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In Anne Cushman's article "New Light on Yoga",

<a href=http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yj99.htm

target=new>http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yj99.htm</a> (THANK YOU, TLSLADE!!), you

can read the

following:<br><br>"When Krishnamacharya was brought to the (Mysore)

palace to start a yoga school in the 1920s, his

schoolroom was the former palace gymnastics hall, complete

with wall ropes and other gymnastic aids, wich

Krishnamacharya used as yoga props. He was also given access to

the Western gymnastics manual written by the Mysore

palace gymnasts. This manual (...) gives detailed

instructions and illustrations for physical maneuvres that

Sjoman argues quickly found their way into

Krishnamachrya's teachings, and passed on to Iyengar and Jois: for

example, lolasana, the cross-legged jumpback that helps to

link together the vinyasa in the Ashtanga series, and

Iyengar's technique of walking the hands down the wall into

a back arch."<br><br>Could it be that the legendary

"Yoga Korunta" is that "gymnastics manual written by

the Mysore palace gymnasts"?<br><br>(Btw, in her book

"Yoga: a Gem for Women" Geeta S. Iyengar says that "Yoga

Korunta" is ideal during pregnancy.)

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