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a's own asana
and
pranayama
Krishnamacharya teaching - photo unrelated to post below.
practice...
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a seems to
from Revisiting T. Krishnamacharya – founder of modern yoga _ Radhika's blog
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"The modern, professional-looking and bustling Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram set up in his memory is a far cry from the spartan along with...
house in Gopalapuram (in Chennai) where I first encountered Krishnamacharya, and yoga. I was a young teenager on my summer
vacation after my first year out of high school, when I was appointed by my father to accompany my invalid mother, who had suffered Krishnamachary
a practicing at
successive accidents that had rendered her virtually immobile and almost always in pain, to Chennai. There, Krishnamacharya, whom
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my father knew through a common friend, was going to use yoga to help her heal. For a young teen to be asked to spend her annual
vacation in a city with no friends, and with nothing to do but to escort an infirm parent to some old healer every day, was not the most Encountering T.
attractive deal. But my authoritarian father was not one to be questioned, and I resigned myself to my fate.
Krishnamacha
rya
Every day, once in the morning and again in the early evening, my mother and I would take a taxi from our hotel to Krishnamacharya’s
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home for an hour’s instruction. He always appeared remote, wrapped in some self-sufficient world that did not require communication Krishnamacha
with visitors beyond classroom instruction. His was not a severe face; indeed it was a handsome sharp-featured one, with large rya's head
luminous eyes and an enigmatic smile that lit up his features, although the reason for its existence did not seem to be to enhance and
social interaction. I don’t remember him ever make small talk, or even show the slightest interest in us beyond addressing my mother’s shouldersta...
ailments. But he gave us his undivided and intense attention while teaching, and taught my mother with great gentleness.

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Within a couple of days of starting her instruction, he seemed to notice my presence, and commanded me to take my place on another Breath holding
mat. I complied wordlessly; his voice did not give me a choice. For the next two months, every morning and evening, he taught me and
yoga with the same attentiveness that he showed my mother, even though teaching me was not part of the original understanding with heightened
him. He also taught me how to assist my mother in performing her asanas. He demanded the slowest of breathing and movement, and ar...
his hawk eyes never left me for a minute, making sure that every movement was executed absolutely correctly. I learnt to be terrified of 1970s Article
him, as he was as ferociously strict with me as he was gentle with my mother. But I could also sense his restrained pleasure in seeing titled 'About
me respond easily to the instruction, young as I was and unhampered by ailments; and the perfection that he expected from every Sri T
movement, and his unrelenting supervision, motivated me to try harder to come up to his expectations. By the end of our time with him, Krishnamacha
he had even taught me the Sirasasana (head stand).
rya,...

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vastly. And I had discovered that I had a naturally supple body. We went back to our lives in Bombay and in due course, I stopped
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complex yoga postures sculpted along the walls of the compound. I had never been in quite such a place. It looked a bit weird. I saw
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actually found the ‘source’ of the global phenomenon that was Iyengar! All those people in all those distant foreign countries waiting for
him to turn up for a Master class… And here he was, in my own home, so to say…

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At the top of the stairs I stopped short in total astonishment. On the wall to my left was a larger than life black and white portrait of
Krishnamacharya, hands folded in namaskar, his luminous face and enigmatic smile exactly as I remembered it. I hesitated for a
moment, staring at it …after all these years… what was the old man doing here? I raced across the hall to the lone person sitting 言語を選択
behind one of the many empty counters.

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“The office is closed. Come back later”. And he went back to whatever he was doing.
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“I need to know…Who is the man in that photograph?”

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