Guest guest Posted July 29, 2001 Report Share Posted July 29, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 "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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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