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miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2013
Talking with Alex Medin. ~ Deborah Crooks+demo
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/07/talking-with-alex-medin-deborah-crooks/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhe3rotNZ9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhe3rotNZ9g
lunes, 14 de octubre de 2013
Advanced Ashtanga practice with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois 1987 / 1989
1987
advanced A with some asana from advanced B
Practitioners: Chuck Miller, Gary Lapedota, Clifford Sweatte and Tim Miller
advanced A with some asana from advanced B
Practitioners: Chuck Miller, Gary Lapedota, Clifford Sweatte and Tim Miller
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5kmpQYXZGs |
1989
Advanced A and half of advanced B
Practitioners: Tim Miller, Chuck Miller, Maty Ezraty and Richard Freeman
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPHTZ7Hc7Hg |
Etiquetas:
advanced practice,
ashtanga,
Chuck Miller,
Clifford Sweatte,
Encinitas,
Gary Lapedota,
Maty Ezraty,
Richard Freeman,
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois,
Tim Miller
jueves, 3 de octubre de 2013
Buscando Mula bandha Toni Romero
That which is the root of all beings,
that root which bonds all of the mind
(all thought and experience)
That is Mula bandha, which should always be served
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| La llama de la inteligencia, Dibujo del Libro "The mirror of yoga" |
(attended to) and which is fit for rajayogins.
Sri Shankaracharya
Sri Shankaracharya
Mula bandha es la puerta que pasa de lo
físico a lo sutil. Aprender a entender toda esa inteligencia lleva años y para
comprender, estas simples notas son producto del aprendizaje de diversas
fuentes y la práctica diaria, con toda la humildad espero que les sirva de
utilidad a las personas que lo lean.
El primer paso es tratar de crear mula bandha
en el sentido corporal. El hatha yoga pradipika entre otros textos clásicos
nombras mula bandha como la presión del talón directamente en el perineum.
Posturas como siddhasana son un buen punto
de partida para empezar a sentir esa zona entre los genitales y ano (suelo
pélvico). La intención es crear una tensión y levantar ese grupo muscular hacia
arriba, como si se tratara de una llama que se enciende justo en ese punto
intermedio y asciende hacia arriba. Al principio parece casi imposible, ya que al tratar de
contraer esa zona es casi instintivo y más fácil que sea el ano (aswini
mudra).
Para distinguir diversos tonos musculares
es recomendable practicar el ejercicio de Kegel, en el cual al orinar e
interrumpir la acción se activa lo que se llama músculo PC. De este
modo
podemos delimitar dos puntos de partida frontal pc y trasero ano. Si tratamos
de visualizar un rombo en la zona y añadimos el glúteo derecho e izquierdo
tenemos cuatro esquinas que dibujan la superficie en bruto donde el suelo
pélvico es contraído. Al principio para tratar de asegurar la implicación de
mula bandha es recomendable tratar de contraer los tres puntos (pc, ano y centro del suelo pélvico) e intentar visualizar
como los glúteos derecho e izquierdo tratan de acercarse para asegurar un
compacto grupo muscular como punto de partida. A través de la práctica la
intención es refinar una y otra vez para poder diseccionar el rombo en
secciones cada vez más pequeña y precisas. Es como si estás en la playa y
tratas de tomar un manado de arena del suelo y al hacerlo procuras tener la
máxima cantidad y con el tiempo se vuelve algo tan exacto como si recogieras un
hilo que tratas de levantar.
Una vez localizado el punto entremedio del
ano y los genitales, es interesante observar que al sentir mula bandha haciendo
ascender apana, el ano está sin tensión.
Prana vayu y apana vayu son dos los vayus
que forman el PRANA como grupo genérico y traducido como energía vital.
Prana vayu se mueve hacia arriba, se
encuentra en la zona pectoral y su punto central en el centro del tórax cuando
la calidad postural del torso es firme, abierta, con los hombros hacía atrás.
