{"id":21805,"date":"2018-11-29T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:30:38","slug":"highly-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/highly-recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of an Authentic Teacher …"},"content":{"rendered":"

More book recommendations …<\/p>\n

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Here’s one – a life long practitioner … nothing like doing a Surya Namaskar to his chanting of the Sutras.\u00a0 You realize then that it’s about the entirety of lifetime of dedication, everyday,\u00a0 honoring of your body and mind at one’s own temple alter where movements synchronize to your breath. It’s such a buzz to hear the mantra as we move … each sound strikes a chord; it’s a rush.<\/p>\n

Not only to have the Sutras – Vedas verses memorized, but to chant them along with breath regulation moving through one Asana to next sequence … is no easy feat – a masterful and daily practice is reflected. Amazing feeling when your mind is crystal clear, blood veins and arteries flowing as they should, there’s this alertness and clarity but there’s calmness.\u00a0 It’s how we wish to feel every single moment – fully ALIVE & AWAKE \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u201cAsana practice should ultimately lead to the ability to be seated for a long time, so you can do pranayama and meditation, and so the body is not a source of distraction. Meditation cannot be done without proper preparation.\u201d – so true … unless of course, the asana practice also weaves in a degree of “light” version meditation …i.e., my Yin\/Yang fusion practice.\u00a0 When time for self-care is scarce and limited, efficient and practical means to do all three – anasa, pranayama, meditation –\u00a0 in one session – a way to compensate that’s only effective if you string together each class, as though a peal bead, one after another into a beautiful long strand of a well rounded personal practice.\u00a0 It’s kind of like those acupuncture sessions – one time does nothing – we have to repeat over and over and relatively SAME so that there’s a way of noticing any changes in one’s body and mind. If the sequences kept changing weekly, then, there’s no way to notice any subtle changes for the bettter.<\/p>\n

Sir Srivatsa Ramaswami used to teach 200hrs TT but now he only offers 100 hrs. Few years ago, had a weeklong workshop series having the 200 hrs already- as just continuing education I had the honor of attending.<\/p>\n

Today wishing to learn direct again from this master teacher – while he’s still able. He’s a very humble man – 80 years old teaching teachers. It’s so ridiculous that he’s just 500 hrs. experienced yoga teacher ?\u00a0 He’t too modest – how about maybe thousands of lifelong hours … his experience and training is beyond these current 200 hrs. 500\u00a0 hrs. stuff – he’s above and beyond – how about Teacher Emeritus status – it’s just so ridiculous that he should even be in the same category …as me ( right?)\u00a0 in the directory –\u00a0 and I guess that’s why some teachers find Yoga Alliance to be irrelevant.\u00a0 Can you believe it?\u00a0 Srivatsa Ramaswami is like a PhD professor of yoga and … he’s e-500 hrs.?\u00a0 It’s ludicrous … It’s like bestowing? BKS Iyengar that he’s e-500 hrs. certified … it’s like a joke.\u00a0 It’s a joke when yoga teacher’s organization promoting yoga teacher’s training and education is unable to recognize the Master Teachers as a class of their own … a teacher who publishes a book that can be considered a textbook is … just 500 hrs. – ah… for Sir Srivatsa Ramaswami, simple math tells me at least 20-30,000 hours.\u00a0 It’s a crazy world we live in where marketing and promotion is so part of this commercialization of yoga.\u00a0 And true yogis, really don’t care – they all show up to his workshops and seminars as we know – We know who’s real vs an impostor …guess, that’s what counts – those who care to receive his gifts, the lineage to somehow be passed on will …show up.\u00a0 For the discerning practitioner, we know who the real teachers are and we seek them out.<\/p>\n

An authentic teacher, with so much knowledge to be teaching yoga at a University but still willing to travel to humbly pass on what he learned from over 30 years under the father of modern yoga (i.e., Master teacher to BKS Iyengar & P. Jois, both), the legendary Krishnamarcharya.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Hindu philosophy, life is determined by the number of breaths you take. If you slow the breath down, you live longer,\u201d per Ramaswami … and interestingly, modern science has proven that basic yoga principal to be true.\u00a0 That is, if you manage your stress through various yoga techniques, including all 8 limbs of yoga, then,\u00a0 it’s no longer anecdotal but true evidence based science.\u00a0 To get out of the fight, fright, freeze modes to really value balance – the importance of balance in our nervous system and to that end, the power of breath is …\u00a0 all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More book recommendations … Here’s one – a life long practitioner … nothing like doing a Surya Namaskar to his chanting of the Sutras.\u00a0 You realize then that it’s about the entirety of lifetime of dedication, everyday,\u00a0 honoring of your body and mind at one’s own temple alter where movements synchronize to your breath. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21855,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions\/21855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}