ineednonumber 23

[Guest guest]

HI,<br><br>Your post has made me curious; here's

"some" questions for you (Yes. That's you!):<br><br>So

what's that hatha thing you're doing in damp old London?

Does it come from NYC and begin with

J...?<br><br>Also, I've seen that picture in Scott's book of the

students in action at the Sangam Yoga Centre: ever been

there? It does look cool! I bet your boots that London

is great for doing Astanga.<br><br>Finally, ooh

that's what I always, (definitively), wanted to know:

"why do you need no number 23 ?"<br><br>(Still waiting

for you to disclose us your beauty on the profile...)

[Guest guest]

HI S2<br><br>Well hatha, not really I was just

too lazy to explain what it was ive been doing. some

sivananda stuff which is fairly big hereabouts and some

some very subtle stuff influenced by an Italian woman

Scaravati (i have no idea how to spell that)which is

tedious because all those postures you thought you had

licked. . . well forget it because youve got to start

from scratch and DO THEM PROPERLY. Ah jeez louise!!!

My back bends which i thought i rooled at, oh no

they're total crap. ive been getting loads of cramps in

my quads (use to do LOTS of cycling so my quads are

this TIGHT!), still i know its good even if its

pissing me off!<br><br>Next question. . . Sangam. Ha, I'm

lucky, so lucky. My yard is triangulated between SAngam

(ten minutes across teh common on the bike), The Lido

in Brixton (seven mins on the bike) and all the

sundry yoga teachers who do stuff in south london.

Sangam is very good with some powerful if a bit maaaad

adjustment from the lovely gingi; one of those places where

you cant believe what youre body can do. that man

WORKS - respect is due. Its HOT and got that vibe. all

that said im a wimp and havent been for ages. . .well

injury aside. Ashtanga has taken off here from what i

can tell in the past ooooh 18 months. what with

madonna a popular london resident(well popular with the

tabloids), her devotion to ashtanga has raised its profile.

mainly women tho'. men who do yoga seem to go for teh

more chilled stuff, me im too competitive as ive

discussed elsewhere: pole, pole, shanti, shanti . .

..<br><br>23 - tee hee. means a few things. either ill not

take the 23 bus to notting hill (ratehr too bourgeois

and white neighbourhood of london for me) from the

centre but rather the old faithful 137 to the back end

of Brixton (but thats a disingenuous answer) or

rather that i in no way make any connection with the

subculture that coalesced in teh eighties around amongst

other things the 'mystical/ political' significance

signified by the number 23 (william burroughs - now that is

an american and a half, oh and I love TS Eliot -

often alludes to it). which is another way of saying im

a hippy who cant quite bring himself to align

himself with the trappings of hippydom. some of teh yoga

stuff is a bit flowerly for me. thats that damn ego

again. <br><br>all said though theres only one path and

i cant think of a finer interpretation than public

enenmy's (bizarrely):<br><br>"if you seek, than you shall

find that we all come from the divine . . . look

inside yourself for peace, give thanks, live life and

release"<br><br>Ted xxx<br><br>oh yeah im trying to load that pic but

it keeps bouncing back at me and i spend far too

much time with computers as it is<br><br>. . .and its

weird!

[Guest guest]

Hey thanks for your eloquent replies to my nosy

questions (very eloquent, tshamoya is right).<br><br>Here's

a bad man too, since I don't do Astanga six times a

week either (anymore). I used to work on Yoga Chikitsa

almost every day, but somehow got bored with it. So now

I do Iyengar Yoga (which is VERY subtle and VERY

tedious, but at least it's more flexible than Astanga) in

the week & Astanga Yoga on Saturday/Sunday, when I

"feel ready" to invest more time in my

practice.<br><br>I've been in London once for a whole month, supposedly

to learn the language (still learning). I didn't

learn much and toured through the Big City instead -

that was fun! You lucky devil that you live there.

Since Germany, if you happen to do Astanga - and you do

NOT live in Bavaria - it's a fukked place & no

mistake.