from Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranda (Mysore 1934) I'm bumping into this video all over the place this week... I'm bumping into this video all over the place this week. What somebody does or doesn't do in their practice is nothing to do with me and heaven knows I've e…

"Backbend" for convenience sake but really we should be thinking of these as perhaps spine lengtheners we want to create space in the spine rather than compression. Here's a nice link to a post at Wild.yogi.com from Simon Borg-Olivier on....  How to Backband Un-injuriously, …

In Krishnamacharya's Mysore books, written in the period he was teaching the young Pattabhi Jois Krishnamacharya gives instructions for introducing short kumbhakas (breath retentions) during the practice of asana. This was an option that for some reason was never carried over into Pat…