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Wouldn't this whole multiple personality thing

make a damn good game of Clue? Mean Mr. Mustard did it

in the den with an axe to grind and a quick hatchet

job. But I, for one, haven't got the time to go back

through each post to see (if) they are written by the

same person. Make up as many personalities as you wish

that ye may become annoying to others, it doesn't

change your basic identity (assuming it's true) Do lang

do lang.

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Screade - Sorry, I am the control freak of the

board, you know.<br><br>In case of "mulala108" you

really don't need "to go back through each post to see

(if) they are written by the same person". Just take a

look at his profile,

<a href=http://profiles./mulala108

target=new>http://profiles./mulala108</a> :<br><br>"Hobbies: practicing

ashtanga; it quiets

the evil voices in my head.<br><br>Latest News:

learning vatayanasana "wind relieving exercise" (i'm a

natural)."<br><br>For your information: in the Astanga tradition,

vatayanasana is a posture from intermediate series commonly

translated as the "HORSE POSTURE", NOT "WIND RELIEVING

EXERCISE". The "wind relieving exercise" mulala108 is

talking about is not a joke, it really exists, guess

what, in SIVANANDA YOGA. Because the Sivananda people

translate vatayanasana as "wind relieving exercise"; it's

also very different from the vatayanasana we do in

Astanga Yoga. (In Sivananda Yoga, it's a kind of warm-up

exercise done at the beginning of the practice session;

for details, you can look it up in "The Sivananda

Companion to Yoga" by Swami Vishnu Devananda & Lucy

Lidell.)<br><br>No serious Astanga practitioner would EVER translate

vatayanasana as "wind relieving exercise". Mulala108 does NOT

practise Astanga Yoga, he comes from a Sivananda

background. Just like midnight_omboy, whose posts he is so

fond of. Well, curious.

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Shining skull<br><br>According to the

'Encyclopedic Dictionary of Yoga' by Georg Feuerstein, 'vata'

has several meanings"<br>1. air or wind, as in one of

the 5 elements.<br>2. synonym for prana<br>3. one of

the body humours or dhatu with the qualities of

dryness, coldness, and mobility.<br>4. as the bhuta, air

or wind, it's bija-mantra is yam which associates it

with the heart chakra.<br><br>I haven't been able to

find any definition of 'yana' to see how the horse

came to be called 'vatayana', but perhaps someone else

could help here. Although if you have ever driven a

horse and buggy, you know how accurate the 'vata' part

is.<br><br>You are correct in saying that The Sivananda

Companion to Yoga sees vatayanasana as the single or double

wind relieving pose. But later in the book (page 146),

there is a tree variation called vatyanasana, that

could be your horse-head posture if the position of the

arms were changed. I wonder if a typographical error

occured and the 'a' between 't' and 'y' was inadvertently

omitted. The same posture (with different arm positions)

and still called vatyanasana shows up in 'Yoga Mind

and Body' (page 95), the successor to The Sivananda

Companion.<br><br>omprem

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"No serious Astanga practitioner would EVER

translate vatayanasana as "wind relieving exercise".

"<br><br>Essentially this translation was first offered on our board

by Missy Pinky in message 9233. If you read her

earlier posts (go way back, she was inactive for a long

while), you might reconsider the rather hasty

generalization quoted above.<br><br>Peace and Good,<br>Homer

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Homer - Thank you for your help. But it can't be

message 9233, can it?<br><br>Anyway, if you are right,

this would mean Mr Mulala108 has entered intermediate

series already? WOW! It's clear I have undervalued his

yogic skills. <br><br>Sorry Mr Mulala: I just wasn't

able to deduce from your posts that you are such an

advanced Astanga-Yoga practitioner.

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apology accepted. i will dedicate my next wind

relieving exercise to you.<br><br>i am a very advanced and

serious ashtanga practitioner. i am currently learning

advanced e from a colony of ants who learned it from a

banana leaf manuscript they once ate in a library in

mysore.<br><br>namaste,<br>m<br><br>p.s. homer, it's actually in message 9241

where i

first learned of this wonderful asana. btw, i find your

unwavering generosity and rationality offensive and totally

inappropriate for this forum.

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