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BostonBrian

Posted 2004-08-10 7:37 PM (#9051)
Subject: Mysore

I'm considering starting Mysore Ashtanga. I think I would enjoy the self paced quality.

Do other practice Mysore? What have you seen as the benefits. How does it compare to more "traditonal" classes?

Thanks for any and all info. b.

YogaDancer

Posted 2004-08-16 8:57 AM (#9181 - in reply to #9051)
Subject: RE: Mysore

Mysore is Ashtanga.

The benefits? How about taking the actual, intended point of hatha yoga, which is readying the body and mind for meditation, and actuall doing it?

Mysore is the culmination of the Ashtanga pracitce. Once one has the Primary (or any other) Series memorized, the breath has become the metronone, the rocking flow mesmerizing the body, bandhas held, dristhi found without thought, and the mind is still one can actually enter that fabulous state of Dharana. True meditation in motion.

No yammering teacher, no stopping and losing focus, no folding unending props, no intrusions into your weird Zone place where you look up and do not know where you are for a moment or two.

Benefits? The experiencing the absolute point of the Hatha limb of yoga.
Comparison? There is none to be made as no other practice encourages you move past the teacher in this fashion.

Every other type of yoga, including the Ashtanga led classes, is but a step to silent, meditative, self- practice.

Practicing Mysore is truly doing Hatha yoga as it is intended to be.

Christine

YogaGuy

Posted 2004-09-24 10:18 AM (#10248 - in reply to #9051)
Subject: RE: Mysore

****, Christine!

That was a beautiful post! Now you've made me want to start practicing ashtanga again!

redtail

Posted 2004-09-26 12:34 AM (#10285 - in reply to #10248)
Subject: RE: Mysore

Thanks for resurrecting this thread YogaGuy. It was missed the first time around. This could be straight out of a yoga sutra!! Have you ever considered writing a book Christine??

Namaste

YogaDancer

Posted 2004-09-27 4:44 PM (#10319 - in reply to #10285)
Subject: RE: Mysore

Nahhh..
No one is interested in a big discourse from me.

Besides, I have the attention span of a gnat.
Perhaps that is why Mysore is so valuable to me: I can actually focus and lose myself in that focus!

C.

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