Ashtanga Yoga - The Intermediate Series: Mythology, Anatomy, and Practice (Ashtanga Yoga Intermediate Series)
Gregor Maehle
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN: 157731669X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
- The background and applications of each of the three forms of yoga: Karma, Bhakti, and Jnana
- How to use Indian myth and cosmology to deepen your practice
- The importance of the Sanskrit language to the yogic tradition
- The mythology behind the names of the Intermediate Series postures
- The functions and limitations of body parts integral to the Intermediate Series, including the spine, the sacroiliac joint, the shoulder joint, and the hip joint
- How to reap the full benefits of practicing the Intermediate Series
Maehle meticulously explores all twenty-seven postures of the Intermediate Series through photos, anatomical line drawings, and practical, informative sidebars. He also discusses the philosophical and spiritual background of Ashtanga Yoga and places the practice within the context of Indian cultural history. With passionate erudition, Maehle will prepare you to reap physical, spiritual, and mental fulfillment from your evolving practice.
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POSTURE Drishti Upward OVERVIEW: After the excitement of the backbends, leg-behind-head, and arm balances, the calming effect of a forward bend continues the winding down of the series. Vinyasa Count Vinyasa One Standing in Samasthiti, inhale, raise your arms, and look up. Vinyasa Two Exhaling, fold forward, placing your hands on either side of your feet. Vinyasa Three Inhaling, straighten your arms, flatten out your back, and look up. Vinyasa Four Exhaling, jump back into
is here on Earth. Jnana and Bhakti Yoga hold out the possibility — not a realistic one for most people — of reaching your goal with one giant step. Eight-limbed Karma Yoga, on the other hand, provides you with a spacecraft that you can use to reach your destination, a spacecraft similar to the Saturn V rocket that powered the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. The Saturn V had several stages. The first stage lifted the spacecraft to a certain height, and once its fuel had been exhausted the next
Upanishads are called shruti, “that which is heard.” As all knowledge and in fact the whole universe, according to the Vedas, consists of sound or vibratory patterns, mystical knowledge needs to be heard. Such knowledge can, of course, be conceived only by the rishis (seers), those who can listen and see to the bottom of their hearts, as that’s where the knowledge is. UPASANA KANDA OF THE VEDA The portion of the Veda dealing with worship, which gave rise to Bhakti Yoga. UPAVEDA An ancillary
for contributing valuable information in the fields of anatomy and asana and for her relentless pursuit of knowledge. PREFACE After my first book, Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, was published, many readers approached me requesting that I write a book on the intricacies of the Intermediate Series of Ashtanga Yoga. During the writing of this new book, which took more than two years, it became apparent to me that so much that we know today about yoga goes back to the late Shri T.
killing the bird. He then realizes that his outcry was spontaneously forged into metrical quarters, each containing the same number of syllables. Because it was produced by the sentiment grief (shoka), he calls his creation shloka. Later on, Valmiki is visited by Lord Brahma, who explains that what the seer discovered was in fact poetry, and he assigns him to cast into verse the entire tragedy of the life of Rama (the king of Ayodhya and sixth avatara of Lord Vishnu), which today we know as the