I like your openness and honesty in this class ("What? MY students?"... ha,ha, I do the same with my students in ESL....). With mulla bandha, I found it helped to isolate the perineum, and I did that by tightening just a bit all the muscles around it: buttocks, quads, lower abdominals. Not a total squeeze, just slightly. Now all that's left is the perineum, and I was able to sense it as it acted on its own. .... just a suggestion, maybe it will speak to one of your students....
True, must westerners cannot get their head/tongue around correct Sanskrit pronunciation. Bandha consists of a dental 'n' and a dental-aspirated 'dha'. As there are no equivalents of dental consonants (sounded with the tongue touching the back of the teeth) in English - English speaking 'yoga teachers' butcher the pronunciation. Therefore, listening carefully, one hears that she also mis-pronounces 'agni'. Also it's not pronounced 'mula' but is pronounced 'moola' (long 'u' not short 'u'). And also uddiyana with its long 'i' vowel and double palatal consonant…. Best not get me started...
Thanks for this video 🙏
I like your openness and honesty in this class ("What? MY students?"... ha,ha, I do the same with my students in ESL....). With mulla bandha, I found it helped to isolate the perineum, and I did that by tightening just a bit all the muscles around it: buttocks, quads, lower abdominals. Not a total squeeze, just slightly. Now all that's left is the perineum, and I was able to sense it as it acted on its own. .... just a suggestion, maybe it will speak to one of your students....
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You are so good. I think Bandha should be pronounced as Bun + "The" Bandhhaa. not as Da/Duh.
Uday Kiran 4
True, must westerners cannot get their head/tongue around correct Sanskrit pronunciation. Bandha consists of a dental 'n' and a dental-aspirated 'dha'. As there are no equivalents of dental consonants (sounded with the tongue touching the back of the teeth) in English - English speaking 'yoga teachers' butcher the pronunciation. Therefore, listening carefully, one hears that she also mis-pronounces 'agni'. Also it's not pronounced 'mula' but is pronounced 'moola' (long 'u' not short 'u'). And also uddiyana with its long 'i' vowel and double palatal consonant….
Best not get me started...
all talk no action, no demonstrations of the reaching is taught, it is bs