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Location: A Blue State | I've run into some posture names in Iyengar yoga that I cannot find in Light of Yoga.
Can anybody clarify?
Utthana Bhekasana (is this Supta Bhekasana in LOY?)
Urdhva Dhanurasana II (what's the difference between I and II?)
Chakrasana (is this the same as Ashtanga's backward somersault?)
Sukhasana and Swastikasana (what's the difference?)
Is it likely that there will be an updated version of LOY in the near future? |
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| Utthana Bhekasana - don't know. The "utt" would indicate a forward bend??
Urdhva Dhanurasana II - is in LOY. It is the version were you start standing rather than with hands and feet on the floor and push up.
Chakrasana - is in LOY. It is the back handspring.
Sukhasana and Swastikasana - no difference. Just different names like Tadasana and Samasthiti.
The newer versions of LOY have larger photos and different layouts plus there are "concise" versions which have fewer words but I don't think it will be updated in the sense of rewritten. BKS is working on a 13 volume series of many of his talks and articles called Yoga Mala Astadala (I think that's right) which will keep him busy! Apparently it took three years to get the photos in LOY just right. Of course this was back in the day of no computer imaging or editing! |
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Location: A Blue State | Thanks!
The Chakrasana that I saw was on a list that also had Viparita Chakrasana (the backward
handspring), so it appeared to mean something different. Same thing with UD II:
the list had the drop back as if it were a separate asana from UD II. It could be that this
is just a sloppy list, 'though, so maybe the differences are not meaningful.
Utthana Bhekasana, if it's like Supta Bhekasana, would be done as a backward bend.
Lie in Supta Virasana, slip the hands under the feet, and then arch upward onto
the elbows, finally having knees, elbows, and crown of head on the floor with legs
held as in Bhekasana. It may be that "Utt" is intended here as in the sense of "intense".
I just started working on that pose last night. It's harder to get out of than to get into
at this point. |
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| ut - means intense, sometimes upwards, certainly not forward. tana means stetch. example:
pashchimottanasana: intense stretch of the backward portion of the body.
padottanasana: Intense stretch of the legs.
etc.
Neel Kulkarni
www.authenticyoga.org |
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| I stand corrected, of course "Utt" is intense, not forward. It is the frequent appearance of the syllable in names of forward bends that distracted me. Back to Sanskrit school for me! |
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