Started a new evening practice. Just a few key asana (about half an hour) as prep for the Pranayama and Meditation. It cut's into my meditation time, I'm used to forty minutes Vipassana in the evening, but I'm becoming sold on the idea of preparing for the sit rather than jumping straight on the cushion. Still doing my usual VK modified Ashtanga practice in the morning.
Tadasana
Chanted Sury Namaskara
Uttanasana
Paschimottanasana
Maha Mudra (like Janu A without the forward bend, all locks engaged)
5 minute Sarvangasana (plus a minute or two of Shoulder stand prep poses)
10 minute Sirsasana (headstand)
Badha konasana
Padmasana
10-20 minutes Pranayama ( kapalabhati and Anuloma Viloma)
5-10 minutes Pratyahara
20- 30 minutes Dhyanna/Meditation
Takes an hour to ninety minutes depending how much time I have to practice.
Came across an interesting podcast too while researching Pratyahara Wrote a post on this earlier in the week). Go to Itunes and look up Vedanta and Yoga then scroll through the podcasts until you reach 142. Raja Yoga Pratyahara and Dharana It's episode seven of a series on Vivekananda's Raja Yoga ( just downloaded the rest of the series). Mark Singleton in Yoga Body credit's Vivekananda with being highly influential in the Yoga revival in India in the late 1800's. You can also find it in the Ramakrishna Vedanta society Boston websites podcast Archive here.
Just started reading the Mahabharata, love it, kind of like being able to read The Iliad for the first time all over again. Just waiting for Arjuna or somebody to throw a spear or rock that no ten men of today could life... and for someone to fall from the chariot with a clang of armour as darkness falls upon him.
Just heard about this in in London on Sunday here's the link, may well be going.
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Nice one, love your yogic life!, I need to get back into my Vipassana routine, it has gone down the sideways... thanks for sending the link to that podcast, another one to add to the repertoire of things to listen to, beautiful :-)
Thank you Claudia, just about to go up and do it now. Basically it's the Key asanas that Ramaswami recommends doing every day. Would be nice to be able to spend ten minutes or so in every posture with a half hour headstand and twice as long for the pranayama/dhyanna etc perhaps when I'm retired
Lovin the podcast, was listening to it all day at work, really like the speaker.
I am loving the speaker too, very connected, and I like how he changes tone when he reads straight from Vivekananda...
10 minutes in each pose... 30 in headstand?, yes, whenever we all retire to the caves... in the winter of life... then yes
Wow thanks for the link, that is literally just around the corner from my house! Text me if you're going and maybe I can come and find you..
I was thinking of you when i put it up Susan but felt sure you'd know about it.
I lived in a cave for a while in crete Claudia think there's a picture or two on FB, Read The Iliad there for the first time in a seat carved in the rocks overlooking the sea. The fleet would have sailed past on the way to Troy. Be nice to spend a month reading the full Mahabharata somewhere similar in india.
I like his little jokes. In Raja yoga episode 2 he kids around about neti pots and has some gentle digs at hatha. Get the feeling he's a little bemused by all the effort we put into asana.
Somehow I managed not to hear about it! Though I'm sure I would've worked out something was going on on Sunday :)
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