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Letting go of attachment and watching distinctions dissolve
http://www.existentialbuddhist.com/2011/02/letting-go/Yesterday I received a comment on an old post"Amazing ! This is cool! "The old post was this one and starts like thisTuesday, 1 January...
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The 200hr TT course I took with Ramaswami in 2010. Registration for this June...
Ramaswami with Krishnamacharya, he studied with him for over 30 years.This is the 200hr TT course I took with Ramaswami in 2010, I can't recommend it enough. I had no intention of teaching when I took...
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Preview / Review : David Garrigues' Vayu Siddhi, Pranayama DVD/book set
"Well it's like…asana, pranayama, limbs three and four….. so your supposed to be establishing the asana practice first but I also think there's a lot of value in doing a separate breathing practice ,...
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Day 1 Guest post: Workshop Report - Gregor Maehle's Workshop Kapalabhati and...
picture from North Sydney YogaLast weekend Chiara Ghiron, a friend who occasional comments here, mentioned that she was on her way to Gregor's Maehle's Hamburg workshop. I asked her if she might be...
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Day 2 Guest post: Workshop Report - Gregor Maehle's Workshop - Asana and Yoga...
Continued from Day 1(Kapalabhati and Pranayama)Guest post by Chiara Ghironwww.theyogicat.comDAY 2 - Asana and Yoga meditationI expected Gregor to just touch on the seated asanas after what he had said...
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Day 3 Guest post: Workshop Report - Gregor Maehle's Workshop - Nauli Kriya...
Continued from Day 2 (Asana and Yoga meditation)Guest post by Chiara Ghironwww.theyogicat.comDAY 3 (final) day - Nauli Kriya and Led classAt the beginning of the Mysore class Gregor reminded everybody...
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Updated: Superman bound - Sick for a month!
See, to me as a kid, it wasn't that he was indestructible (except for the green rock- which I never believed could harm him anyway, merely a literary requirement ) or that he could fly, although that...
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East meets West: Swara Yoga - Breathing, nostril dominance etc, some...
http://www.amazon.com/Swara-Yoga-Swami-Mukti-Bodhananda/dp/8185787360Here's the section on nostril dominance from Chiara's notes to Gregor Maehle workshop"Gregor stressed again the difference between...
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"Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, forever!" - Name the tweaked muscle (modelled...
"No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt? I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun, Has it not seen? The Sea, in storm or calm,...
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AYA2 (Ashtanga) House recommendations....for the Home Ashtangi
I mentioned last week that the AYA2 (Ashtanga) House Recommendations were being turned into a small booklet designed by Laura Shaw Feit of Small Blue pearls and http://lshawdesign.com. Well, here it is...
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Back pain follow up (this morning's modified practice) and peek inside of...
Phew, long title.I added the update below to my back pain post from a couple of days ago, the one where I use the Feminist Ryan Gosling as a model for where I'm feeling the pain, thought it could have...
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More on the back pain (yawn) but some videos of modified practice including...
The idea here is not so much to cling on to my practice, could stay in bed longer and study or do extra pranayama and meditation....what I'm aiming at is keeping the area around the injury strong and...
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Advanced Budokon Yoga Transitions - by Cameron Shayne - Floating and...
So you can watch my slow, modified for back pain, Surynamaskara from this mornings post OR you can watch this stunning, floaty transition video instead.Thank you to James for the heads up on this, for...
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Some closure to the back problem story arc
Just to close up the back problem story that's been going on all week.Feeling a lot better this morning, still a twinge there, enough for me to tell Boodiba in a comment early this morning that I'd...
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Krishnamacharya and headstands, also Ramaswami's Inverted sequence and the...
My friend Ryan http://www.ryanleier.com posted a picture of Krishnamacharya in Sirsasana (headstand) on fb today with this quote from Indra Devi."Sri Krishnamacharya used to tell me: 'Do the Headstand...
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Guest post: Visitor report from Kino and Tim's Miami Life Centre - Mysore...
In a recent comment Matthias mentioned that he was currently in Miami on a week long intensive at Kino and Tim's Miami Life centre, I asked him if he fancied writing a guest post....and here it is, we...
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Ashtanga Yoga: Ann Arbor workshop for beginners - Angela Jamison
Thank you to Rose for posting these 'bootlegs' of Angela Jamison's Intro to Ashtanga from AYA2http://yogarose.netAYA2http://www.ashtangaannarbor.comIn this Ashtanga Yoga: Ann Arbor workshop for...
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Book(let) Review : Ashtanga yoga Anusthana - R. Sharath Jois
New Rug and Sharath's book(let) arrivedI mentioned in a previous post that I didn't yet have a copy of Sharath's recently released book on the Ashtanga Primary series and was waiting for it to turn up...
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If not forward bends then backbends.....
If not Primary then 2nd....If not Sury's then TadasanaIf not the Standing then SirsasanaIf not Sirsasana then Savasana....and the breath.
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If you had to choose one Ashtanga book...?
I wrote in my previous post on Sharath's 'new' book Ashtanga yoga Anusthana"Personally, if you're only going to buy one Ashtanga book ( yeah right) then I'd say stick with Pattabhi Jois' own Yoga Mala...
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