Al inhalar al máximo, el tórax se expande y crece, esa es la fase más pránica
de la respiración.
Apana vayu para complementar se mueve
hacía abajo se encuentra en la zona inferior del cuerpo. Su punto matriz en el
centro del suelo pélvico. Precisamente al exhalar, los músculos abdominales se
contraen, el tórax se cierra. Prana es como volar hacia el cielo y apana como
arraigar en la tierra. De ahí la importancia de mula (raíz) bandha (sello).
Su función es revertir el movimiento de apana y hacerlo ascender.
De ese modo a la altura del hueso púbico prana y apana se presionan el uno
al otro. Algunas versiones dicen que el calor que desprender esa fricción mata la serpiente enroscada kundalini
que obstaculiza la entrada del nadi central y entonces prana puede ascender
libremente y llevar la energía Shakti para unirse a la consciencia universal
Shiva. Hay diversas variaciones del proceso según el linaje, no me voy a
extender ya que es un tema muy extenso.
Volviendo a prana y apana. Una buena forma
de sentir la contracción que se produce en el suelo pélvico es tratar exhalar
completamente, pero manteniendo el tórax abierto como en la inhalación para
mantener la calidad residual de la inhalación (postural y energéticamente) al
exhalar y al llegar al punto que a se ha expulsado el aire tratar de emitir con
el resto un último soplo por la nariz que hace "puff". En ese momento
si diriges tu atención con mucha delicadez y práctica sentirás una leve
contracción entre el ano y los genitales. Entonces tratas de mantener ese tono
suavemente y muy sutil al inhalar conservando la calidad residual de la
exhalación en la inhalación. Llevando la atención de la inhalación como una
fina llama que nace desde el suelo pélvico y asciende por el canal medio del
cuerpo hacia arriba.
" Ofreciendo el aliento inhalado en aquel aliento que se exhala, y ofreciendo el aliento que se exhala en aquel que se inhala, el yogui netraliza estos dos alientos; de este modo libera el prana del corazón y lo pone bajo control"Bhagavad Gita
La segunda fase de mula bandha, que en Ashtanga yoga llaman
"uddiyana bandha" (no confundir con uddiyana bandha kriya que
solamente es posible durante la completa exhalación con retención vacío
de aire bahya kumbhaka) es la continuación de mula
bandha y consiste es
una ligera retracción hacía atrás (hacía dentro) del muro abdominal, pero
solamente a la altura del hueso púbica, no contrayendo más arriba para dejar
total libertad al diafragma para poder ascender y descender. Es decir al inhalar y exhalar la barriga
está inmóvil, la parte lumbar se levanta, esa mini contracción es mantenida
durante
todo el ciclo respiratorio, pero la parte superior abdominal no está
tensa. Una manera fácil de ver la correcta aplicación los bandhas es verificar
el suelo pélvico y la parte abdominal encima del hueso púbico ya que es muy difícil
contraer uno sin que el otro no responda automáticamente.
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| Uddiyana bandha |
Puesto que el tono muscular a nivel abdominal es mucho más fácil
de manipular en un principio que el tejido del suelo pélvico. Es de gran utilidad
partir de algunos ejercicios para ayudar a sentir la contracción que produce
mula bandha.
Sentado en padmasana (postura ideal ya que toda la parte inferior
suelo
pélvico, cóccix conectan con el suelo) manteniendo una postura firme y con la espalda recta,
situado unos palillos o la punta de los dedos a la altura de la
pelvis y sintiendo como al inhalar esa franja abdominal es retraída hacía atrás
mientras que los glúteos imaginariamente son llevados hacía abajo y luego al
exhalar completamente y expulsando el último "puff" de aire, descrito
anteriormente es fácil poder manipular los bandhas.
Otra manera para las personas que no pueden sentarse en padmasana.
