one more time

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missy revisits her recent post for

clarification:<br><br>"It is a long shot that a sadhu looked at the pose

you mention and said "Man, you look just like a

horse's face," for two reasons. One-the pose looks

nothing like a horse's face. Two- the asana is

incorrectly translated in Lino's book. Vatayana means that

through which air passes (vata=air),like a window.<br>And

yes, the pose is also incorrectly translated in BKS's

Light on Yoga - and he should have known

better!<br>Vatayanasana regulates the internal air."<br><br>I can name

one very serious ashtanga yoga practitioner who calls

this pose window, or air balancing pose - Sri K.

Pattabhi Jois! Where else would missy p. have found her

information? She certainly wouldn't have posted for the first

time in 6 months, if not to correct a long held

mistake, and so spread some good ashtanga learning. When

asked the meaning of vatayana, Guruji pointed to the

nearby window and quoted the meaning in sanskrit from

Amara Kosha, the sanskrit thesaurus, a text he

memorized in full while a young teen in his first year at

the Maharaja's Sanskrit College. He said further that

when one practises this pose, pressing the heel down,

internal air is rising correctly. He had a very good laugh

when asked if the pose meant horse. When he spoke of

internal air, he did not mean gas, rather prana. <br>m.p.

agrees that it is pretty silly to shop around different

yoga sites or books for seemingly related info. It is

just confusing for those that visit this site wishing

to gain some knowledge.<br>So why do people

incorrectly refer to this as a horse pose? Probably because

they looked no further than the bad translation in

BKS's book and just repeated the mistake ad infinitum.

Actually this kind of thing happens too often in yoga

education in the West. Everyone just keeps regurgitating

the same old sources (Georg Feuerstein in not the

final expert, nor David Swenson nor Lino Miele). Study

under a true master and be guided to the

truth.<br>fondly,your pal, m.p.