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Videos: Krishnamacharya's shoulderstand and headstand Vinyasas, Mysore 1938, Chennai 1972 and Madrid 2016

My good friend  Óscar Montero has put together some excellent videos of Srivatsa Ramaswami's recent Intensive in Madrid. Ramaswami', here teaching the very same Vinyasa's that his teacher of thirty plus years, Krishnamacharya, practiced and taught in Mysore in the 1930 and 40…

INVERSIONS: Krishnamacharya's head and shoulderstand variations 1934-1980s

I've been having a fun week revisiting Ramaswami's Vinyasa Krama Supine and Inverted sequences, exploring them within the context of Ashtanga. At first I would practice a regular Ashtanga Primary ( Krishnamacharya approach) and just add in the extra head and shoulder stand variati…