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This partly renews a recent topic: does anyone

know a simple rule for determining which side to begin

with when doing one-sided postures? I'm looking for

one that applied to both first and second

series.<br><br>For a long time I've been twisting to the left first

in pasasana, but to the right first in baradvajasana

and ardha matsyendrasana. I'm not sure this is

correct.<br><br>Not that it matters much either way, I

suppose.<br><br>Homer

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Can't say anything about intermediate, since I

don't do that. But at least in first series the rule to

keep in mind seems clear: the right side always comes

first.<br><br><< Not that it matters much either way, I suppose.

>><br><br>No, I suppose in Yoga it does matter in fact which

side you do first. The devil is in the detail. Watch

out.

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<< For a long time I've been twisting to

the left first in pasasana, but to the right in

baradvajasana and ardha matsyendrasana. I'm not sure this is

correct. >><br><br>Homer - Why don't you just look

it up in Lino Miele's book "Astanga Yoga", which is

also the most authoritative text on intermediate

series published so far? I'm planning to get it myself

in the next couple of weeks, along with "Yoga Mala".

Don't expect to find any simple rules,

though.<br><br>Good luck.

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homer<br><br><<Not that it matters much

either way, I suppose.>><br><br>You are correct.

It does not matter at all whether you begin by

twisting to the left or the right.<br><br>My authority on

this is no less than Swami Vishnu Devananda. A person

whose opinion I would take over that of the yoga

personalities mentioned here, criminals or not.<br><br>At one

time in the Sivananda Ashrams and Centres students

were encouraged to sit to the right. Then a movement

developed to change that and students were encouraged to

sit to the left. Now I understand that the pendulum

has swung back and students are encouraged to sit to

the right again. Swami Vishnu used to chuckle at the

insistence of one camp or the other. He said it did not

matter. The different camps were just camps of ego.

<br><br>The same could be said for where the knees should be

when doing kakasana or bakasana. Interestingly, this

asana can be referred to by different names. So how

rigid can some of the details of how to do it

be?<br><br>Of course, some questions such as 'How many angels

can be in simultaneous contact with the head of a

pin?' can only be answered definitively by experts such

as El Senor. I heard that his answer is 108 but

perhaps he could confirm that.<br><br>omprem

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