Ashtanga yoga: Anyone interested in a Yoga Sutras reading group on Zoom? |
- Anyone interested in a Yoga Sutras reading group on Zoom?
- B.K.S. Iyengar teaching in 1974
- Srī K Pattabhi Jois: when and why did he end his personal āsana practice?
| Anyone interested in a Yoga Sutras reading group on Zoom? Posted: 25 Apr 2020 03:19 PM PDT We are meeting on Zoom tomorrow (sunday 4/24) night for the first session... first two sutras... 830pm EDT/ 530 pm PDT... A couple ashtangis and myself... all are welcome! [link] [comments] |
| B.K.S. Iyengar teaching in 1974 Posted: 25 Apr 2020 11:40 PM PDT While looking for an old article in Yoga Journal, I've found this recollection of B.K.S. Iyengar teaching in 1974, written in 1976, through the eyes of one of his early students. Could not help comparing this 'class' almost half a century ago with the 1000 online Zoom classes these days...change is the only constant in life indeed. "...driving some three hours out of Bombay, not knowing whether they would be really allowed to see him, they found themselves standing at last inside a small stone room with bars on the windows, observing Mr. Iyengar and a class of four students. [...] And I must say I was surprised at what I saw. I had been used to yoga teachers who said 'close your eyes, raise your right leg, don't try too hard', in darkened rooms, with candlelight and incense...There was Mr. Iyengar in this little stone room yelling at his students and beating at them and slapping them. He actually stood on their backs and walked on them." Full article here - "The lion and the lamb", by Elizabeth Kent (Yoga Journal July-August 1976, page 8) [link] [comments] |
| Srī K Pattabhi Jois: when and why did he end his personal āsana practice? Posted: 25 Apr 2020 11:24 AM PDT This question came up here the other day in a different thread. Some anecdotal references draw a connection to his son Ramesh's death; dates roughly coincide. David Williams writes he stopped practicing after sustaining injuries from a bicycle accident and then didn't take it up again. He devoted his life to āsana, so why then? Anyone with insight, please share. [link] [comments] |
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