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"Huge variety of Krishnamacharya`s teachings" - Wild Yogi Interview -...
Warm Greetings from NJ. In August I taught a well attended 50 hr ten day program on Bhagavat Gita at Loyola Marymount University based on the teachings of Sri Krishnamacharya. I will be doing this...
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Deep backbending , it's encouragement and promotion by KPJAYI
from Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda (Mysore 1934)I'm bumping into this video all over the place this week...I'm bumping into this video all over the place this week.What somebody does or doesn't do...
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Krishnamacharya on Pranayama and Bandhas from the Wild Yogi interview with...
In Ramaswami's newsletter this month ( see THIS blog post), he included his long interview with Wild Yogi, below is the section on how Krishnamacharya taught Ramaswami Pranayama and Bandhas over the...
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Twenty-One rhetorical, 'Is it still Ashtanga?' questions.
Just stumbled upon this 2012 video of Simon Borg-Olivier in Moscow. A nice straight forward presentation of the Yogasynergy spinal movements that I'm enjoying practicing so much.At 2:35 Simon then...
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Current practice: Dropping Standing, Seated and moving straight to...
Dropping Standing, seated Primary postures and moving straight to inversions of late, felt like quite a radical departure, I kinda like it.The argument is that the effects of standing postures are...
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REVIEW: Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss' Yoga Synergy 12 week online...
REVIEW: Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss' Yoga Synergy 12 week online Yoga Therapy Course, 'Therapeutic applications of movement and breathing: yoga therapy'....
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Yoga Therapy: Review Manju Jois' new book, Yoga Chikitsa and Simon Borg-...
Part 1. Review: Yoga Chikitsa : Healing Techniques and assistance -Manju Jois80 pagesfrom the publisherThe word yoga has three meanings; opportunity, prosperity and unification. Yoga is also the sacred...
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Krishnamacharya and Drishti
In Krishnamacharya's teaching drishti is of course mentioned in relation to the asana and indeed the breath, Krishnamacharya tends to focus on two gazing points, between the eyebrows (broomadhya...
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Ashtanga and weight loss, it's not the practice but the discipline. Also...
I almost regret making up this poster with the before and after photos.This post isn't about appearance but health (the photo on the left happens to be M's favourite), about more discipline in our...
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Krishnamacharya's one minute Uttihita Padangustasa
I'm currently exploring a longer Recaka kumbhaka (holding the breath out after the exhalation) in Krishnamacharya's one minute Uttihita Padangustasa, the description in Yoga Makaranda (Mysore 1934) is...
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Photo essay: Ashtanga? Vinyasa Krama? Krishnamacharya's early Mysore blah...
I was asked if I'm still practicing Ashtanga.I have no idea anymore what I practice, is it Ashtanga, early Krishnamacharya, late Krishnamacharya.... or just practice.*I tend to start my practice with a...
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Why do we always seem to look to the most extreme version of an asana?
Why do we always seem to look to the most extreme version of an asana, an ever more complicated, more intricate version? I've asked this question before hereConvince me Krishnamacharya are there any...
View ArticleJune 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--Posts on Bhagavad Gita, Yoga...
June 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--PostsThe Bhagavatgita is a Yoga Shastra or a Yogic text. Sri Krishnamacharya gave considerable importance to teaching the Gita as much as he gave to the...
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Current practice: Dropping (much of) Standing, Seated and moving straight to...
"For people over fifty, it is enough to practice some of the easier and more useful asanas, as well as some of the pranayamas." Pattabhi Jois -Yoga MalaBut why wait till fifty?Current practiceI seem to...
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Manju Jois - New Workshop video Q and A PLUS - what was Pattabhi Jois'...
Always nice to come across a video of Manju that I haven't seem before (this one from last year, posted By Natasha ) especially after recently reading Manju's new book.Still no LOOK INSIDE on Amazon...
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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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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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प्रत्यय pratyaya (State of Mind) - October 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa...
In September 2017 I taught an extended weekend program on Samkhya Karika at Chicago Yoga Center.I will be teaching a text योग याज्ञवल्क्यyoga yājñavalkya next September at Chicago Yoga Center.I am...
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Review: Mysore Yoga Tradition (documentary) and the inclusion of Surya...
T.R.S. SHARMA (Mysore 1941), the year Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu was published (available HERE)More photos of TRS Sharma's set of photos from the 1941 Life magazine shoot in the appendix as well as...
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How to handstand - Simon Borg-Olivier
A good friend recently asked me about handstands.Simon Borg-Olivier - lifting to handstandHandstands aren't something I tend to engage in much these days. Personally, lolasana and my shoulderstand and...
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