Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Crete - Derek Ireland tribute in old edition of Fusion magazine also Ashtanga.com article links


A nice comment from Rani on the video of Derek Ireland I posted a couple of days ago (added the video to the bottom of this post) which made me wonder who took the video. According to the comments on the Youtube video it was somebody called Tony. A google search led me to this tribute to Derek Ireland in Fusion magazine. It's hosted at Yogamatters and I hope they don't mind me sharing it.

http://www.yogamatters.com/cmscontent/documents/Files/Derek%20Ireland.pdf

If you have trouble reading the print head over there, it's a little clearer.

In the article there's a piece by somebody called Anthony Parker with a couple of shots from the movie so it seems this is probably the Tony referred to in the Youtube description.

Some nice pieces on the early days of Yoga in Crete and a particularly nice tribute by John Scott that begins

"Every yoga student remembers their first yoga teacher with love...."

Also on the way to the article via Google  I came across this page on Ashtanga.com that I had forgotten all about. A real treasure trove of articles.

http://www.ashtanga.com/html/articles.html

Here's a list of the articles they have (their page is the one to bookmark rather than mine, they've spent years compiling it. I'm replicating the list here because I know how we often intend to follow links but  don't always get around to it, this should tempt you there's is some incredible stuff there).

Yoga Tour Articles

Derek Ireland - A Celebration 
(archival copy of Fusion The Practice Place Magazine (1989)















and here's the Derek Ireland movie again that refer to at the top of this post

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2 comments:

Rani Jeyaraj said...

Can you imagine him walking around traditional Mysore...? he must have had crowds following him:)
Does this magazine still exist? What an amazing tribute.
Coming back to your thought on beauty, I wanted to share this quote from BKS Iyengar (I hope its the correct wording):


Any action done with beauty and purity
and complete harmony
of body mind and soul
is art.
In this way art elevates artist.
As yoga fulfills the basic need of art,
it is an art.
-BKS Iyengar

15 May 2013 at 10:09
Grimmly said...

Nice Rani, thanks for that,

15 May 2013 at 16:46

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