Sunday, 24 November 2013

Chapter Previews; My Early Krishnamacharya Ashtanga Practice Resource Book


For some reason the earlier post where I introduced my Krishnamacharya Resource book has gone a little strange, the right side of the post seems to be missing.

So here it is again but this time with chapter previews.

I put the book through a Creative Space format that I'd been saving for the print version of my Vinyasa Krama Practice Book, something I still haven't gotten around to doing. It seems to work quite well, where before I was a little embarrassed to put this up, having just thrown together some old posts, now I'm feeling a little more pleased with it. Still some formatting and editing to do but getting there.
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I'd brought together a bunch of my Krishnamacharya posts in preparation for a couple of workshops I'd been invited to present and have been reading through them, I think I still agree with most of it.

I still need to do some work editing the whole thing, getting rid of some of it's bloggyness and well as improve the layout but, for now, it's something to be going on with.

Here's the link to the epub version which is ideal for the iPad
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JXC_g3qGlWZ1o1S1lQZ3FjUjQ/edit?usp=sharing

and this is a regular pdf version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JXC_g3qGlWdloxTy1EU3hKeG8/edit?usp=sharing

Below are the first pages of most of the chapters/articles/ex posts

Many of the 'chapters' first appeared on my Krishnamacharya blog 9click on the title for the link to the original blog post
http://krishanamcharysaoriginalashtanga.blogspot.co.uk



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Screenshots of first page of each (most) chapters....

1. Yogasanagalu's (1941) 'Original' Ashtanga Primary Group/Series in Yoga Makaranda (1934)


































12. In 1937 "Guruji was teaching a 4 year course in yoga... the same course outline (1974) that you received from Nancy" Eddie Sterne.












19. Krishnamacharya and headstands, also Ramaswami's Inverted sequence and the Ashtanga ‘seven deadlies’.














24. Krishnamacharya’s Interpretation of YS II-47 : “By making the breath smooth (and long), and by concentration or focussing the mind on the breath, the perfection of the posture is obtained”.



25. Notes on practicing Krishnamacharya’s yogasanagalu.



Table of Contents

1. Yogasanagalu's (1941) 'Original' Ashtanga Primary Group/Series in Yoga Makaranda (1934)

2. How to practice Krishnamacharya's 'Original' Ashtanga Yoga.

3. Uddiyana kriya and asana in Krishnamacharya's 'Original' Ashtanga.

4. Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda extended stays.

5. Examples of usage of Kumbhaka (Breath retention) in asana in Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda! 24

6. Why did Krishnamacharya introduce kumbhaka (breath retention) into the practice of asana in Ashtanga.

7. Why did Krishnamacharya introduced kumbhaka into asana.

8. APPENDIX: Kumbhaka in Krishnamacharya's descriptions of asana.

9. Krishnamacharya's asana description in Yogasanagalu (1941).

10. Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu - the extra asana (descriptions taken from his other works).

11. Krishnamacharya's 1941 Ashtanga Asana table.

12. In 1937 "Guruji was teaching a 4 year course in yoga... the same course outline (1974) that you received from Nancy" Eddie Sterne.

13.The 'Original' Ashtanga yoga Syllabus given to Nancy Gilgoff and David Williams by Sri K Pattabhi Jois in 1974 Mysore.

14. Posts related to Ashtanga history.

15. What did Krishnamacharya study with his Guru in Tibet- Yogacarya Krishnamacharya - The Purnacarya. Edited by Mala Srivatsan.

16. What would Krishnamacharya's Sun Salutation be like.

17. Krishnamacharya paschimottanasana, including transitions.

18. Krishnamacharya's Mysore HOUSE RECOMMENDATIONS (practice guidelines) from Yoga Makaranda (1934) and Yogasanagalu (1941).

19. Krishnamacharya and headstands, also Ramaswami's Inverted sequence and the Ashtanga ‘seven deadlies’.

20. Krishnamacharya own practice (An outline of Krishnamacharya's own practice).

21. Pranayama: Notes from Yoga makaranda ( Part II).

22. Krishnamacharya on CHAKRAS.

23. Krishnamacharya on Samyama in Yogasanagalua and Yoga makaranda ( part II) Chakras, Jivatma, Paramata. 

24. Krishnamacharya’s Interpretation of YS II-47 : “By making the breath smooth (and long), and by concentration or focussing the mind on the breath, the perfection of the posture is obtained”.

25. Notes on practicing Krishnamacharya’s yogasanagalu.


As this posts links to most of my blog posts on krishnamacharya I'll be giving it it's own page at the top of the blog with links to other krishnamacharya Resource materials.

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