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Qi Gong Yoga? Exploring Simon Borg-Olivier's teacher Zhen Hua Yang's...
Note: I've just brought together this post and earlier posts related to my current approach to practice as well as my posts on Simon Borg-Olivier in a new blog, just as I did with Vinyasa Krama and...
View Articleमाया māyā (Illusion) November 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswam
November 2017 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--माया māyā (Illusion)I am planning to go to India end November and stay there for about 4 months. I am scheduled to teach two programs at Yoga Vahini...
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Karana Krama and Are Qi Gong and Yoga complimentary or mutually exclusive?
"Karana Krama as part of the practice of hatha yoga has nothing to do with the aesthetics of Indian dance and the practice of martial arts, but the basic movements are borrowed from preparatory...
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'...the Yoga Korunta, which was written on palm leaves' - on preserving palm...
A new clip from the recent documentary, Mysore yoga Traditions.See my earlier review perhaps of the recent documentaryMysore yoga TraditionsTrailer at the end of the post.Preserving palm leaf...
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Reflections on going back through and deleting my facebook timeline 1. Also...
Conceit?Asana selfies used to to be about the work....., didn't they?Am I fooling myself, were they always about ego?My memory of the Cybershala was that we were all working together on postures in our...
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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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On deleting my fb timeline and Ashtanga as comfort food
Over the last couple of weeks I've gone about deleting my fb timeline. Fb doesn't like this it seems, they don't make it easy and you have to go back through the years deleting every photo, every post,...
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Inappropriate adjustments.
This post from Mary Taylor and Richard Freemen, while timely, feels long overdue. I was always hoping that somebody who was actually there would write about this, one reason I've held off on it for so...
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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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Inappropriate adjustments.
It's a little saddening, depressing in fact, how quiet so many teachers and long term Ashtanga practitioners are being with regard to the latest revelations regarding Pattabhi Jois and his...
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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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Underwater Yoga on Bhaya kumbhaka and Krishnamacharya's one kumbhaka vinyasa.
Part 1 Yoga asana underwaterPart 2 Krishnamacharya's one kumbhaka vinyasa.Part 3. Splashtanga 200hr TTOn fb this week I saw a video of my friend Simon Borg-Olivier (http://simonborgolivier.com/)...
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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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December 2017 - Update to my Pattabhi Jois Resource pageAll the articles below, as well as other responses I've seen, including my own, strike me as 'work in progress', a start....See this article from...
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2017 My year in posts
I probably moved the furthest from Ashtanga I've ever been this year, trimming my practice down to just ten postures in my Proficient Primary posts early in the year, treating those ten asana somewhat...
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Ashtanga Authorisation 1980 - Present. Includes first ONLINE teaching list...
Post originally from Mar 2006Updated.scroll half way down the post to the 2018 update on Mark RobberdsThis post will become a permanent page at the top of the blog, a work in progress attempt to chart...
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Learning the 'Original' Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
This has been sitting in draft for some time, finally finished it off.To reclaim the 'original' Ashtanga vinyasa yoga we need just two texts, published and provided freely by the Mysore Palace (free...
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Sharath's NEW KPJAYI Authorisation/Certification Code of Conduct. Sign it or...
This is a stand alone post for now but will end up as an update to my 'Ashtanga Authorisation 1980s to present' post as I kind of feel I've retired from posting and want to keep my end of year post as...
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Blog Relaunch - Independent Ashtanga Yoga Research....at Home
I'd planned to retire the blog with last years ''Year in posts', recent events however, make me feel that perhaps there is more to do....Pattabhi Jois' first trip to Encinitas (1975?).The internet is...
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Ashtanga teachers removed from the List - Manju Jois.
One of the most striking absurdities of Ashtanga's 'Listgate' (the removal of Certified teachers from the former KPJAYI.org list of teachers - now the Sharathjois.com list of teachers), is the removal...
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