full vinyasa / kovalam

[Guest guest]

i am curious about who is practicing full vinyasa

- how you came to it and how long, as well as any

different effects you feel.<br>Does Lino lead his classes

always in full vinyasa?<br><br>Also i would like to know

if anyonehas been to kovalam for Lino's workshop,

and comments.

[Guest guest]

I was in Kovalam with Lino the winter before

last. I would recommend it - excellent tuition from

Lino and Gwendoline, plus Lino's wife Tina who is also

a certified ashtanga teacher if you happen to be

there during Italian school holidays. And a very

interesting and friendly international crowd of students -

lots of Finns of course (for some strange reason Lino

is practically a national hero in Finland), quite a

few Americans, and other assorted Europeans &

Australians. Quite a lot of people were there for a change of

scene and pace either before or after Mysore (I might

be one of them this winter).<br><br>There's also an

Indian therapeutic massage guy who works there called

Vijay, who cured my 15 year old knee injury that surgery

and years of physiotherapy and yoga hadn't fixed. He

and Gwendoline are the two people I've met who I

regard as genuine, certifiable bodywork geniuses.

<br><br>Kovalam is quite nice but very busy, westernised and

touristy. Very much "India for beginners", which was fine

by me as it was my first visit. But if it hadn't

been for the yoga I would have been bored stiff there

after a few days, and even with the yoga three weeks

was enough. Folks who had been to Mysore said prices

in Kovalam were about double Indian norms elsewhere

- i.e. still pretty cheap by western standards

unless you're on an absolute shoestring

budget.<br><br>(Must get some Kovalam pics up on my website some time

soon)

[Guest guest]

alan<br><br>thanks for the most informative titbits on kovalam<br><br>chamoya