SUNDAY YOGA BLOG TIMES: THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF ASHTANGA YOGA

photo from Govinda Kai
The good-ol'days of Ashtanga Yoga are recounted in the heat of the Berkshire summer as Paradise Williams and Swenson give a workshop at Kripalu; And... Beryl Bender Birch shows up for it. Very interesting!

Oh dear! It's as if he can read my mind: 7 Shitty things I will think today.

So, what is it like to take a 5-day workshop with one of the best yoga teachers in the world? See here.

Wondering what are the moon days for 2013? Why do we care? Well, they are rest-days from asana practice!

Funny yoga blog Yogadawg closes shop!  But: It will still live through Facebook.

The briefest talk on Bandhas found on the internet, pointing to other places for more, good start.

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 And ending on the same note of the good ol'days of Ashtanga, did you look at the syllabus if 1974 from Nancy Gilgoff in detail? How lucky are we to see all of this! ... and, yes I know a triple-Grimmly this week, he just has some good stuff going on there!

Gregor Maehle finished writing his latest book on Meditation, he wants a renaissance of pranayama and also meditation! Tall order and great news for us! here is a little of what he said about it on Facebook (below), for more visit his page.

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"In this book I am describing the meditation layer and mental aspect of the physical and respiratory disciplines of yoga that I presented in my earlier books. Yogic meditation has fallen into disuse, hence the many attempts to import unlinked meditation techniques into yoga. With this book I am intending to usher in a renaissance of yogic meditation as described in yogic scripture.”

 Finally, on the Maehle note, the Book Club is in full swing and we are going over: Pranayama Breath Of Yoga, Are you reading it?  If you are join me in the chapter exploration every week, there is so much to enjoy there!

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7 comments:

  1. grimmlySeptember 9, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    Nice to see the Sunday blog times back had missed it, though i think I read most of these this week : ) looking forward to catching up on your book club now the Workshop is out the way.

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  2. Maria LongSeptember 9, 2012 at 2:25 PM

    Thanks for the mention Claudia. Was going to take copious notes, But David talks in Stream of Thought which is meant to be absorbed, not transcribed.

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  3. ClaudiaYogaSeptember 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM

    I totally know what you mean... stream of thoughts are hard to get into paper! I thought it was great how you pointed out that they cannot be brushed over, that they need attention :-)

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  4. ClaudiaYogaSeptember 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM

    Thanks Grimmly, and yes of course you read most of these. Really enjoying all the sharing going on at yours... the book club is proving a really interesting exercise, comments and re-reading for the third time helps me consolidate the new knowledge it seems... been good for the practice. :-)

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  5. Brianna NashSeptember 10, 2012 at 6:17 PM

    Thanks for the link to the 2013 Moon Days :). My calendar is now up-to-date with the latest. Will be looking at your book club link tonight hopefully. I've been wanting to get Maehle's book but haven't put my order through yet. I'm still mulling through some others right now.

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  6. ClaudiaYogaSeptember 12, 2012 at 5:16 AM

    Great, I love the feeling when all the moons are in the calendar, except maybe for months like this one where both fall on a Saturday!!! hee hee...


    Just saw your other comment where you mentioned you had ordered the book, I am happy we will be reading together!

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  7. ClaudiaDecember 8, 2013 at 3:11 AM

    Great post, I really like the
    picture. The Van reminds me of my college roadtrip. triple yoga

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