ashtanga yoga Digest Number 558

[Guest guest]

I attended a workshop with David Williams and he made some comments

that may shed some light on this. He says that Guruji when he was teaching

in Encinitas, California 30 years ago was getting enormously large classes, and

in order to make people go slower he made the students follow the full vinyasa

way.

David commented that his friend Lino Miele learned the full vinyasa method and

received great healing benefits to his back because of the heat generated

by this method. If I recall comments by Lino from when I attended his

workshops,

I think whether you practice one way or the other depends on you, on how much

time you have. You may need 2 hours to do the practice with the full vinyasa as

opposed to an hour and a half for the practice using the half vinyasa. You could

try doing the full vinyasa method on a weekend day when you have a lot of time,

and do the half vinyasa method during the week. Have fun.

 

Arturo

 

Message: 11

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:19:32 -0000

rafailgr123

full vinyasa or half vinyasa ?

 

hi

iknow that the traditional system of ashtanga vinyasa, is to do full

vinyasa every asana ,and half vinyasa every side of asana.

and guruji because of no time, he teach only the half vinyasa every

each asana. now every teacher teach this way,[half vinyasa].

but how should we practice? full vinyasa or half vinyasa?