Guest guest Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 It is nice to live in a more civilized part of the country, isn't it? The local YMCA (in southern Kentucky, USA) has forbidden the teaching of yoga in it's facilities and other gymnasiums are afraid to teach such classes for fear of reprisal from the religious community. Those of us who are interested gather at one another's houses to practice or do so solo. -Tom "What can I hope when all is right?" - Voltaire ICQ 175361876 Devi Bhakta [devi_bhakta] Friday, July 25, 2003 1:57 PM Yoga Craze Spills Over to Preschoolers --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release 7/18/2003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 It is so sad at this resistence. It will continue till some westerner calls it by someother name and claim to have "discovered" it and patents it. Just like Copernicus "discovering" the helio centric theory; Kerplar his "Keplar's laws" Jenner his "vaccination" and Pythagoras his "Theorems". All these and every other fundamental knowledge of science was given by India without thought of personal gain. The arabs took it to Europe and Europeans made it their own, claiming originality. All they did was to translate it into greek or latin or whatever. The resitance is not basically religious but resistence to foreignness. Kochu "Thomas M. Fiddler" <tfiddler wrote: It is nice to live in a more civilized part of the country, isn't it? The local YMCA (in southern Kentucky, USA) has forbidden the teaching of yoga in it's facilities and other gymnasiums are afraid to teach such classes for fear of reprisal from the religious community. Those of us who are interested gather at one another's houses to practice or do so solo. -Tom "What can I hope when all is right?" - Voltaire ICQ 175361876 Devi Bhakta [devi_bhakta] Friday, July 25, 2003 1:57 PM Yoga Craze Spills Over to Preschoolers --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release 7/18/2003 Sponsor var lrec_target="_top";var lrec_URL = new Array();lrec_URL[1] = "http://rd./M=256694.3632754.4898347.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=1705075991:H\ M/A=1683996/R=0/id=flashurl/SIG=11if1rb57/*http://webevents./universal/\ seabiscuit/";var link="javascript:LRECopenWindow(1)";var lrec_flashfile = 'http://webevents./universal/seabiscuit/lrec/AdVision_lrec.swf?clickTAG\ ='+link+'';var lrec_altURL = "http://rd./M=256694.3632754.4898347.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=1705075991:H\ M/A=1683996/R=1/id=altimgurl/SIG=11if1rb57/*http://webevents./universal\ /seabiscuit/";var lrec_altimg = "http://webevents./universal/seabiscuit/lrec/noflash.gif";var lrec_width = 300;var lrec_height = 250; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2003 Report Share Posted July 26, 2003 Hello Kochu: In a somewhat similar vein, it has always bothered me about a certain area of a woman's body being given the name "G spot" based on the first initial of the man who "discovered" it! As Lee Strasberg said about his chosen craft of acting, but I feel it applies to yoga: "It's about the work." It's not even about where it orginated, or who has taught it. My Iyengar-based yoga teachers always begin the class by chanting to Patanjali. I usually just join in on "om." My mind forms the words of the chant because I have heard it so much. Sometimes I arrive to class too late to participate in the chant, and I feel relieved, because yoga is not about Patanjali. Just as Kepler discovered Kepler's laws, Patanjali discovered yoga's laws -- or, at least, wrote down information based on a certain kind of understanding (same as Kepler, Pythagoras, etc.) which has the power to reveal univeral truth. As a westerner (originally from Ohio, now a Californian), I know how appreciative I am of the influence of India in my life, from Gandhi to yoga, Deepak Chopra, Hindu deities, Shakti Sadhana, Ammachi, Gurumayi's poetry, chai tea, and wonderful, delicious food -- to name just a bit of what I know and love of India's offerings. Love to you, Mary Ann , sankara menon <kochu1tz> wrote: > It is so sad at this resistence. It will continue till some westerner calls it by someother name and claim to have "discovered" it and patents it. > Just like Copernicus "discovering" the helio centric theory; > Kerplar his "Keplar's laws" > Jenner his "vaccination" > and Pythagoras his "Theorems". > All these and every other fundamental knowledge of science was given by India without thought of personal gain. The arabs took it to Europe and Europeans made it their own, claiming originality. > All they did was to translate it into greek or latin or whatever. > The resitance is not basically religious but resistence to foreignness. > > Kochu > "Thomas M. Fiddler" <tfiddler@c...> wrote: > It is nice to live in a more civilized part of the country, isn't it? > > The local YMCA (in southern Kentucky, USA) has forbidden the teaching of > yoga in it's facilities and other gymnasiums are afraid to teach such > classes for fear of reprisal from the religious community. > > Those of us who are interested gather at one another's houses to > practice or do so solo. > > -Tom > > "What can I hope when all is right?" - Voltaire > ICQ 175361876 > > > Devi Bhakta [devi_bhakta] > Friday, July 25, 2003 1:57 PM > > Yoga Craze Spills Over to Preschoolers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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