Re: [Ashtanga Yoga] Re: REALLY...

09-09-2002, 07:26 AM

Jennifer,

Thanks for your description of the nauli. I do know enough not
to do it without an instructor. Where I live there is a Hindu
temple here that offers yoga classes. There is vinyasa, but I
don't yet qualify because I haven't been practicing with them
long enough. I don't know enough to say that this ashtanga
yoga, but it certainly sounds like it in the breath. When I can
go through all of the poses for primary then I will probably
travel to Columbus, Ohio to the Ashtanga studio there and spend
two weeks practicing there to see if my stuff is light and
flowing tight !

!
--- funkinatrix <funkinatrix@...> wrote:
> DEFINITELY well intentioned. my sincere apologies to zeke7
and
>
> tinazym and anyone else who checked out my post where i
> described the
> nauli practice. i should definitely have said 'find a good
> teacher to
> show you this.' i have a great teacher who i trust
implicitly
> who
> shows this practice to dead beginners, and in my own
> experience with
> my own body (which i have also learned to trust) i do not
find
> it to
> be anything but beneficial. but again, get someone
trustworthy
> and
> experienced to show you. just like no one should recommend
> learning
> ashtanga from a video, i shouldn't have recommended doing
> nauli based
> on my written description of it.
>
> if you thought my quoting of the jivamukti book was an
> embarassment,
> well, like i said i'm reading it now and i don't have any
> preconceived notions about the jivamukti folks. i form my
own
> opinions and, as with everything i take from it what seems
> true to me
> and reject what doesn't. the quote that i shared seemed
> interesting,
> true, and relevant. and i'm not embarassed in the least by
not
>
> being 'in'.
>
> -jennifer
>
>

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