"..there must be 4 angulas* of space between the body and the ground. In this position, if you keep a stick or rod on top of the body, the rod must touch the body completely. We need to keep our body this straight.." ~ Yoga Makaranda
(*4 = 1 angulas dhanu graha (bow before) = 62 mm to 83 mm)
UPDATE
Can you sweat toxins out of your body?
Did you know your body has its own air conditioning system when it becomes too hot? It’s called sweating. Your body releases water on your skin, which then evaporates in order to cool down to the normal temperature of 98.6 degrees.
Sweat is 99% water combined with a small amount of salt, proteins, carbohydrates and urea, says UAMS family medicine physician Dr. Charles Smith. Therefore, sweat is not made up of toxins from your body, and the belief that sweat can cleanse the body is a myth.
“You cannot sweat toxins out of the body,” Dr. Smith says. “Toxins such as mercury, alcohol and most drugs are eliminated by your liver, intestines or kidneys.”
Some people have even participated in something called a “sweat lodge.” Some Native American cultures still use the lodge as a very important purification ceremony. However, Dr. Smith warns that these can become dangerous and sometimes result in injury or, in severe cases, death.
“By forcing your body to perspire through heat exposure or heavy exercise, you can cause your kidneys to save water and actually hang on to any toxins that may be circulating in your system,” he says.
http://www.uamshealth.com/?id=12247&sid=1
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Because I'm a Kidney Stones suffer I believe that excessive sweating is bad for me. What I need is for the extra liquid I take on board to flush through the kidneys not be sweated from the body before it reaches the them. Simon Borg-Oliver's abdominal breathing, which results in us sweating less may be a godsend for the coming 90% humidity Osaka summer.
Update
Also this from the LA Times
THE HEALTHY SKEPTIC
You sweat, but toxins likely stay
Infrared saunas are a popular detox option. But experts say chemicals aren't washed out that way.
from the article
"But, Glaser (Dr. Dee Anna Glaser, a professor of dermatology at St. Louis University and founding member of the International Hyperhidrosis Society), adds, in the big picture, sweat has only one function: Cooling you down when you overheat. "Sweating for the sake of sweating has no benefits," she says. "Sweating heavily is not going to release a lot of toxins."
In fact, Glaser says, heavy sweating can impair your body's natural detoxification system. As she explains, the liver and kidneys -- not the sweat glands -- are the organs we count on to filter toxins from our blood. If you don't drink enough water to compensate for a good sweat, dehydration could stress the kidneys and keep them from doing their job. "If you're not careful, heavy sweating can be a bad thing," she says.
Sweating definitely won't help clear the body of mercury or other metals, says Donald Smith, a professor of environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz, who studies treatments for metal poisoning. Almost all toxic metals in the body are excreted through urine or feces, he says. And less than 1% are lost through sweat. In other words, you'll do far more detoxifying in the bathroom than you ever could in a sauna".
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/28/health/he-skeptic28?hc_location=ufi
But see also this article
Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury in Sweat: A Systematic Review
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312275/
(*4 = 1 angulas dhanu graha (bow before) = 62 mm to 83 mm)
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| picture from Ashtanga Yoga Center Of Bangkok. - AYBKK Thank you to Tonia of Yoga with Tonia for sharing this one, great fb page, nice content shared. |
Krishnamacharya
Pattabhi Jois
Sharath
Note: For Krishnamacharya, Chatauranga was an asana, with a vinyasa to and from it, he recommends staying for 10 minutes ( I do just five long, slow breaths and call it quits). For Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Chatauranga is treated more as a vinyasa, in the sense of transition to and from an asana which might explain the different set up.
Also in Krishnamacharya's instructions he mentions that Rod should be able to lie flat along the back and was no doubt aiming for that in the picture.
In several places Krishnamacharys will direct us to look at the picture, or study the picture carefully suggesting he was very much involved in the direction of all the photos taken for Yoga Makaranda.what we see in Krishnamacharya's pictures is what he wanted us to see and be informed by.
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| Krishnamacharya in his 80s from Yogasangalu 4th edition |
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Can you sweat toxins out of your body?
or
"Don't bother going out of your way to sweat (unless you really enjoy it and have perfect kidneys)"
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"Don't bother going out of your way to sweat (unless you really enjoy it and have perfect kidneys)"
Bought some scales today, put on three kilo since leaving UK and coming to Japan ( with summer coming it'll drop back off). Something else I noticed, I used to sweat between 1 and 2 kilo into my yoga towel,
...this afternoons practice ( after work) only 0.2 kilo, barely a drop of sweat.....
All this abdominal breathing perhaps see THIS post.
I remember reading once before that sweating was the least effective of the five or six ways the body has of removing toxins from the body. This article goes even further....
Can you sweat toxins out of your body?Did you know your body has its own air conditioning system when it becomes too hot? It’s called sweating. Your body releases water on your skin, which then evaporates in order to cool down to the normal temperature of 98.6 degrees.
Sweat is 99% water combined with a small amount of salt, proteins, carbohydrates and urea, says UAMS family medicine physician Dr. Charles Smith. Therefore, sweat is not made up of toxins from your body, and the belief that sweat can cleanse the body is a myth.
“You cannot sweat toxins out of the body,” Dr. Smith says. “Toxins such as mercury, alcohol and most drugs are eliminated by your liver, intestines or kidneys.”
Some people have even participated in something called a “sweat lodge.” Some Native American cultures still use the lodge as a very important purification ceremony. However, Dr. Smith warns that these can become dangerous and sometimes result in injury or, in severe cases, death.
“By forcing your body to perspire through heat exposure or heavy exercise, you can cause your kidneys to save water and actually hang on to any toxins that may be circulating in your system,” he says.
http://www.uamshealth.com/?id=12247&sid=1
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Because I'm a Kidney Stones suffer I believe that excessive sweating is bad for me. What I need is for the extra liquid I take on board to flush through the kidneys not be sweated from the body before it reaches the them. Simon Borg-Oliver's abdominal breathing, which results in us sweating less may be a godsend for the coming 90% humidity Osaka summer.
Update
Also this from the LA Times
THE HEALTHY SKEPTIC
You sweat, but toxins likely stay
Infrared saunas are a popular detox option. But experts say chemicals aren't washed out that way.
from the article
"But, Glaser (Dr. Dee Anna Glaser, a professor of dermatology at St. Louis University and founding member of the International Hyperhidrosis Society), adds, in the big picture, sweat has only one function: Cooling you down when you overheat. "Sweating for the sake of sweating has no benefits," she says. "Sweating heavily is not going to release a lot of toxins."
In fact, Glaser says, heavy sweating can impair your body's natural detoxification system. As she explains, the liver and kidneys -- not the sweat glands -- are the organs we count on to filter toxins from our blood. If you don't drink enough water to compensate for a good sweat, dehydration could stress the kidneys and keep them from doing their job. "If you're not careful, heavy sweating can be a bad thing," she says.
Sweating definitely won't help clear the body of mercury or other metals, says Donald Smith, a professor of environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz, who studies treatments for metal poisoning. Almost all toxic metals in the body are excreted through urine or feces, he says. And less than 1% are lost through sweat. In other words, you'll do far more detoxifying in the bathroom than you ever could in a sauna".
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/28/health/he-skeptic28?hc_location=ufi
But see also this article
Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury in Sweat: A Systematic Review
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312275/
