yoga for Bharat (India, that is)

[Guest guest]

Did you know...Indian students study with Sri K.

Pattabhi Jois, Sharath and Saraswati daily for a fee which

is very affordable and in keeping with their

economy? No, obviously you didn't. The fees for students

living in so called "First World" countries are higher

and so they should be! As lil' missy has said before,

we all save our money towards our goals. Flip

through Yoga Journal (ugh), it seems thousands are happy

to spend their dosh on $2000 yoga retreats in Costa

Rica and Mauai. Or to take 2 week meaningless "teacher

trainings" for an equal cost when they are barely a student

and hardly ready to teach. Others drive new "gross

polluting" 4 wheel drives, spend hundereds on

pharmaceuticals, fashion, digital tv and dvds. Budgeting towards

goals is good old fashioned sense. Some of us save for

the worthwhile, life changing opportunity to learn at

a Master's feet(aren't we the clever

ones!).<br>Crim Vishva's yoga class doesn't warrant a 15 rupee

class fee, let alone a $15! He has barely a smattering

of yoga education, and is teaching only to profit

off a tenous connection to his highly educated family

relation. Missy agrees that all Bharat educated, life long

students of sanskrit, shastra and guru, deserve to earn

the students, income and respect accorded to them, be

they Dravidian, Marathi or Rajastani, Shavite, Vaisnav

or Devi worshippers. <br>Meanwhile there's an ever

growing legion of con artists in India (and elsewhere)

posing as yoga teachers in order to filch eager,

unsuspecting foreigners of their hard earned dough. On this

board, they call those folks - yoga

criminals.<br>m.p.<br><br>ps. A book on 15 minute yoga! What books and videos

will be next? 3 Minute yoga? 6 Second Yoga? Yoga While

on the Phone, on the Freeway, in the 4 Wheel Drive?

oops...better not toss off to many good money making ideas

here.