I especially appreciate your comment that the practice should be appropriate, applicable and effective to the individual now, does this tradition work for me.
yes this tradition is based on the teaching of Krishnamacharya who emphasised three things; the building of a sequence, posture and counter posture, and that the yoga should be suited to the individual.
Great you are opening up this topic, investigating about it and taking your time to actually understand the origins of where certain ideas comes form. I feel many people forget about all the background, don't question things. Questioning is the key to better understand or understand at all. Without questioning you blindly follow some construct which can break you or your body. That is how it sometimes brings me close to anxiety when i see those short comments 'yoga is this.. yoga is that..'. Or glorifying primary series to untouchable and unchangeable subject. It's been much more organic than what is known. Explore
thanks for listening and talking time to comment. glad you feel similarly - I think people are afraid of looking lest it invalidates what they are doing . But. i feel quite the opposite - it actually helps to integrate it infinitely more !
Thank you Adam enjoyable talk - informative too. I like the story of the Himalayan origin and yoga Korunta best, of course these things are not to be taken literally. Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was a supremely gifted and well educated man, few can argue that.
Thanks for your thoughts, with all your experience they are very valuable. I think the historical context of the sequences is vitally important for people to be aware of. Everyone who come to yoga with muscle atrophy will need to be their own teacher and sometimes it requires a lot of self-study from other disciplines to achieve being able to do primary and intermediate. I have practiced for yoga and ashtanga for 8 years and started with a body that was muscularly imbalanced with many muscles in amnesia. I practiced ashtanga with modifications to the sequences as well as other dynamic yoga practices. I do believe the sequences are of incredible genius of true yoga masters and that they should be used a guide in how to correctly open up the body to delve into the deeper layers of the koshas. What I dont agree with is the method being prescribed for people already past 25-30 of solely doing the sequence as a means to achieving the next posture. It needs to be fused with interdisciplinary approaches to wake up the dormant muscles, isometric holds, pilates and gymnastic training techniques are the most effective, quickest and sustainable ways of aiding the yoga practice. I think unfortunately some yoga teachers have financial concerns about sending some students to others areas until their body has the balance and vitality of being primed for the yoga practice. There is an obvious reason why Kirshnamacharya only taught it to teenagers, but now with access to brilliant content from experience teachers such as yourself from dozens of disciplines at our fingertips the mature adult can also reawaken their body.
Hi James! thanks for your comment . I do totally agree.Also, the matter of business concerns tending to make teachers disinclined to send students other places . I actually , you might both be surprised to hear , totally recommend a bit of gym work in combination with yoga - great combination! And, yes ; the sequences do have some great qualities in the way they build - I still haven’t thought up better ones ! And, let’s not forget , that if I did, i’d be doing them on my own , while sharing something together, in contrast, feels to me an important part of the whole thing too.
Thanks for sharing this info Adam! Very useful for me. I confess that I found myself idealizing poses ( being driven and flashed by tons of them that seem to be challenging, extreme and unreachable ) without understanding the energetic side of the practice, or without understanding / respecting / accepting the limitations of my body, or without understanding the health benefits and morals behind each asana, and very important; without knowing the history and the principles of the discipline i´m practicing everyday. I´ve been following KeeN on YoGa for some time now, and it has given me very important and useful tools to embrace and understand better my love for yoga and my interest for the ashtanga sequence ( that for sure it has giving me benefits). So, each podcasts and what is shared on every transmission became like A YOGA COMPASS to me, making my practice more joyful and internal and more effective for what my body needs. So, for all your time invested, THANKS Adam!
thanks for letting me know! I think developing context and perspective on practice is a somewhat long term endeavour and definitely reduces the tendency to dwell on practice as a flashy form of exercise! As long as you keep open and questioning as you are though, you can’t really go wrong - the energy within will come through more and more as a source of guidance as you’re motivated to increasingly pay attention to it. thanks for listening and keep in touch!
@@keenonyoga Excellent words ! I really appreciate them! A key paragraph that I for sure will constantly remember before doing my practice. Have a great day! We´ll keep in touch.
Thank you, I love these topics.
so important!
I especially appreciate your comment that the practice should be appropriate, applicable and effective to the individual now, does this tradition work for me.
yes this tradition is based on the teaching of Krishnamacharya who emphasised three things; the building of a sequence, posture and counter posture, and that the yoga should be suited to the individual.
