correct breathing (1-2-3-4-5)

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Hello,

some days ago we discussed the correct way of breathing. I noticed

that it seems difficult to breath only 5 times and work with the

asana/body in that short time (may be folks like Richard Freeman

could do so after years of practice). Somebody knows, where this form

of counting up

to 5 comes from? In Yoga Mala, the book of Pattabhi

Jois you found nothing about counting. The advice there is: "as much

as possible", or: "as many as possible" for staying in the pose. If

we do so and stay as much as possible, we practice this holding like

in the Iyengar-way, didn't we? - In the contrary John Scott writes in

his book about Ashtanga: it is a fluently sequence with briefly (!!)

interruptions in the poses! So I hear two different voices now, stay

as long as you can from PJ, and the other: stay only a short time.

According

Pattabhi Jois' book: the sriptures are right, and if he also writes,

as long as possible, why he counts up to 5 himself? Lu