Story on straps... sivananda/satya

[Guest guest]

<<<<<If you creatively made up

your own sessions you weren't doing the Sivananda

style.>>>>><br><br>oh really? from 'the sivananda companion to

yoga,'

p. 152, 1983:<br><br>"this chart provides an

overview of the asanas in this book which you should refer

to when planning what to practice in your own set of

asanas. ... no two bodies are the same ... you should

just proceed at your own pace, taking care always to

balance the asanas you choose to practice."<br><br>wrong

information is wrong information. you owe the writer and the

readers an apology, as you seem again intent on

sacrificing accuracy and civility in order to be gratuitously

argumentative. must be all that good old fashioned sexual

repression you're mistaking for brahmacharya. in the

interest of satya:<br><br>true that dropping in on a

sivananda hour-and-a-half open session anywhere in the

world one will consistently do the same sequence of 12

to 15 postures with occasional variations, interim

stretches and resting poses, surya namaskar, anuloma viloma

and kapalabhati pranayama, and an extended

savasana.<br><br>but that's not what the writer referred to. any

experienced sivananda practitioner can easily spend all day

"creatively making up a session." swami vishnu-devananda's

'the complete illustrated book of yoga' shows 120 or

so asanas and variations, the more concise

'sivananda companion to yoga' around half that. both include

extensive kriya yoga, meditation and advanced pranayama

techniques which can be incorporated.<br><br>this is not a

rajasic, chauvinistic defense of one style or another,

only a correction of misinformation. different people

find different styles useful -- pattabhi jois's asana

series reflect an admirable specificity, the sivananda

style allows discretion in assembling a personal

practice. it's a beautiful world that we have the luxury to

pick and choose from a wide variety of styles in

finding our personal path, and that honest information is

so freely available.

[Guest guest]

The chart you refer to lists the 12 postures

considered basic by the Sivananda approach plus variations

on the 12, just as I mentioned. In addition to the

set postures (and their variation, the sequence of

doing them is also set as indicated by the

chart.<br><br>The discretion suggested by the Sivananda approach

lies in the variations--the sequence stays the same

and the basic postures stay the same. Consider it to

be variations on a theme.<br><br>I'm not even going

to bother addressing your argumentum ad hominem.

<br><br>As the Gita says (XII, 18,19):<br>"He who is the

same to foe and friend, and also in honour and

dishonour, who is the same in cold and heat and in pleasure

and pain, who is free from attachment,<br><br>To whom

censure and praise are equal, who is silent, content with

anything, homeless, steadyminded, full of devotion-that man

is dear to Me."

[Guest guest]

again, in the interest of

satya:<br><br><<<<<The chart you refer to lists the 12 postures

considered basic by the Sivananda approach plus variations

on the 12, just as I

mentioned.>>>>><br><br>your reduction is deliberately misleading.

further

quote from the chart in question in 'the sivananda

companion':<br><br>"the figures in pink represent entirely new asanas ...

all the variations of both basic and new asanas are

described in shorthand fashion ..."<br><br>while

philosophically all the postures may be considered variations on

one posture, in this context the chart provides a

multitude of postures that are not variations on the "basic

12" you incorrectly, and unequivocably, stated

comprise the extent of the sivananda style. also, as i

said before the book the chart appears in while

extensive contains around half the postures presented in

'the complete illustrated book of yoga.' any

experienced practitioner would freely make use of this vast

repetoire. other postures may substitute completely for the

"basic 12" found in a sivananda open

class.<br><br><<<<<In addition to the set postures (and their

variation, the sequence of doing them is also set as

indicated by the chart.>>>>><br><br>the

chart does indeed suggest where these separate postures

(not variations) should be placed in a sequence --

that was indicated in the quote i

provided.<br><br><<<<<The discretion suggested by the Sivananda

approach

lies in the variations

-->>>>><br><br>variations, and a multitude of additional

postures, as i

said, and as the quote i originally provided said.

these additional postures have their own variations as

well. these easily verifiable facts contradict the

misinformation in your original terse, insulting message to the

writer who innocently and quite reasonably stated he was

creatively making up a sivananda

sequence.<br><br><<<<<the sequence stays the same and the basic

postures

stay the same.>>>>><br><br>wrong again.

sophistry cannot hide the fact that you are trying to pass

yourself off as an authority on a subject you appear to

have little knowledge of and less personal interest

in.<br><br><<<<<Consider it to be variations on a

theme.>>>>><br><br>your messages are variations on the theme of

aggressive ignorance.<br><br><<<<<I'm not

even going to bother addressing your argumentum ad

hominem.>>>>><br><br>a phrase you no doubt have directed at you

quite

often, and the sort of tactic you rely on continually

here when others point out your dismissive

misinformation.<br><br>why do you carry on this way? wouldn't be in an

effort to disrupt the board by baiting people into

off-topic discussions, now, would it?