Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 So... was Amrit Desai being 'spontaneous' when he was sleeping around with his female 'devotees' behind his wife's back? and... what is the Sanskrit for that pose... hmmmm, let me see... being 'free to explore... I'll get back to you on that one. Or maybe I'll just ask him myself while I stand on the other end of a ten foot pole.<br>What a crock of shite.<br> <br>FBL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 >Amrit Desai....<br><br>There is a well respected woman here in town that teaches Amrit yoga and I have taken a few of her classes. She has a very devoted following and classes that are packed to the point where she is now trying to limit them. <br>Amrit yoga is a precise series of Iyengar-style held poses and this teacher is a real stickler for proper form. I rather enjoyed the series, but not something I would want to pursue. I have never heard any of the allegations that FBL brings up in respect to Amrit Desi, but it sounds like just another chapter in the on going soap opera of leaders and their followers.<br>One interesting note about Amrit yoga here in Nashville is next month a big hospital conglomerate is sponsoring a 6-week Amrit yoga course limited to 30 students. Interesting that a big health care provider is taking a serious look at the effects of yoga. It is in conjunction with some sort of research... participants will be studied and tested in some sort of quantitative way during the course of the six weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 It will be interesting to see how a big health care provider could quantitatively measure people's spiritual development over a period of six weeks. <br><br>Or do they mean measuring the quantitative benefits of using asana as physiotherapy, which I guess is sort of distantly related to yoga? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 >quantitative benefits of using asana as physiotherapy...<br><br>I imagine that is what they will attempt to measure. <br>Will try to find out more about what they are specificity up to and report back.<br>I think it’s part of a growing trend in medical research to study the effects of yoga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 Amrit Desai is nothing in comparison to the exploits of the current King of Gurus:<br><br><a href=http://sekty.net/Data/Materialy/Baba/e-27txt.php target=new>http://sekty.net/Data/Materialy/Baba/e-27txt.php</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 FBL<br><br>What does Desai's sexual activity have to do with the discussion of 'spontaneous yoga'?<br><br>Omprem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 amen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 Desai, and not his guru, was the guy who came up with the notion of "spontaneous poses." In other words, the practice of winging it through whatever asanas you feel like doing is an idea that began with Desai sometimes in the 70s or maybe early 80s. If he or anyone argues that this is the original way, the highest or best way etc to do hatha yoga, it's only his own opinion and not based on any yoga scripture I've heard of.<br><br>I just remembered that Swami Muktananda was another guru who described experiences of spontaneous asanas while under the effect of Shakti. He writes about this in his autobiography.<br><br>It could be there is some kind of yoga tradition of spontaneous poses, but since both Desai and Mutky were both devotee-abuses...well, everyone can make up their own mind if that's relevant or not.<br><br>One of my friends (very solid guy) had an experience at a Zen Sesshin where he went into some kind of samadhi and sat, in full lotus, for 4 solid hours. When he "came to," he said his legs weren't even numb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 hmmm, i spontaneously enter utthita kukkutasana all the time. i'm more spiritually advanced than i realised! i wonder if kripalu is hiring.<br><br>m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2001 Report Share Posted July 28, 2001 screwgee<br><br>Sorry. But the reason Desai thought so highly of 'spontaneous yoga' was that his guru used to speak to him about it. Desai was very happy when it finally happened to him. And, I presume, promoted the idea to his students just as his guru had to him.<br><br>Spontaneous yoga definitely did not start with Desai. He gave credit to his guru for that. <br><br>I don't know whether Desai ever claimed that it is 'the original, the highest or the best' way to do hatha yoga, but I doubt that he would say that. Especially, as one doesn't 'do' spontaneous yoga, it just happens. Most of the time it doesn't happen at all, so I doubt that Desai would make the claims for it that you say he does.<br><br>Personally, I think that it is just an interesting phenomenon.<br><br>Omprem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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