Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 << 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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