"The Gita is considered one of the three basic texts for Brahma Vidya or Vedanta along with the Brahma Sutras and the Upanishads. Several renowned philosophers have written commentaries on them like Ramanuja, Sankara and several others following their own orientations. But Gita is also a yoga sastra. It is common to find that at the end of each chapter the subject matter is referred to as in Brahma Vidya and in Yoga sastra (Brahma vidyayam yoga sastre ...). My Guru Sri Krishamacharya would say that the Gita is a yoga treatise as well and...
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Q: Just curious.....Since your approach to practice is so different now, why are you teaching M. the more straightforward ashtanga and not the way you practice?A: Good question. I still think straight Ashtanga is ideal for building discipline but then, once you have it, rather than looking outwards to the next asana and the next you can choose to turn inwards and explore the asana you have in other ways. First though, build the discipline, practicing...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
In Krishnamacharya's Mysore books, written in the period he was teaching the young Pattabhi Jois Krishnamacharya gives instructions for introducing short kumbhakas (breath retentions) during the practice of asana. This was an option that for some reason was never carried over into Pattabhi Jois's teaching of Modern Ashtanga vinyasa, perhaps Pattabhi Jois considered it an advanced option.The possible health benefits of Kumbhaka is something I discussed...
Sunday, 27 December 2015
Last week I was asked about the girl in Kurmasana in Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda, this time I've been asked if the boy demonstrating chakrasana ( or Triyangamukha Uttanasana) might be the young BKS Iyengar.Yoga Makaranda was first published in Mysore in 1934 and in the text Krishnamacharya directs the reader to study the photos carefully. Either the photos were taken for the book, which seems most likely or some had been taken previously,...
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Angelique Boudet let me know she had self published a book of Ashtanga Interviews I bought the Ebook and have posted some quotes below.The first friend I mentioned it too asked why would we want to buy a book of Ashtanga Interviews when we have Lu Duong going to all the trouble of interviewing Ashtanga teachers and posting the interviews for free on his site Ashtanga Parampara, there is an excellent interview with Tim Feldmann just uploaded...
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