Who cares about the YK?

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Background information of the ashtanga.com site ,

<a href=http://www.ashtanga.com/html/background.html

target=new>http://www.ashtanga.com/html/background.html</a> :<br><br>"Ashtanga

Yoga as taught by Sri

K.Pattabhi Jois began with the rediscovery, early in this

century, of the Yoga Korunta, an ancient manuscript

describing a unique system of hatha yoga practiced and

created by the ancient sage Vamana Rishi.<br>Under the

direction of his guru Sri T.Krishnamacharya, Sri K.Pattabhi

Jois helped to decipher and collate this system of

practicing asana (postures). Entrusted with preserving,

refining, and teaching the system of yoga described in the

Yoga Korunta, Sri K.Pattabhi Jois named this system

"Ashtanga Yoga", believing it to be the original asana

practice as intended by Patanjali."<br><br>To believe that

a yoga system taken from a fictitious text is "the

original asana practice as intended by Patanjali" is

pretty absurd, I say.<br><br>Big hits supposedly taken

from the Yoga Korunta such as "Oh yogi! Don't do asana

without vinyasa" are preposterous; they might be used to

imply that hatha-yoga styles which don't use vinyasa

(i.e. all other hatha-yoga styles except "Ashtanga

Yoga") are not 'real yoga' at all.<br><br>The Yoga

Korunta is said to be between 500 and 1500 years old.

This means that the Korunta, of which no copy exists

on earth, is more ancient than the REAL

Hathayogapradipika of Svatmarama, the oldest text on Hatha Yoga we

have so far.<br><br>The sad thing is that some

Ashtanga practitioners may even believe all

this.<br><br>Btw, a "United Community of Spirit" I found on the

Web, <a href=http://origin.org/ucs/ucs011.cfm?V098=Vamana

target=new>http://origin.org/ucs/ucs011.cfm?V098=Vamana</a>

names itself after the mythical writer of the YK.

Curiously, there is not one word on Ashtanga Yoga to be seen

there. Just wondering where they got the name "Vamana

Rishi" from...

[Guest guest]

"The sad thing is that some Ashtanga

practitioners may even believe all this."<br><br>I just ran a

search on "Vamana," and came up with half a dozen

astanga websites that repeat verbatim the Vamana said

Vinyasa myth.<br><br>Though I prefer the practice of

astanga-vinyasa yoga over that of the Iyengar way, I find

Iyengar's honesty refreshing.