Guest guest Posted May 25, 2001 Report Share Posted May 25, 2001 Hello Sri Gregji! Are you back from international travels? In NYC, you are in the middle of all the cutting edge trends. What's hot there today may be wide spread ten years down the road. Any tips on the current trends and what we need to prepare for? :-). Love Harsha Greg Goode [goode (AT) DPW (DOT) COM]Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:47 AM; Subject: Harsha and yogaGlad to hear from you Harsha!Yoga is still a bit like that - sometime in late April, there was a yoga-oriented issue of NEW YORK magazine with Christy Turlingon on the cover. She was in a yoga outfit in full lotus position, balancing on her hands, lifting her hips, knees and feet off the floor. As though seated upright, but in the air.That particular yoga studio in NYC has lots of celebrities. And when they film a movie with a yoga scene, they always choose that same studio. But unlike the days when you used to teach yoga, it is now looked at as part of modern life, less exotic. It is seen as part of a healthy, energetic lifestyle. Kind of like regular calisthenics.Love,--GregAt 06:06 PM 5/24/01 -0400, Harsha wrote: >>>> A colleague mentioned to me that the topic of yoga was on the evening news. When I used to teach it back in the late 1970s, it was considered mysterious and strange and was mostly popular among actors and models in big cities like New York and Los Angles.color>fontfamily> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2001 Report Share Posted May 25, 2001 Hi Greg and Harsha, >Yoga is still a bit like that - sometime in late April, there was a >yoga-oriented issue of NEW YORK magazine with Christy Turlingon on the >cover. She was in a yoga outfit in full lotus > >snip< > >But unlike the days when you used to teach yoga, it is now looked at as >part of modern life, less exotic. It is seen as part of a healthy, >energetic lifestyle. Kind of like regular calisthenics. But that's Hatha Yoga. There are many yogas or ways to union. As I understand it, they all developed from the Raja Yoga (Royal Yoga) first written about by Patanjali. There's Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, etc., etc. Surely Vedanta is not outside that whole tradition. Love, Dharma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2001 Report Share Posted May 25, 2001 , Dharma <deva@L...> wrote: > Hi Greg and Harsha, > > >Yoga is still a bit like that - sometime in late April, there was a > >yoga-oriented issue of NEW YORK magazine with Christy Turlingon on the > >cover. She was in a yoga outfit in full lotus > > > >snip< > > > >But unlike the days when you used to teach yoga, it is now looked at as > >part of modern life, less exotic. It is seen as part of a healthy, > >energetic lifestyle. Kind of like regular calisthenics. > > But that's Hatha Yoga. There are many yogas or ways to union. As I > understand it, they all developed from the Raja Yoga (Royal Yoga) first > written about by Patanjali. > > There's Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, etc., etc. > Surely Vedanta is not outside that whole tradition. > > Love, > Dharma Namaste Dharma, Although Patanjali, whoever that composite may be, wrote a text book or part thereof, he was only putting down what was known. The Gita separates the yogas, 3500 years earlier perhaps,and they all have equal validity depending on temperament Raja Yoga is not the source particularly. Feuerstein's treatment of this is the one I prefer. Vedanta just means the 'end of the vedas', and leans particularly on the Upanishads. All is yoga after all. It seems the popular yoga now is 'power yoga', just another trendy plastic fad perhaps? Perhaps it will lead some of them to something el se? Om Namah Sivaya....Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2001 Report Share Posted May 25, 2001 In NYC, even at yoga centers, when most people say or hear "yoga," they mean what we call hatha, that's right. Vedanta's main enterprise is jnana yoga, which is also covered to some extent in Patanjali. But Vedanta traces its roots back not to Patanjali but to the original Vedas. I'd daresay that Patanjali's adherents (maybe like Iyengar?) do as well, like the other yogas in the Hindu tradition. So I'd say that Raja/Hatha and Vedanta are more like cousins than mother-daughter. Love, --Greg At 08:20 AM 5/25/01 -0700, Dharma wrote: >Hi Greg and Harsha, > >>Yoga is still a bit like that - sometime in late April, there was a >>yoga-oriented issue of NEW YORK magazine with Christy Turlingon on the >>cover. She was in a yoga outfit in full lotus >> >>snip< >> >>But unlike the days when you used to teach yoga, it is now looked at as >>part of modern life, less exotic. It is seen as part of a healthy, >>energetic lifestyle. Kind of like regular calisthenics. > >But that's Hatha Yoga. There are many yogas or ways to union. As I >understand it, they all developed from the Raja Yoga (Royal Yoga) first >written about by Patanjali. > >There's Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, etc., etc. >Surely Vedanta is not outside that whole tradition. > >Love, >Dharma > > > >/join > > > > > >All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. > > > >Your use of is subject to > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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