Posts Tagged ‘primary series’
How To: suryanamaskara A
May 12, 2009 | 
Author I love requests and dedications. This one’s for you, Mandi. There are thousands of these clips on the net. Most are horrid. This one I chose for a number of reasons: his shorts are funny, he holds a stick (weird), he’s clearly a bit obsessive and mostly I love that the mic operator let the tip of the mic in the frame a few times. This version of suryanamaskara A is a tad ‘cheese’, a splotch ‘shmults’ and quite a good tool for learning the first small part of the Primary Series. Enjoy!
… and this clip is for good measure. The teacher in this class is Sri K. Pattabhi. He’s the ‘dude’ of Ashtanga yoga. Again, enjoy!
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More Amazing Ashtanga Pics
These pics are extremely motivational to me because, though private yoga practice is a pivotal part of the culture/learning, like anything Human-interested, there is an ever greater sense of the discipline and what it offers in Numbers. Check out these pics and maybe they will motivate you to carry on with your practice and find a wild and wonderful workshop somewhere on the planet to be a part of … just maybe!
R. Sharath in Tokyo (click for more)
by Govindakai (click for his photostream)
and pics from ashtanga intensive in Poland @babajagna’s photostream
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To Yoga DVD or to Not Yoga DVD?
I just got this yoga video in the mail. It’s the full Ashtanga Primary series with R. Sharath.
Should we be doing our yoga practice in front of the television? Well, simply, Yes. If you don’t do home practice, then anything that serves as a motivator is good by me.
Some days I hit the mat and nothing happens. Some days my practice is sloppy and seemingly pointless. Inside I know and accept that any practice is better than no practice. I tell the lovely peeps in my class this over and over as both a personal reminder and hope-filled motivator to their fine selves.
Today I did the Primary Series in front of the telly, and it busted my bottox, to say the least. I’m still only a few months into restarting my home yoga practice after stopping when my mum died (of all the least helpful times to stop??) 2 years ago. So I’m still puffing, panting aching and struggling with my monkey-mind and tired body. I know from experience that if I just keep it up, my yoga will boot in … it is already. So, for me, right now, this DVD is perfect, especially since the intensive wkshops that I’m attending on the weekend are Ashtanga based.
Visually the video is fine. Aurally it’s easy peasy (no over articulated American accents and schmaltzy new age music). The content is brilliant. The Ashtanga Primary Series is a huge challenge and worth committing to over the long haul; it takes years and years, if not forever, to embody with comfort. OUr 4-year old has already taken to it, so … Just DO IT, as they say.
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