Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
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A Krishnamacharya, Manju Jois and Richard Freeman inspired, Simon Borg-Olivier informed, slightly Vinyasa Krama modified, soft, slow, half Primary/half Second Series Ashtanga Yoga practice
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
4y ago
This is from an instagram post I put up yesterday that I feel should also be here on the blog.
It's probably going to be another rolling post that I will add to over time.
So this happened. Standing up from my seat on the train Friday I experienced intense lower back pain, I barely managed to stumble off the train and down the stairs to some seats. It was so bad that M. managed to talk this Englishman into actually going to the hospital. The X-Ray above ISN’T mine, it’s from a random image search (I'll try to find a link to where i found it), I forgot to ask for a photo of my own ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
4y ago
Clearing out the 'draft post' drawer Contents 1. From the Samkhya Karika 2. Why Meditation? What is the goal for Patanjali of Yoga 3. The Complete Samkhya Karika Appendix 1. Samkhya - Ramaswami's Newsletter Appendix 2. DHYANA - from YOGA BENEATH THE SURFACE Appendix 3. On Samyama - More from Yoga Beneath the surface - Appendix 4. Video -Yamini Murthanna ( a long time student of BNS Iyengar ) dances 'Manas'.
Yamini Murthanna, Bharatanatyam dancer (dates back 1000 years) and a long time student of BNS Iyengar see Appendix 4 below for videos ( Dancing 'Manas') and a link to my review ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
This has been sitting in draft for some time, finally finished it off.
To reclaim the 'original' Ashtanga vinyasa yoga we need just two texts, published and provided freely by the Mysore Palace (free downloads of both texts on my free download page above) Yoga Makaranda (Mysore 1934) Yogasanagalu (Mysore 1941) Both texts were written by Pattabhi Jois' teacher T. Krishnamacharya
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I say 'original' but really we have no idea if Krishnamacharya invented his approach to asana or carried it on from his teacher who possib ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
Given that I have promoted Ashtanga for the last ten years on this blog, I don't feel I can justify not sharing the links below, both here and on my Patabbhi Jois Resource page.
That said, this blog is about HOME practice, Krishnamacharya's approach to asana and the context in which he placed it. Assists, Adjustments, Mysore have little to do with home practice, the practice, I believe, stands on it's own. UPDATE
Julty 2019
NOTE: Following a number of enquiries, I wish to state that I personally will not be signing or promoting any 'Pledge' regarding a response to Pattabhi Jois' s ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
Update 14th feb 2018 New KPJAYI list This post will end up as an update on my Ashtanga Authorisation 1980s to present post and page.
http://www.kpjayshala.com/australia-and-new-zealand.html
The new KPJAYI (not the Sharathjois.com) list is up.
There seems to be some consternation that this list, while reinstalling many of the names clumsily removed by Sharath, is at least one year old.
If it's the case that Sharath wasn't a director, as is being suggested ( we need actual confirmation of this from Saraswati), but merely an employee, then the list, all the names on it and the fee ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
In Ramaswami's newsletter this month ( see THIS blog post), he included his long interview with Wild Yogi, below is the section on how Krishnamacharya taught Ramaswami Pranayama and Bandhas over the thirty years Ramaswami spent with his teacher
See my pranayama page for more http://grimmly2007.blogspot.jp/p/pranayama.html
The full interview along with many other excellent interviews can be found at the Wild yogi website
Huge variety Krishnamacharyas teachings interview Srivatsa Ramaswami
Questions: Yuri Sharonin, Ilya Zhuravlev
Krishnamacharya - Pranayama
Let's talk about Pranayama ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
Warm Greetings
Warm Greetings from NJ. In August I taught a well attended 50 hr ten day program on Bhagavat Gita at Loyola Marymount University based on the teachings of Sri Krishnamacharya. I will be doing this program again in New Delhi from about Mar 8 2018 at Mini Shastri's Omyoga. I will have the information posted im my website when the details are finalized. I also taught a 20 hr Vinyasakrama yoga program to a small group at LMU
Two years back thanks to the efforts of my senior yoga teacher friends Sara Mata and Arun Deva, I taught a 25 hour Bhagavat Gita program to a compact g ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
from Srivatsa Ramaswami's Complete Book of vinyasa yoga
Based on the teaching of T. Krishnamacharya
(Ramaswami was a student of Krishnamacharya's for 30+ years).
"In some of these back bends, it may be easier and more desirable to use a smooth exhalation rather than an inhalation. People who are obese, old and therefore less supple, anxious and tense, or have some medical conditions, such as hypertension, would do well to adopt exhalation, or langhana kriya, during these back bends".
LANGHANA KRIYA: literally, activity ofreduction; exhalation
"Please note that all the vinyasas in this ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
Despite this being my favourite book of Ramaswami's and probably the best book on yoga I've come across, I don't seem to have given the book a standalone review on the blog. Time to make amends, so coming soon a full review with all or at least many of my favourite bits.... This first post is more of an introduction to a series of posts that I'm considering for each chapter, a 'Look Inside' preview if you like, based on Ramaswami's own introduction on fb this week. I've come back to this book so many times over the last ten years, discovering something I'd missed completely each time that has ..read more
Ashtanga Vinyasa Krama Yoga at Home
5y ago
Link to Amazon
Friends have been getting in touch this week to ask me if I've seen or yet have a copy of AG Mohan and Dr. Ganeseha Mohan's new edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipka with notes from Krishnamacharya.
I don't, not yet.
I had a look on Amazon but there was no Look Inside preview feature, I mentioned this on the Svastha fb page ( LINK) and one appeared this morning, perhaps I was not the only one to ask.
So I've been having a look at the generous preview on amazon this morning and it appears to be quite marvellous, I just ordered my copy.
To be perfectly honest, I haven't b ..read more