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Still No Primary, Manju TT Looming
Man in Despair: Gillham park Kansas City, MO - No need to despair, vajrasana worksRelates to this post on lower back painAfter a week of modified 2nd with the merest hint of forward bends in Standing I...
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In defence of Ashtanga, a comment response.
UPDATEThank you to everyone who has commented thus far on this a 'spur of the moment' post that was just supposed to be somewhere to put a long comment that I'd had to split into three on the previous...
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Duhkha - July 2013 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
Warm summer Greetings! As I have been writing my 200 hr Vinyasakrsma Yoga Teacher Training Program registered with Yoga Alliance is scheduled to start on July 8th at Loyola Marymount University, Los...
View ArticleWhy I (continue to) blog about my Ashtanga practice
I was asked this question by a friend."Can I ask you a slightly personal question? Pls don't answer if you don't wish to. Why do you write? This blog, this way, this dedication to sharing?...
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Ashtanga History
This is just a post to launch a new stand-alone page sitting at the top of the blog that I've called Ashtanga HistorySri. K. Pattabhi JoisIt's a new page bringing together some of the posts I've put up...
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I wanted to separate the old Ashtanga videos out from the previous post on Ashtanga history so I can link to them separately from the new Ashtanga History page at the top of the blog, perhaps give the...
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Updated: The way back - Six weeks off regular practice...Manju looming ever...
After all that History, some narrativeA soap, a hospital drama perhaps....Let me see it's been a little over six weeks since I got the viral throat infection,no ujjayi no practice or at least not much...
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The Way Back (to practice) - 2
It's not a Soap of course, just practice, each one following the next.See previous postUpdated: The way back - Six weeks off regular practice...Manju looming ever largerBut narratives can be useful...
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Eddie Stern and Namarupa: Long term aid efforts. Ravada Village, Uttarkashi...
LINK TO NAMARUPAfrom Robert Moses and Eddie SternPublishers of namarupaJai Ganga MataDear AnthonyThank you to all those people who have kindly donated towards long term aid efforts in Ravada Village,...
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Updated: The Way Back (to practice) - 3 ASHTANGABOTS
Your not going to believe this, I don't believe this, I now have a cold.for context seeThe way back (to practice) -2Updated: The way back - Six weeks off regular practice...Manju looming ever...
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" we have not understood or studied the concepts ( of Yoga ) or brought them...
"We can clearly state that the blame for this is that while we have read the books required for the knowledge of yoga to shine, we have not understood or studied the concepts or brought them into our...
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The Way back (to practice) - 4. Ashtanga hero
See my previous post for background to this arcUpdated: The Way Back (to practice) - 3 ASHTANGABOTSThe Way backNow if you want some serious 'WAY BACK' blog posts, take a trip over toThe Journey of my...
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The Way Back ( to practice ) - 5 CRASH
It was all going so well, stringing a few half Primary's together, started to think that the Kidney stone from the left kidney might be of a different kind, the smoother pebbly variety, smaller too...
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The Way back (to practice) - 6 Pain Meditation
"...Now observe even more carefully, as though the pain were a living being in its own right, as though it were, for example, a lizard on a wall. How and when will this creature move"?Shinzen Young -...
View ArticleThe way back ( to practice) - 7 what practice
I was optimistic this morning, thought that having upped the naproxene dosage Saturday I'd be able to manage a short practice this morning. Nothing fancy, Vinyasa Krama Tadasana perhaps a couple of...
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Ashtanga and Sweat : Avoiding TOO sweaty an Ashtanga practice
A strategy for approaching Ashtanga practice for Kidney stone formers. But perhaps not JUST for Kidney stone formersIncludes:Kidney Stone Risk Greatly Increases in Summer MonthsShould only Kidney stone...
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Ashtanga Yoga in one image - mahamudra
"A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound." -Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons p84Something timeless here...a lifetime of teachinga life time of studya life time...
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The Way Back ( to practice) - 8. One posture, it can be enough
Here's something curious, and that ties together perhaps my two previous posts, the one on Krishnamacharya's mahamudra and the earlier one on Ashtanga and Sweat.In the instructions for mahamudra from...
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Today is My teacher Srivatsa Ramaswami's Birthday - Resources
Today is my teacher's 74th birthdayRamaswami is currently teaching his 200hr Vinyasa Krama teacher training at LMU in LA, the same course I took in 2010, I have wonderful memories of those five weeks...
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Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Birthday - Resources
In a comment on the my previous post, Today is My teacher Srivatsa Ramaswami's Birthday - Resources Steve suggested I do something similar for what would have been Pattabhi Jois' birthday this...
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