Great you are opening up this topic, investigating about it and taking your time to actually understand the origins of where certain ideas comes form. I feel many people forget about all the background, don't question things. Questioning is the key to better understand or understand at all. Without questioning you blindly follow some construct which can break you or your body.
That is how it sometimes brings me close to anxiety when i see those short comments 'yoga is this.. yoga is that..'.
Or glorifying primary series to untouchable and unchangeable subject. It's been much more organic than what is known.
Explore
thanks for listening and talking time to comment. glad you feel similarly - I think people are afraid of looking lest it invalidates what they are doing . But. i feel quite the opposite - it actually helps to integrate it infinitely more !
Thank you Adam enjoyable talk - informative too. I like the story of the Himalayan origin and yoga Korunta best, of course these things are not to be taken literally. Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was a supremely gifted and well educated man, few can argue that.
Thanks for your thoughts, with all your experience they are very valuable.
I think the historical context of the sequences is vitally important for people to be aware of. Everyone who come to yoga with muscle atrophy will need to be their own teacher and sometimes it requires a lot of self-study from other disciplines to achieve being able to do primary and intermediate. I have practiced for yoga and ashtanga for 8 years and started with a body that was muscularly imbalanced with many muscles in amnesia. I practiced ashtanga with modifications to the sequences as well as other dynamic yoga practices.
I do believe the sequences are of incredible genius of true yoga masters and that they should be used a guide in how to correctly open up the body to delve into the deeper layers of the koshas. What I dont agree with is the method being prescribed for people already past 25-30 of solely doing the sequence as a means to achieving the next posture. It needs to be fused with interdisciplinary approaches to wake up the dormant muscles, isometric holds, pilates and gymnastic training techniques are the most effective, quickest and sustainable ways of aiding the yoga practice. I think unfortunately some yoga teachers have financial concerns about sending some students to others areas until their body has the balance and vitality of being primed for the yoga practice.
There is an obvious reason why Kirshnamacharya only taught it to teenagers, but now with access to brilliant content from experience teachers such as yourself from dozens of disciplines at our fingertips the mature adult can also reawaken their body.
Hi James! thanks for your comment . I do totally agree.Also, the matter of business concerns tending to make teachers disinclined to send students other places . I actually , you might both be surprised to hear , totally recommend a bit of gym work in combination with yoga - great combination! And, yes ; the sequences do have some great qualities in the way they build - I still haven’t thought up better ones ! And, let’s not forget , that if I did, i’d be doing them on my own , while sharing something together, in contrast, feels to me an important part of the whole thing too.
Thank you! I recently discovered your podcast, and have benefitted greatly! 🙏
thanks for letting me know and listening ! you’ve got a lot of back episodes to go through in that case!!
Thanks for sharing this info Adam!
Very useful for me.
I confess that I found myself idealizing poses ( being driven and flashed by tons of them that seem to be challenging, extreme and unreachable ) without understanding
the energetic side of the practice, or without understanding / respecting / accepting the limitations of my body, or without understanding the health benefits and morals behind each asana,
and very important; without knowing the history and the principles of the discipline i´m practicing everyday.
I´ve been following KeeN on YoGa for some time now, and it has given me very important and useful tools to embrace and understand better my love for yoga and my interest for the ashtanga sequence ( that for sure it has giving me benefits).
So, each podcasts and what is shared on every transmission became like A YOGA COMPASS to me, making my practice more joyful and internal and more effective for what my body needs. So, for all your time invested, THANKS Adam!
thanks for letting me know! I think developing context and perspective on practice is a somewhat long term endeavour and definitely reduces the tendency to dwell on practice as a flashy form of exercise! As long as you keep open and questioning as you are though, you can’t really go wrong - the energy within will come through more and more as a source of guidance as you’re motivated to increasingly pay attention to it. thanks for listening and keep in touch!
@@keenonyoga Excellent words ! I really appreciate them! A key paragraph that I for sure will constantly remember before doing my practice. Have a great day! We´ll keep in touch.
Maybe it’s possible to put links to the books you mentioned 🙏
that would be great if you could talk to bns or dr sharma
yes! i know….