December 2016 Newsletter from Srivatsa Ramaswami--Guna Physiology I am planning to go to India for three months from mid December. During 2017 I have scheduled two main programs . A 100 hour TT Vinyasakrama Yoga program which I will be doing in Chennai (Yogavahini, Feb 2017), Sydney Australia (Yoga Institute, April 2017) and Montreal, Canada (Oneyoga Sep 2017). I will also be doing a 50 hr Bhagavatgita for Yogis program at Chennai (Yogavahini Jan 2017) and Los Angeles (LMU Aug 2017). A couple of shorter programs are also scheduled. A...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Sunday, 20 November 2016
In two recent fb posts Simon Borg-Olivier quoted a couple of sections of our interview from a couple of years back. I find It's hard to read anything more than a few lines on fb so thought I would re post here.I will include the full video below but see this post for the full transcriptionhttp://grimmly2007.blogspot.jp/2014/05/interview-with-simon-borg-olivier.html"Here is part of the (edited) interview my friend Anthony Grim Hall did with me when...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Above Krishnamacharya's Yoga school for the boys of the Mysore palace, set up in 1933 by Krishnamacharya's patron the Maharaja of Mysore (photo from Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda pub. Mysore 1934).Schools tend to have a syllabus, exams (diploma's)...., don't they?"In 1935 having cleared the Primary, Elementary and Advanced diploma course in yoga he (BKS Iyengar) stood first in 98% marks". (Leap of Faith 12:33). See my previous...
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
BKS Iyengar 1938 - See Appendix 3. for the 1938 film footageNow this is curious. I was just watching the documentary Leap of Faith, on BKS Iyengar (see below) and twelve minutes in in I came across this...."In 1935 having cleared the Primary, Elementary and Advanced diploma course in yoga he (BKS Iyengar) stood first in 98% marks (12:33)".This suggests perhaps that at Krishnamacharya's Mysore yoga school in the 1930s, when Pattabhi Jois was...
Thursday, 10 November 2016
"So much of the traditional knowledge we had, even what I have seen in my early days, is now gone, lost."T. KrishnamacharyaAll quotes including the context of the quotes given below the photographs are from AG Mohan's excellent biography of Krishnamacharya (LINK TO AMAZON)Krishnamacharya sometimes expressed sadness over the decline of ancient practices and authentic dedication to the deeper practices of yoga. "So much of the traditional knowledge...
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