This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing the Great yoga teacher demonstrating asana and pranyama. He was the teacher of BKS Iyengar and Sri K. Pattahbi Jois, founder the Astanga style of yoga.
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cspace1234nz
on December 19 2009
True, and the other …
True, and the other interesting thing is that yoga was traditionally taught one on one, not in “classes” and workshops, it was a personal and intimate thing between a teacher and student.
The major focus came onto asana when it became apparent just how much money could be made by leveraging your time and teaching in multiples.
“Functional creep” as I call it is when slowly but surely the original purity of intent is broken down until it has been pretty much lost altogether.
400miler
on December 19 2009
Many from yoga. …
Many from yoga. YogaRay – rayofbooks. r u
AsleepOnTheBeach
on December 19 2009
I agree with cspace …
I agree with cspace. It’s to bad most of the Yoga taught here roots with him. At the time, (20’s to 40’s) yoga was in a sorry state in India. Under British rule yoga had become unpopular and many of the Yoga families disappeared. If you can find a Yoga studio not in the Krisnamacharya tradition go take classes. I’ve been lucky enough to find a Yoga Center like this with a teacher from India who come from a “Yoga” family. The differences are useful.
cspace1234nz
on December 19 2009
Well my personal …
Well my personal views of course and it’s sure hard to write a reasonable answer to your questions in such a short space but here is a question for you for a start….where did you get the word “shala” from ?
In short it’s my view that Krisnamacharya started the ball rolling with the focus on gymnastics and it snowballed from there with the two main schools as you mentioned and to possibly a lesser degree with his son. As soon as they married these styles with the US dollar….well ???
shimgumdo
on December 19 2009
I was curious about …
I was curious about your contention that Krishnamacharya might be the father of “absolutely bastardised yoga gymnastics…”, and wondered if you meant that the two schools that emanated from his shala – those of Iyengar and Jois – were a basterdised form of a more pure form of the practice. If indeed this is what you meant, I’d love to know what that form is (or was). Your implication is that Krishnamcharya himself is the source the denegration. Not defensive here – just hoping to dig deeper.
cspace1234nz
on December 19 2009
Be specific ?
Be specific ?
shimgumdo
on December 19 2009
Can you elaborate?
Can you elaborate?
cspace1234nz
on December 19 2009
Ahhhh, yes, …
Ahhhh, yes, Krisnamacharya, probably the modern-day “father” of what we know to be the absolutely bastardised yoga gymnastics we see on every second street these days.
Now for suggesting this I suppose all you pseudo-spiritual party-trick yoga performers out there will give me the thumbs down….but before you do, know that I am a long-term yoga teacher in both the Astanga and Iyengar traditions, so what would I be saying this do you think ??
aidybop
on December 19 2009
not exactly a good …
not exactly a good role model for armchair vegetarians…
martyrindia
on December 19 2009
Good research buddy …
Good research buddy. I prefer eating BEEF which improves ur caliber.Hindus eat Grass and go down the civilization and spitting on roads. U know More prostitutes in the world come from Hindu society because husband are nul on bed so they go screwing them selves and earn their livelyhood.
quantumreality2009
on December 19 2009
Lions don’t eat …
Lions don’t eat salads perhaps due to the fact that they don’t really know what a salad is…or maybe because their frontal lobe is so small that they just eat whatever moves…by the way Luke how come Lions brains are not as big as humans with all the meat they’ve been eating for thousands of more years than us poor “homo sapiens” have for centuries…Hindus do have a higher incidence of above average IQs (and income) and an equally high preference for non-meat products…explain that one…
Taurus8763
on December 19 2009
I think this is …
I think this is better for your body than tai chi…
ThisSongsShit
on December 19 2009
thanks for the …
thanks for the compliment! and yes, my
balls do smell a bit like marzipan today.
Lukeziu
on December 19 2009
Meat and hard work, …
If several generations of the same line would be vegeterians, they will revolve back to apes. Good luck vegeterians in your fight against a human nature, I’ll keep on eating meat and I know where it comes from, because I never eat at fast food. Did vegeterians ever thought why lions don’t like salad?
Meat and hard work, made an ape a human being. It is proved scientificaly, that homo sapiens brains got bigger when they started to eat meat, so make conclusions youself
ryanR71
on December 19 2009
i only eat beef …
i only eat beef from my fathers farm i’m glad to do the killing myself.
Dazast
on December 19 2009
I meant Apathy… …
I meant Apathy… sorry.
Dazast
on December 19 2009
“oh my god no yoga …
“oh my god no yoga mat made from petroleum products”
Love it… I thought I was the only one saying that.
Dazast
on December 19 2009
Wow that’s …
Wow that’s interesting. I’v had the same exact theory for some time now, but never looked into it before.
I’ll tell you, living in New York is hard sometimes. I can feel a lot of pain from people when I’m on the train.
Dazast
on December 19 2009
I know how you feel …
I know how you feel about the new age movement, and the empathy that comes with it. So, I’m not trying to call you out or anything like that.
Dazast
on December 19 2009
I’ve been hearing …
I’ve been hearing that for years from people, that haven’t fully studied or experimented with being a vegetarian…
The charge that you’re talking about is enzymes, that can come from any living thing. I’ve been a vegetarian for almost 12years and have been doing fine, feeling good, and most importantly, knowing where my food comes from.
There was a front page article on the NY Times 2 or 3 weeks ago, about a girl that’s paralyzed from eating a burger. they wash the meat with ammonia.
carolealdrich
on December 19 2009
I’m not a total …
I’m not a total vegetarian, but try to eat less meat and watch what I eat in terms of agrobusiness. I must admist that if I had to kill it and dress it, I would be a total vegetarian. I guess that makes me hypocritical. I’m glad to let someone else do the killing.
JesusPaid4You
on December 19 2009
Jesus (Yeshua) is …
Jesus (Yeshua) is the Messiah!
According to God, we are all sinners, and the penalty is eternal death! The good news is that God loves us so much He sent His Son Jesus to die for our sins for us. Jesus was crucified and was buried, but God raised Him from the dead. Jesus is YHWH, the Lord God. Confess your sin to God and ask Him for forgiveness. Call upon and believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. You will be forgiven and will inherit eternal life by believing in Jesus Christ.
Witchcrownedwithweed
on December 19 2009
Meat’s necessary …
Meat’s necessary for health.The problem’s that today the diet’s based on too much meat.Meat should be eaten only once a week or so, and it’s better to eat white meat or fish instead of red meat.We’re omnivores, we shouldn’t forget that. We’ve the brain we’ve because we ate meat and that helped us develop our capabilities.Today most animals are exploited to obtain meat, but the solution is easy, just by ecological meat and eggs. Also soya spoils the world, so eat as what u r and shut the up
Erwasns
on December 19 2009
Turning into …
Turning into hunters probably mades us in what we are today. We do not need to eat al day long, and also in times of draught, we were able to survive. And we went from Africa to the north, because also in colder parts, there was enough food for us, because we were meateaters! That also is the reason why the bigger animals in Australien and America are extinct now: we suddendly came and hunted them down.
Erwasns
on December 19 2009
Chimpansees also …
Chimpansees also eat meat. Wenn they have the possibility, they will kill small animals in groups, mostly the young of other apes. They also eat a lot of termites (you know, they use a stick for that), which gives them a lot of protein.