Krisnamacharya Yoga Film 1938 (silent)

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I agree with cspace. It's to bad most of the Yoga taught here roots with him. At the time, (20's to 40's) yoga was in a sorry state in India. Under British rule yoga had become unpopular and many of the Yoga families disappeared. If you can find a Yoga studio not in the Krisnamacharya tradition go take classes. I've been lucky enough to find a Yoga Center like this with a teacher from India who come from a "Yoga" family. The differences are useful.

Ahhhh, yes, Krisnamacharya, probably the modern-day "father" of what we know to be the absolutely bastardised yoga gymnastics we see on every second street these days.

Now for suggesting this I suppose all you pseudo-spiritual party-trick yoga performers out there will give me the thumbs down....but before you do, know that I am a long-term yoga teacher in both the Astanga and Iyengar traditions, so what would I be saying this do you think ??

Can you elaborate?

Be specific ?

I was curious about your contention that Krishnamacharya might be the father of "absolutely bastardised yoga gymnastics...", and wondered if you meant that the two schools that emanated from his shala - those of Iyengar and Jois - were a basterdised form of a more pure form of the practice. If indeed this is what you meant, I'd love to know what that form is (or was). Your implication is that Krishnamcharya himself is the source the denegration. Not defensive here - just hoping to dig deeper.

Well my personal views of course and it's sure hard to write a reasonable answer to your questions in such a short space but here is a question for you for a start....where did you get the word "shala" from ?

In short it's my view that Krisnamacharya started the ball rolling with the focus on gymnastics and it snowballed from there with the two main schools as you mentioned and to possibly a lesser degree with his son. As soon as they married these styles with the US dollar....well ???

not exactly a good role model for armchair vegetarians...

Good research buddy. I prefer eating BEEF which improves ur caliber.Hindus eat Grass and go down the civilization shitting and spitting on roads. U know More prostitutes in the world come from Hindu society because husband are nul on bed so they go screwing them selves and earn their livelyhood.

Lions don't eat salads perhaps due to the fact that they don't really know what a salad is...or maybe because their frontal lobe is so small that they just eat whatever moves...by the way Luke how come Lions brains are not as big as humans with all the meat they've been eating for thousands of more years than us poor "homo sapiens" have for centuries...Hindus do have a higher incidence of above average IQs (and income) and an equally high preference for non-meat products...explain that one...