The real diff. betw. Ashtanga and Power

[Guest guest]

Funky Badlady, I agree that people who teach a

modified brand of ashtanga shouldn't call it ashtanga. But

what precisely is Ashtanga-Yoga? Yes, already

everybode here knows, Ashtanga are the 6 series that

Krishnamacharya had found with the small student Pattabhi in the

university of Kalkutta. - Just yesterday I read in a very

nice book about the sun-salutations, about

padangusthasana, about bandhas, about energy, chakras, about the

"right" approach in practising the asanas with a special

method of breathing; there was something about food, the

both first steps of Ashtanga = Yama and Nyama - and

much other things. Now I ask you: what book I've read?

Was it a book for cooking or a book for yoga? It's

easy to answer, I suppose. Second question (if I may):

was it a book about Power-Yoga or Ashtanga-Yoga? I'm

sure, even our Senor XY would not be able to answer

this (may be HE could). I will not say the title, it's

not important. It could be the book from Lino, David

Swenson - or Beryl. All the time I'm hearing people

talking about the difference. The one difference I see is

not the method they're teaching. I regard

Ashtanga-Yoga not so weak that if you omit one posture that the

whole Ashtanga-system doesn't work. It works even then

if you are only doing one asana, the sun-salutation!

It works if you are doing only some postures - like

David suggests in his short routins. The one difference

is in my oppinion an other name for a better

book-selling. But is this a bad thing? If people buy Beryl's

book and practise the asanas with a correct breathing,

they will work on the same thing like we all in this

community do, call it Power-Yoga or Ashtanga. If the

breathing is the same, the asanas are the same, the method

seems the same, you can call it "the blue blue sky of

heaven". - It is only my oppinion and I'm ready to learn

if you can tell me the real difference. Lu