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I would be humbled to be able to do yoga like

david life.<br><br>Not everybody listenes to Bach,

Beethoven or go to the opera. Some of you listen to....err

i guess i don't know anyone contemporary...i came

up with: Madonna. (Oh and I know the wallflowers but

they're not half bad.) <br>So some have that kind of

taste in yoga. Would you deprive them of it?<br><br>I

am EVERY DAY grateful for the beautiful system of

ashtanga yoga and that i FOUND it.( Isn't it just scary

that one could still be stuck in some iyengar class

not knowing that asana could be anything else? )(We

could be going to class with a suitcase of props for

the rest of our lives.) Having found vinyasa yoga is

a miracle daily!<br><br>But those other

guys......to qoute another classic:<br>"Let It Be".<br><br>Was

the purpose of free speech really to be able to with

abandon run people down, even if you have never met them

or they have never hurt you?<br><br>The most

valuable contribution in the last month was the one of guy

donahaye talking about yoga and the value of a teacher.It

made this venue worthwhile and i thank those

contributions that precipitated this response no matter how

annoying. It had purpose - that of us learning.<br><br>If

we are really so committed to this path of ashtanga

yoga let us strive to incalcate the best qualtities of

our teachers...the ones we are so lucky to have. We

may fail, but getting back up and striving is where

our energy benefits us the most.<br><br>Sure it is

okay to have our pet peeves....with the emphasis on

PET. <br>At least David Life has studied with the yoga

greats. And here comes my pet peeve: not like the

sivinanda yoga asana teachers. Really.<br><br>And to those

who dominate the board: a valuable question is to ask

oneself - am i the one who has the most to contribute?

Let that determine the frequency of posting.

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a celebration of personal taste and choice, and

then an excoriation of what does not suit one's

personal taste and choice? much about iyengar and

sivananda styles and practices may not be of maximum

benefit to me either, but i know it all fits usefully

into the lives of legions of others. in the same way i

am not primarily a bhakti yogi, but have worked to

make peace with those following the path of devotion.

a teacher can suggest a way, but finding one's

individual path to Self-realization is up to each

aspirant.<br><br>we are truly one Self, each of us an illusory

projection of that universal reality.

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David Life Charged with Alleged Fraudulence

against the Purity of Astanga Yoga: A Public

Inquiery.<br><br>Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,<br><br>* Does it make

sense to invent a brand-new yoga style on the basis of

Astanga Yoga, rather than to stick to what is handled

down to us from the lineage of T.Krishnamacharya &

K.Pattabhi Jois?<br><br>* Is it a good idea to mix Astanga

Yoga together with different hatha-yoga styles like

Sivananda and Iyengar Yoga, and boil the mixture to a yoga

porridge?<br><br>* Does David Life have the experience & the

competence to do his job as good as, or maybe even better

than T.Krishnamacharya & K.Pattabhi Jois did theirs

when they created Astanga Yoga?<br><br>* And finally,

if NO is the answer to all the above questions: does

it follow that David Life is a fraud?<br><br>May the

jury pass its verdict.

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