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Krishnamacharya,
1888-1989
Mysore, India
Krishnamacharya
(shown above) was the principal guru/teacher to the three foremost
Yoga teachers known to the modern world: T.K.V. Desikachar, B.K.S.
Iyengar, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Krishnamacharya was a scholar
of classical Sanskrit grammar and translator of the ancient Yoga
texts, which detail the methods of Yoga in practice and philosophy.
He is notably the most important influence on Yoga knowledge of
the 20th century.
Yoga
as Medicine
Yoga
and Ayurveda are the traditional medical practices of India with
a common approach to health and healing, by viewing the person from
a quantum perspective in which energy is more important than physical
matter. The body is viewed as a series of energy channels full of
currents, vibrations and pulsations. The blockage of these channels,
or nadis, is seen as the fundamental cause of disease.
Hatha Yoga
Hatha
yoga was created to help the practitioner achieve a meditative pose.
This system is based on the principle that changes in consciousness
can be brought about by setting in motion currents of subtle energy
(prana), and aligning these currents with universal consciousness.
In Hatha yoga every physical form, movement or
action is preceded by a mental form, movement or action, and designed
to place the nadis into specific spatial and energetic alignment.
Through deep, even diaphramatic breathing with full expansion and
complete contraction prana, the vital life force is mobilized, ultimately
allowing for the release and free flow of energy throughout
the body.
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