Krishnamacharya at 50, even in his later years Krishnamacharya was supposedly practicing up to three hours of asana a day, he never lost faith in asana it seems even practicing it in his hospital be in his 90s after a fall and broken hip. Here he is in a rare scent from the 1938 Mysore fo…

Siddhar text Many of the oldest Siddhar texts are palm leaf manuscripts and not all of them are translated in English. - The earliest extant palm leaf manuscrips go back to the 4th century. See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/incredible-powers-ancient-siddh…

Notes to Self  I've held off posting this... draft, but listening to David Garrigues interview with Claudia this morning (see below) persuaded me to brush it off a little. David too talks of less asana and seeing them as gestures whereas I had suggested perhaps mudras.  No, I don'…

Aranya's Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali my personal favourite presentation of the Yoga Sutras  partly because he had lived in a cave for twenty odd years before writing it and had also studied western philosophy as well as that of his own culture. * Patanjali had of course never heard o…