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>>Lino Miele - one of the top teachers in

Europe - started at about 40 with no previous sports or

yoga background...<< ---

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target=new>http://www.alanlittle.org/yoga/links.html</a><br><br>Be careful,

Alan--Lino may have a longer experience

in Astanga Yoga than you think. On three different

occasions at his latest workshop in Milan, Lino told us

that he started to practise Astanga when he was 36.

That's way before 40, me thinks...

[Guest guest]

.... depends how pedantic you are. I have every confidence you will make a good

lawyer.

[Guest guest]

You're right--I am VERY pedantic. For instance,

shouldn't it be high time for you to spell Guruji's name

correctly--Pattabhi, not Patthabi, as you always do when posting on EZ

Board--since you will soon go to Mysore? (As you see, I'm

*very* pedantic indeed.)

[Guest guest]

Oops - I actually *do* care about that one and will fix it sofort. Pedantry has

its uses. Thanks.

[Guest guest]

<, Lino told us that he started to practise Astanga when he was

36.><br><br>And I thought I'd have plenty of time to become one of the top

teachers. I have to hurry up now.

[Guest guest]

.... actually,I have the impression Lino "saw the

light", married his yoga teacher and headed off to Mysore

pretty much immediately.<br><br>Whereas it's taken me 5

years to do even part of that (the going to mysore

bit). Lino also probably learned to spell Guruji's name

quicker I did.

[Guest guest]

As my yoga teacher and I are both already married

(with different partners) that would be a difficult

approach for me.<br>And as my frequent remark "I'll drop

out and go to Mysore to see Guruji" always end in

serious debates with my lovely wife, I won't be able to

do that part too.<br><br>So I will go on, doing suns

in the morning and childcare in the evening, and

hope I'll be prepared well enough for my career as

Yoga teacher in my next life (and as I do love this

one pretty much, I hope that it will take some time

till then).

[Guest guest]

Hi Dirk,<br>since ever the strange and unknown is

much more interesting that the things around us. A

teacher from India might be more interesting than one

from Europe or US. But fortunately there exists more

doors to heaven and more teachers to ashtanga-yoga than

only the "sanctified" pj-door in India. If you want to

drink a good bottle of Cabernet sauvignon you don't

have to go to Chile, you can buy it also in

Baden-Württemberg, Oststeiermark (Austria) or even in the most

solitary cottage if the shopman likes red wine. (May be he

also offers a good beer for Allen). - If there are so

many who persist the only way is to go to Mysore it's

really hard to resist. Everyone has his own Mysore and

it might be in India, but it also could be somewhere

else. ... If all want to have a big car, you can walk

and smell the flowers instead of the gasoline. - Äh,

when we will drop and go to Mysore?... Lu

[Guest guest]

Have you seen Lino's video on 'How I came to

Yoga' ??<br><br>In it, he talks about his previous life

in the theatre (which explains his tendency to be

theatrical!) and his dissolute existence. And on meeting Tina,

and how it changed him.<br><br>Lino is one of my top

yoga heros, BTW, apart from my first and numero uno

teacher, John Scott. One bummer about being in Goa all

this season will be that I won't be able to get down

to Silent Valley.