Es tumbarse hacia arriba, doblar las piernas y llevar la punta de los dedos en
los mismo puntas del muro abdominal y tratar de sentir la retracción abdominal y
la contracción del suelo pélvico sincronizado con la respiración.
Un ejercicio de gran utilidad es uddiyana bandha kriya, al
succionar todo el tono muscular hacia atrás y arribar y crear ese vacío interno
de aire hace que por la misma fuerza sea
muy fácil sentir con el tejido del
suelo pélvico es traído hacia arriba.
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| Uddiyana bandha kriya |
Es infinitamente recomendable el libro moola bandha: The master
key.
miércoles, 2 de octubre de 2013
Interview with Sofia Xirotiri
Thanks a lot Sofia Xirotiri for your time its a honor for me. Your practice is a great inspiration.
1-what is your background in yoga?
2-Do you have some special diet?
SX: I started my practice in Ashtanga yoga 2008 with my teacher Savvas Yiantsis we went to Goa for a workshop with Taric Tamic 2010 and then I decided to travel to Mysore...from then I travel to Mysore every year for practice with Sharath.i keep a healthy diet consists many fruits Greek yogurt salads and vegetables.
Daily practice with my teacher and teaching keeps me inspired and happy!!!![]() |
| Sofia Xirotiri |
lunes, 30 de septiembre de 2013
sábado, 28 de septiembre de 2013
From Aparoksanubhuti by Sri Shankaracharya
"The steps, in order, are described as follows: the control of the senses,
the control of the mind, renunciation, silence, space, time,
posture, the restraining root (mulabandha), the equipoise of the body,
the firmness of vision, the control of vital forces, the withdrawal of the mind,
concentration, self-contemplation and complete absorption"
*these fifteen steps include the eight steps of Patanjali, but with a reorentation of meaning as will be evident from the following.
viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2013
From Yoga Taravali by Sri Shankaracharya
I bow to the two lotus feet
of the (plurality of ) Gurus
Which awaken insight into
the happiness of pure Being,
Which are the complete
absorption, the jungle physician,
which eliminate the delusion
caused by the poisonous herb of
Samsara (conditioned existence).
There are 125,000 (meaning,
numberless) methods of laya
(yogic disolution) described
by Lord Siva in the world.
It is my opinion that nada
-anusandhana (pursuit of
“Inner Sound”) into the
deepest samadhi is the best
of all these layas.
With full exhaling, full
inhaling, and retention
of the breath, all of the
nadis are cleaned out. Then
through the anahata cakra
(the heart/ “wheel of the
unstruck sound”) many types
of internal sound are
expressed inside.
Obeisances to you,
Nadanusandhana (also a name
of Siva). The practice of you
gives birth to experience of the
highest truth. By your kindness
and with the internal breath,
may my mind dissolve into the
lotus feet of Visnu.
They say that jalandhara,
uddyiana, and mula bandhas
are deep in the throat, the
abdomen, and the root of the
anus. Having established these
three bandhas all around,
where is the dread of the noose
of time?
By uddiyana, jalandhara, and
mula bandhas the sleeping
serpent wakes up (makes an
about face) turns back, and
enters the susumna (central
channel). Then the coming
and going of the breath ceases.
By constantly squeezing the
Apana Vayu a bright torch
of fire rises up from the
muladhaara. Because of that
heat streams of nectar fall from
the moon (at the root of the
palate) to be drunk by the
fortunate.
The shining of the effulgent Paramatma
totally destroys the darkness of ignorance.
O Wonder! The Awakened One,
who has no fault (no imperfection) in their seeing,
sees not a “thing” in this whole world!
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Sri Shankaracharya
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2013
Four verse on yoga by Shankaracharya (Mula bandha)
Aparoksanubhuti
I bow to Sri Hari, the supreme bliss, the primary teacher,
the Isvara, the all-pervading cause of all the worlds.
One should know that a real Yoga asana is that
in which meditations flows unceasingly with openness and ease,
and is not that in which happiness is destroyed.
