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Manju Jois TT Pt 1 0f 4 : Photo preview: Manju's Workshop in Rethymno, Crete
Posts to come, quick photo preview while I collect my notes and thoughts.Wonderful time, beautiful place, generous people.An education, eye-opener, game changerand practice... good, common sense,...
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Manju Jois TT pt 2 of 4 : Ashtanga Adjustments ?
Here's a picture from the Adjustment workshop element of Manju's TT course in Crete last week.(NB: If you see yourself in any of these pictures and would rather not have them posted here let me know...
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Manju Jois TT pt 3 of 4 : Practice
The order of these posts is a bit mixed up, I should probably have written this practice post before the earlier Adjustment/Assist post then the Q and A, oh well.Bit rushed too this one, tidy it up...
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Manju Jois TT Crete Assist/Adjustment videos/ photos
Here's an extra post on a couple of videos I took on the course. I've asked permission from Maria and Paris to use them and they kindly gave the go ahead.See the earlier post on AdjustmentsManju Jois...
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A fantasy: This is new, thoughts on (me) teaching
A fantasy: This is new, thoughts on (me) teachingCurious thing, since I came back from Manju's TT course I've begun to think about teaching Ashtanga.OK, admittedly it was supposedly a TT, a teacher's...
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Manju TT Crete pt 4a of 4 : Q and A - Development of the Ashtanga series etc.
One of the delights of Manju's Teacher training course in Crete was the relaxed, informal question and answer sessions at the end of the day. Manju was constantly asking for any more questions,...
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Sharath's video ' Guru to go' - "If everything was easy, there would no charm...
Still catching up on what I missed while I was away.This video on Sharath came out made by Alessandro Sigismondi who I met on Manju's course last week, he was there shooting a documentary, this time on...
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Manju Jois TT course Pt4b of 4 : Questions and Answers - Rishi series? When...
Manju basically said on his TT course in Crete last week, that he saw himself more as a messenger than a teacher (or guru), just passing on what his father had taught to him.Here's more of the...
View ArticleRamaswami's Vinyasa Krama slideshows plus Yoga sutra chant, 10 Vedic peace...
Ramaswami has been busy while I've been away in Crete and working on the transcripts of the Q and A from Manju's course. There are the Slide shows made up of the pictures from his book The complete...
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NEW: Manju Jois TT course Part 4C of 4 : Questions and Answers - Friday,...
More transcriptions from Manju's TT In Crete last week. This transcription is from the final Q and A session, just last Friday in fact (Has it really only been a week?)Below: Manju on Advanced...
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New Manju Pattabhi Jois Resource Page to sit at the top of the Blog
This is just a post to Introduce a new Stand- Alone Page at the top of the blog devoted to all things Manju.-------------A stand alone page with all things related to Manju Pattabhi Jois.This is a work...
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Vinyasa Explained - September 2013 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami
Note: I've added the images (screenshots of some of the links) to Ramaswami's newsletters. GrimmlyWarm Greetings!First, a Ganesa prayer ..A short Ganesa prayer in Tamil which I chant at the beginning...
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Ashtanga and Zen - Come breathe with us video
Excellent video from Alessandro Sigismondi shot on and around Manju's TT course in Rethymno, Crete.Lovely guy Alessandro, seems he reads my blog occasionally as when we met on the course he asked me...
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OPEN - Ashtanga and Vinyasa Krama Yoga Maidenhead
Curious how these things happen, a playful idea, a half thought.... and before you know it, before you've thought it through....This is what happened last week, a half-thought, that I might actually...
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More thoughts on opening an Ashtanga and Vinyasa Krama practice space.
M. bought home flowers for the shala to celebrate it's openingIt's struck me that opening a practice space, so close upon the heels of Manju's TT course may give the wrong impression.A week with Manju...
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Excellent News! More of Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu Translation - For...
We've had to wait for some time, since January in fact, on account of Satya's other commitments, including a trip to Mysore I believe where he had the chance to receive some assistance from friends...
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1974 Ashtanga syllabus, on the wall of the new shala plus the even older 1941...
New edition to the wall of the new shalaSee this link to the page that sits at the top of the blog concerning this syllabus.'Original' 1974 Ashtanga yoga Syllabus"In fact, David and I had no idea that...
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Notes to self: Ashtanga and the breath. The only one you need to impress is...
A sprawling post, bits and pieces from half written posts that seemed to cut and paste in my head as well as here...but what to call it?Vayu.British Museum. Gouache painting on paper (watermarked 1814)...
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Manju's Led Primary at Stillpoint Yoga Yesterday
Nice led primary with Manju at Stillpoint Yoga yesterday. See, I'm getting out more.....Not sure I see myself making it a regular occurrence, quite a palava getting there and back ( although Scott says...
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Ashtanga and Zen 2 - Mirror of Zen /// A Day in the Moment of a Modern Zen Monk
You might have noticed a video I posted last week by Alessandro ( Happy Birthday for yesterday Alessandro) about Ashtanga....and Zen in Crete.I mentioned that while on Manju's TT course last month I...
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