Oh My Goodness, Sharath Jois, son or grandson of the legend, late Pattabhi Jois is coming to Stanford?
DATES: May 7 – 13
LOCATION: Ford Center, Basketball Courts – Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
COST: $300 (6 Day Week) or Primary Series $60 per Class,
Intermediate Series $180 for 3 Classes
If you are practicing Ashtanga, you already know all this …
It’s a very physically demanding practice but many get hooked.
If you are one of those people, I imagine you’d want to be in space with this celebrity teacher …a direct lineage to witness.
Even if you are beginner, it’s a big crowd looks like so it would not matter in the primary series – the intermediate would be intimidating perhaps.
Sign up can be done through Jois Yoga studio’s events section …
What does Ashtanga look like? Ashtanga is really the basis of the vinyasa style of yoga practiced all over the world.
Here’s an old clip from the internet with Maty and all the masters in her 20’s.
Here it is – in awe, right?
& that’s the point – perfect for those in their 20’s as old footage of Iyengar’s practice looks about as vigorous.
When you are in your 20’s, you can do anything, sighed the 30, 40, 50- somthings, lol:)
It is said that even the guru himself did not practice what he taught past age 40 – he had his grandson do all the demos:)
Yoga evolves with one’s life stages.
It requires letting go of attachments and embracing acceptance … to age gracefully I think.
At least that’s what I am learning from those inspiring elders I have the honor of coming in contact with.
If you understand that some of the vigorous yoga practice was developed so that young men with raging testosterone and limitless energy can reign in the constant need to move …to get all the fidgeting and the wiggles, the craziness, “the chaos” the explosive energy to get better directed out of the body … so that the young minds can focus. Be able to channel the bursts of energy into a demanding yoga practice, enough so that they can learn to stay still enough to move onto one’s meditation practice. Yoga’s ultimate goal is that meditation practice that bridges the mind and body to give the humans that essence of the spiritual world without having to die… As yoga philosophy traveled further East in Asia, the asana/poses, mingled with other training to became “martial art” and the other “meditation”, became a more religious or spiritual practice. It’s interesting to say the least. All this an overly simplistic synopsis from couple of yogic scholars who has done extensive studies on the origin and history of yoga.
Makes for an interesting read … here’s a recommended book by late Steve Jobs …lucky to get it for free from one of the Therapist TT cohorts – she said she happened to have an extra copy of it and as I had never read it, gladly picked it up. Piling on the must-reads, as though I don’t have enough reading assignments from this program:) The documentary is interesting as well.