That which is the root of all beings,
that root which bonds all of the mind
(all thought and experience)
That is Mula bandha, which should always be served
(attended to) and which is fit for rajayogins.
By making the vrtti (present pattern of mind the object of meditation)
still, and then intuiting it to be sacred (the infinite Brahman), there is
the complete forgetting of the vrtti in the wisdom known as Samadhi.
One should know that a real Yoga asana is that
in which meditations flows unceasingly with openness and ease,
and is not that in which happiness is destroyed.
That which is the root of all beings,
that root which bonds all of the mind
(all thought and experience)
That is Mula bandha, which should always be served
(attended to) and which is fit for rajayogins.
By making the vrtti (present pattern of mind the object of meditation)
still, and then intuiting it to be sacred (the infinite Brahman), there is
the complete forgetting of the vrtti in the wisdom known as Samadhi.
martes, 24 de septiembre de 2013
Interview with Alexandros
Thanks a lot for your time and answear some question, its a honor for me. Thanks a lot Alexandros, your practice is a great inspiration.
I am not very experienced in yoga and I only practice less than 6 years. I started with hatha yoga then with anusara yoga and only with ashtanga yoga a bit less than 4 years. It all started for me because I had terrible pain in my back and my stomach and doctors told me that I was perfectly healthy , then I realized I had to
look elsewhere for answers. I did Reiki, self healing and energy work that help unblock a lot of energy channels, then I met my spiritual teacher Alba in the paramita path you can check her out in google. I received strong atunements , kundalini awakening and very high pure energies started to flow, my heart opened we did many mediations on the internet for the earth, lost souls etc. Then my heart started to open more and then I started yoga. I was already open!! So ashtanga came and changed my life even more. Ashtanga primary for me is the beginning and the end and I know I will practice until I die. I also know that my practice will change and it changes all the time. It becomes less physical and more energy-prana as I grow older! With ashtanga we age with grace! It is so beautiful. Yes I have been injured a few times but it is always my ego that has caused the injuries not the yoga (pushing myself and not listening to my body). Earlier in the year I had a deep iliopsoas tear building 4th series and I had to be very careful on all the
backbend asanas for 3 months a lot of pain! Mula bandha hhhm! So difficult to say .. it is always there but also always elusive. I will be finding and loosing it but as the physical body becomes more pure and clean it becomes easier to find it .. I think.
1-Do you think that the Ashtanga yoga series can be practice whole life?
2-Why did you start practicing yoga?
3-have you ever been injured?
4-Do you think that after all this years of practicing, you already have found Mula bandha (in the full sense physical / energetic) or you are still looking?
I am not very experienced in yoga and I only practice less than 6 years. I started with hatha yoga then with anusara yoga and only with ashtanga yoga a bit less than 4 years. It all started for me because I had terrible pain in my back and my stomach and doctors told me that I was perfectly healthy , then I realized I had to
look elsewhere for answers. I did Reiki, self healing and energy work that help unblock a lot of energy channels, then I met my spiritual teacher Alba in the paramita path you can check her out in google. I received strong atunements , kundalini awakening and very high pure energies started to flow, my heart opened we did many mediations on the internet for the earth, lost souls etc. Then my heart started to open more and then I started yoga. I was already open!! So ashtanga came and changed my life even more. Ashtanga primary for me is the beginning and the end and I know I will practice until I die. I also know that my practice will change and it changes all the time. It becomes less physical and more energy-prana as I grow older! With ashtanga we age with grace! It is so beautiful. Yes I have been injured a few times but it is always my ego that has caused the injuries not the yoga (pushing myself and not listening to my body). Earlier in the year I had a deep iliopsoas tear building 4th series and I had to be very careful on all the
backbend asanas for 3 months a lot of pain! Mula bandha hhhm! So difficult to say .. it is always there but also always elusive. I will be finding and loosing it but as the physical body becomes more pure and clean it becomes easier to find it .. I think.
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