Manju Jois

[Guest guest]

Manju Jois comes to Yoga Sport now and then to

teach in "special training weeks" there. Is this enough

to make him a "yoga criminal"? I would say it is

not. Also, Manju still does go to

Mysore.<br><br>Greetings,<br>The ashtanga lynch mob.

[Guest guest]

>Manju still does go to Mysore.<br><br>I should think so. I, too, still visit

my parents regularly - does this make me safe from charges of yoga criminality?

[Guest guest]

Alan - I acquit you. (BTW, you're not a

teacher.)<br><br>Seriously, an instructor who claims to teach Astanga Yoga

and who has never been in Mysore to study with Sri

Jois is - in my humble opinion - not a teacher but a

fraud.<br><br>Take your German teacher for example. As far as I

know, she does go regularly to Mysore. As a matter of

fact, I once spoke with her on telephone last summer -

that was right at the start of my Astanga practice,

and before I even knew that she's your teacher. I was

seeking information about the sale of Mysore rugs in

Germany, and she was the only person who was not yet away

on holiday. She told me that she bought her rug on

one of her trips to Mysore. Now there! She's serious.

(I myself ended up buying my rug online at

Barefootyoga.)

[Guest guest]

She is indeed serious - a totally dedicated yogi,

astanga purist and good teacher who has just booked her

flight for her third trip to Mysore. I have no

reservations at all about studying with her, whether or not

she appears on anybody's list. <br><br>But then, I

have enough experience to make my own judgement in

these matters. The main potential value of lists as far

as I can see is to protect newcomers who don't have

the experience or knowledge to make their own

judgements. Except that if they're newcomers, how do they

even know there's a list they should be looking at?

QED - lists not much use (???) (No disrespect to

Betty or her website)<br><br>My Mysore rug came from

Mysore too, but not imported by me - it was a birthday

present.