Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Elaborate please...what is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Nauli kriya is a practice that massages inner organs by isolating the rectus abdominus muscles and kind of rolling them around. It can be broken down into four parts: pulling to the back is actually uddiyana bandha (one of the three locks used throughout Ashtanga practice), pulling to the left side (vama nauli), pushing out in the center (madhyama nauli), and pulling to the right (dakshina nauli). It can take awhile to get the hang of isolating the muscles. It is quite a sight to see someone who has mastered it perform this. For some reason this does not appear in any of the Ashtanga books, except the Its Yoga manual. It would be cool if the Ashtanga crowd would put out a little more info, rather than just the strict set of postures. I'm pretty sure that most experienced Ashtanga teachers will be aware of this practice and probably use it themselves. You can find descriptions and pictures of nauli kriya in a lot of the older books on yoga. For instance:<br>Integral Yoga Hatha - Swami Satchidananda<br>Yoga A Scientific Evaluation - Kovoor Behanan<br>Hatha Yoga - Theos Bernard<br>Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha - Satyananda Saraswati<br>Light on Yoga - BKS Iyengar<br>Yoga Systme of Health .... - Yogi Vithaldas<br>Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga - Vishnudevananda<br><br>Perhaps, like pranayama, this is considered by the Ashtanga authorities to be an advanced practice to be taught later. But since it is extremely beneficial and takes a long time for most people to learn, why not teach it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Noticed you are in Norman - I just moved<br>from OKC. Do you teach? Where do you practice? I<br>truly miss my old Iyengar teacher (Yoga Studio,<br>Nichols Hills), but am enjoying Richard Freeman's<br>studio. He is absolutely amazing - mind and body;<br>astanga is a whole new ballgame and I'm addicted.<br><br>Thanks for the info regarding the bandhas. I have<br>Light on Yoga and will look that up this evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 So you're studing with Richard Freeman? I guess everyone agrees he is THE Asthanga Yoga teacher in the US. Does he teach any other pranayama than ujjahy when practicing?<br><br>And about the bandhas, should us really keep mula bandha for the entire practice (near 2 hours to TRY to do SOMETHINGS FROM the whole first series)...?<br><br>Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Not a teacher. I consider myself a beginner. I went to Andrew Eppler's classes in Norman for 4 years. Have been investigating other types of yoga for awhile now, since developing some problems with hands and wrists which make it difficult or impossible to practice Ashtanga for the time being. Learning a lot. A friend of mine is building a house in Colorado and has been going to Richard's studio for classes whenever he is up there. Sounds like a cool place. He also checked out some Bikram classes up there just for fun. Yeah, the Yoga Studio people in OKC are cool, Laura and Diane. You might ask Freeman or someone at his studio about Nauli Kriya. Get someone to demonstrate, your eyes will pop out of your head when you see it.<br><br>If you haven't seen my little website, check it out, I have lots of yoga info there:<br><a href=http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yoga.htm target=new>http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yoga.htm</a><br>Mainly just a bunch of links, but a cool list of books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Streaming video segment of Lino Miele demonstrating Nauli while in Kukkutasana,,,,<br><a href=http://www.astanga.fi/video/sivut/kuvat_uus.htm target=new>http://www.astanga.fi/video/sivut/kuvat_uus.htm</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 I was recently advised by a teacher to practice the naulis and was shown each but don't know how many repititions. I have been doing about three of each. Do you know what is recommended? Thanks, K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 I don't know that it would accurate to say I study with Richard Freeman; I HUMBLY go to his classes and absolutely absorb everything. He and his students are the only Astanga teachers I've had, and the studio is immensely encouraging and energetic. I have the utmost respect for him and his teaching. (Never have I seen anyone's sitting bones separate so much in Adho Mukha Svanasana - good lord!)<br><br>Other types of pranayama - not in Level I classes. I've just started with Level 2 and will keep you posted. And Mula Bandha held for the duration, the question hasn't been posed yet. I'll ask during our next class. I try to keep awareness there during my practice but notice it's a work in progress... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 We would do nauli kriya three times, meaning empty the lungs and do as many rolls as you can, three times. This could be up to 100 rolls total, with equal amount each direction. <br><br>In the video clip that Tiber66 referred to in post 6167, Lino does 4 rolls each direction. It seems like I see this done in various sitting positions in books as well as standing with hand on thighs, which is how we would do it.<br><br>I assume that this is one of those things that maybe was once taught with primary series and no longer is, like the bastrika breath in tolasana (see post 6169). I think the reason for all these minor differences in how Ashtanga is presented by various teachers probably has to do with the fact that PKJ is constantly refining the teaching. And there are teachers who first learned Ashtanga yoga 10, 15 or 20 years ago. This is probably one reason that a requirement for teacher certification is to continue to study with PKJ. See <a href=http://www.ashtanga.co.uk/teachers.htm target=new>http://www.ashtanga.co.uk/teachers.htm</a><br><br>It seems like some postures have been added or omitted over time. Also I've heard that postures were once normally held for 10 breaths, then 8, and now 5. <br><br>I just updated my little document comparing primary series as presented in the literature to include John Scott's book. <a href=http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/pricomp.txt target=new>http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/pricomp.txt</a><br>(just for whatever its worth)<br><br>Personally, I don't think any of these minor differences are any big deal, although I can understand the effort to refine the practice and to keep it pure and standardized. But it should certainly be noted that there has been constant change in PKJ's teachings.<br><br>And of course Ashtanga yoga is meant to be learned from a teacher. So it makes sense to have a standardized one-size-fits-all version, which is then adapted to the student as appropritate, including gradually learning the basics and gradually adding some additional refinements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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