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What does Pattabhi Jois' Advanced A/Third series Visvamitrasana photo tell us about the development of his Ashtanga Vinyasa syllabus.

This post is a follow on or continuation of my previous post Did Pattabhi Jois practice some or all of the Series he created and if so for how long? Sometime after writing the above post I decided to add an appendix relating to Pattabhi Jois' early photoshoot that resulted in the phot…

Did Pattabhi Jois practice some or all of the Series he created and if so for how long?

This post develops a question that came up on one of my blog post links on fb. Pattabhi Jois teaching Pranayama in 1964 published by Andre van Lysebeth in his book Pranayama. NB. The the person practicing pranayama is thought to be one of Pattabhi Jois Indian students, not Andre himself …