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Question: Was the Ashtanga Vinyasa count developed merely to test the boys of the Mysore palace?

Above Krishnamacharya's Yoga school for the boys of the Mysore palace, set up in 1933 by Krishnamacharya's patron the Maharaja of Mysore (photo from Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda pub. Mysore 1934). Schools tend to have a syllabus, exams (diploma's)...., don't they? …

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…