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>>Lino Miele - one of the top teachers in
Europe - started at about 40 with no previous sports or
yoga background...<< ---
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Be careful,
Alan--Lino may have a longer experience
in Astanga Yoga than you think. On three different
occasions at his latest workshop in Milan, Lino told us
that he started to practise Astanga when he was 36.
That's way before 40, me thinks...

.... depends how pedantic you are. I have every confidence you will make a good
lawyer.

You're right--I am VERY pedantic. For instance,
shouldn't it be high time for you to spell Guruji's name
correctly--Pattabhi, not Patthabi, as you always do when posting on EZ
Board--since you will soon go to Mysore? (As you see, I'm
*very* pedantic indeed.)

Oops - I actually *do* care about that one and will fix it sofort. Pedantry has
its uses. Thanks.

<, Lino told us that he started to practise Astanga when he was
36.>

And I thought I'd have plenty of time to become one of the top
teachers. I have to hurry up now.

.... actually,I have the impression Lino "saw the
light", married his yoga teacher and headed off to Mysore
pretty much immediately.

Whereas it's taken me 5
years to do even part of that (the going to mysore
bit). Lino also probably learned to spell Guruji's name
quicker I did.

As my yoga teacher and I are both already married
(with different partners) that would be a difficult
approach for me.
And as my frequent remark "I'll drop
out and go to Mysore to see Guruji" always end in
serious debates with my lovely wife, I won't be able to
do that part too.

So I will go on, doing suns
in the morning and childcare in the evening, and
hope I'll be prepared well enough for my career as
Yoga teacher in my next life (and as I do love this
one pretty much, I hope that it will take some time
till then).

Hi Dirk,
since ever the strange and unknown is
much more interesting that the things around us. A
teacher from India might be more interesting than one
from Europe or US. But fortunately there exists more
doors to heaven and more teachers to ashtanga-yoga than
only the "sanctified" pj-door in India. If you want to
drink a good bottle of Cabernet sauvignon you don't
have to go to Chile, you can buy it also in
Baden-Württemberg, Oststeiermark (Austria) or even in the most
solitary cottage if the shopman likes red wine. (May be he
also offers a good beer for Allen). - If there are so
many who persist the only way is to go to Mysore it's
really hard to resist. Everyone has his own Mysore and
it might be in India, but it also could be somewhere
else. ... If all want to have a big car, you can walk
and smell the flowers instead of the gasoline. - Äh,
when we will drop and go to Mysore?... Lu

Have you seen Lino's video on 'How I came to
Yoga' ??

In it, he talks about his previous life
in the theatre (which explains his tendency to be
theatrical!) and his dissolute existence. And on meeting Tina,
and how it changed him.

Lino is one of my top
yoga heros, BTW, apart from my first and numero uno
teacher, John Scott. One bummer about being in Goa all
this season will be that I won't be able to get down
to Silent Valley.