Krisnamacharya Yoga Film 1938 (silent)
This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing the Great yoga teacher demonstrating asana and pranyama. He was the teacher of BKS Iyengar and Sri K. Pattahbi Jois, founder the Astanga style of yoga.
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what’s the purpose of it?
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yoga is 6000 years old practice….Its was not usually practiced by women. Only Men used to do that……However, now very few Indian women do simple yoga
silence i kill you!!!
its hard to believe that ANY yoga practitioner would talk that way… long time huh?
amazing piece of film. from another time, a chance to see. so un self conscious because film so rare there and then. almost cellular body control. like the chinese masters vintage rare films too. another world. cool its silent. fit old ‘ns with an energetic attitude to life.. rule! male + female.. There’s one guy didnt know we’d be watching him so many years later.
wish you a great 2010.!
i have a very stupid question . i know in west both women and men practice but in India why only men practice it ?
aliens? oh no.
i think there was an alien hiding in the woods
True, and the other interesting thing is that yoga was traditionally taught one on one, not in “classes” and workshops, it was a personal and intimate thing between a teacher and student.
The major focus came onto asana when it became apparent just how much money could be made by leveraging your time and teaching in multiples.
“Functional creep” as I call it is when slowly but surely the original purity of intent is broken down until it has been pretty much lost altogether.
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I agree with cspace. It’s to bad most of the Yoga taught here roots with him. At the time, (20’s to 40’s) yoga was in a sorry state in India. Under British rule yoga had become unpopular and many of the Yoga families disappeared. If you can find a Yoga studio not in the Krisnamacharya tradition go take classes. I’ve been lucky enough to find a Yoga Center like this with a teacher from India who come from a “Yoga” family. The differences are useful.
Well my personal views of course and it’s sure hard to write a reasonable answer to your questions in such a short space but here is a question for you for a start….where did you get the word “shala” from ?
In short it’s my view that Krisnamacharya started the ball rolling with the focus on gymnastics and it snowballed from there with the two main schools as you mentioned and to possibly a lesser degree with his son. As soon as they married these styles with the US dollar….well ???
I was curious about your contention that Krishnamacharya might be the father of “absolutely bastardised yoga gymnastics…”, and wondered if you meant that the two schools that emanated from his shala - those of Iyengar and Jois - were a basterdised form of a more pure form of the practice. If indeed this is what you meant, I’d love to know what that form is (or was). Your implication is that Krishnamcharya himself is the source the denegration. Not defensive here - just hoping to dig deeper.
Be specific ?
Can you elaborate?
Ahhhh, yes, Krisnamacharya, probably the modern-day “father” of what we know to be the absolutely bastardised yoga gymnastics we see on every second street these days.
Now for suggesting this I suppose all you pseudo-spiritual party-trick yoga performers out there will give me the thumbs down….but before you do, know that I am a long-term yoga teacher in both the Astanga and Iyengar traditions, so what would I be saying this do you think ??
not exactly a good role model for armchair vegetarians…
Good research buddy. I prefer eating BEEF which improves ur caliber.Hindus eat Grass and go down the civilization shitting and spitting on roads. U know More prostitutes in the world come from Hindu society because husband are nul on bed so they go screwing them selves and earn their livelyhood.
Lions don’t eat salads perhaps due to the fact that they don’t really know what a salad is…or maybe because their frontal lobe is so small that they just eat whatever moves…by the way Luke how come Lions brains are not as big as humans with all the meat they’ve been eating for thousands of more years than us poor “homo sapiens” have for centuries…Hindus do have a higher incidence of above average IQs (and income) and an equally high preference for non-meat products…explain that one…
I think this is better for your body than tai chi…
thanks for the compliment! and yes, my
balls do smell a bit like marzipan today.
Meat and hard work, made an ape a human being. It is proved scientificaly, that homo sapiens brains got bigger when they started to eat meat, so make conclusions youself :D If several generations of the same line would be vegeterians, they will revolve back to apes. Good luck vegeterians in your fight against a human nature, I’ll keep on eating meat and I know where it comes from, because I never eat at fast food. Did vegeterians ever thought why lions don’t like salad?
i only eat beef from my fathers farm i’m glad to do the killing myself.