ashtanga yoga Digest Number 763

[Guest guest]

>Ashtanga is not invented by Mr Jois of mysore.

 

Yes, it was, if you are referring to the particular sequence of asanas that are

called Ashtanga yoga. He did not invent the individual asanas, most of which

are shared by hatha & other types of yoga, nor did he invent the eight limbs of

yoga, but he put together what he learned from his teacher into a specific new

system that he named "Ashtanga".

>Though he is a world famous teacher (little known in India) in ashtanga, I was

told that he teaches only asanas.

 

He teaches only asanas because the westerners who are the paying customers for

ashtanga aren't interested in the other 7 limbs -- myself included. If people

would pay for it, he'd teach the other 7 limbs, too.

 

Amanda

NYC

 

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