yoga NYC

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both please!

 

ashtanga yoga, asawrt@a... wrote:

> Are you looking for Mysore-style or led?

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I like the Ashtanga Yoga Shala, it is reasonably close to Flatiron

Building (maybe $5 cab ride), here is link:

 

http://www.ashtangayogashala.net/

 

ashtanga yoga, skydivegirlie <no_reply>

wrote:

> hi,

>

> Im in Ny for a couple of weeks working, where should I go for the

best

> ashtanga classes? I'm near the Flat iron building.

>

> thanks

> Janet

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>Im in Ny for a couple of weeks working, where should I go for the best

ashtanga classes? I'm near the Flat iron building.

thanks

Janet

 

 

There are several places that I know of: Shiva Yoga Shala, at 1 Rivington St. on

the Lower East Side, and Eddie Stern's place on Broadway, also in that area.

 

http://www.shivayogashala.com

 

There is also Prana, but I have never been there & don't know if it is any good

or not. It is on 39th St, so closest to you in the Flatiron bldg.

 

http://www.thepranastudio.com/index.htm

 

Finally, this place might work for you if you are hardcore and assertive:

 

http://www.ashtangayogashala.net/

 

It's also in the East Vil area -- kind of a drag if you live on the UWS, where

there is no ashtanga! I haven't tried this one because they have a reputation

for making you go to the back of the room & do the finishing sequence if they

think you haven't mastered an asana. In other words, you could pay $20 for your

class and be told to finish after you have done only one or two asanas if they

don't think you are good enough. I'll be damned if I will waste money like

that. I am a poor student & I expect to get my money's worth from a class.

 

Amanda

 

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I am aware that this is the traditional method but the problem is how the

appropriate point to stop is determined. I have been doing ashtanga for 7 years

and I still cannot do marichasana D. I probably never will be able to. If I

stopped at that point because I can't clasp my hands in that pose, I'd never

have learned the rest of the series. If one has to be able to get fully into

each pose before learning the next, I'd still be on the standing postures as I

cannot bind on the right side and probably never will be able to. Likewise, I

have really short legs and can't get them over my shoulders for bujupidasana.

Again, I am not willing to forego learning the rest of the series because I

screw up one pose. In theory, each pose is harder than the next but, in

reality, it depends on your individual conformation/strength/flexibility/etc.

There are poses AFTER marichasana D and bujupidasana that I can do perfectly

well, poses I never would have learned & benefited from if I'd simply stopped

there.

 

I believe the way to avoid injury is to modify temporarily when necessary and

not push yourself to the point of serious pain in any pose, not to pay for a 90

minute class and only get 20 minutes worth. Maybe if I were rich I'd feel

differently. AK

>New York City's Ashtanga Yoga Shala teaches TRADITIONAL Mysore-style

Ashtanga, as taught by Patthabi Jois. It is customary for the teacher to stop

students

at an appropriate point in the series so that they don't injure themselves

attempting difficult/dangerous poses their bodies aren't yet ready for. In my

opinion, you can't put a price tag on saving your body from injury. Guy

Donahaye, Ashtanga Yoga Shala's director, is an excellent teacher. If people

want to

"get their money's worth" attempting Kurmasana, be my guest. Just don't

complain about Ashtanga being dangerous for the body when you have serious knee

injuries and can't walk.

 

 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Spencer's Dogster page: http://www.dogster.com/?88019

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good. -W.H. Auden

[Guest guest]

Hi

Im travling to NY on friday for 1 week and would like to find a good

place to practice ashtanga (mysore/selfpractice or lead). Im staying

on

42st 5th av. I've read that http://www.ashtangayogashala.net/ is

nice.

Thats far from where im staying, right (atleast on mapquest.com!)?

I found Yogasutra (http://www.yogasutranyc.com/) on www.ashtanga.com.

I

think its much closer to where i'm staying. Does enyone practice

there?

How is it? Or do you recomend any other place?

Thanks

 

Namaste

/Adi G