabhi Jois.This niralumba sarvangasana variation never made it into Jois' Ashtanga Vinyasa presentation of his teachers...
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Was the Ashtanga Primary series 'designed' as Yoga Therapy?
I do find this therapeutic 'design' argument for the Ashtanga Primary series in the recent Sonima article ( link below) puzzeling. The suggestion here is that the Primary series was designed for it's...
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Hands free lotus / padmasana, "...ideally it should be like folding the arms"...
Krishnamacharya"Similarly, the natural activity of ‘crossing your arms’ allows us to appreciate the difference between ‘tensing’ muscles as opposed to simply ‘activating’ muscles by ‘doing an action’....
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Guest post : Ashtanga practice and CIRCULO BLANCO - Recovery Center for Drugs...
Recently I came across a series of photos from Malini Yoga Shala in Mexico on an fb share.I contacted the Shala to ask for the story behind the photos and received this honest, generous commentary.I...
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Langhana Kriya - the reduction, exhalation, principle
from Srivatsa Ramaswami's Complete Book of vinyasa yoga Based on the teaching of T. Krishnamacharya(Ramaswami was a student of Krishnamacharya's for 30+ years)."In some of these back bends, it may be...
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Pushpam (Yoga) Magazine Issue 3 - Review/Look Inside - Yoga magazine from...
New edition of Pushpam Magazine is out, Pushpam 3, with a stunning Ganesha cover.from the website"Pushpam is a quarterly (or so) yoga magazine. It is published by Hamish Hendry of Astanga Yoga London....
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Was the Ashtanga Primary series 'designed' as Yoga Therapy?
I do find this therapeutic 'design' argument for the Ashtanga Primary series in the recent Sonima article ( link below) puzzeling. The suggestion here is that the Primary series was designed for it's...
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Current practice, Is it still Ashtanga or is Ashtanga Vinyasa more a state of...
Perhaps it's more that consistent, focussed, daily practice has come to characterise Ashtanga Vinyasa. Perhaps whatever I were to practice, if I just went for a swim in the lake each morning,...
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LOOK INSIDE - Manju Jois' new book, Yoga Chikitsa: Health and Healing...
A friend (Thank you so much) sent me a few pages from their copy of Manju's new book, Yoga Chikitsa. I haven't received a copy of my own yet so this isn't a review so much as a first LOOK INSIDE as the...
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