tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778763582972896352.post8673571531375957983..comments2023-07-25T09:09:07.233+01:00Comments on The Luminescent: International Day of Yoga: INTERVIEWS (Part 2)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5778763582972896352.post-51509689433242215072016-07-14T04:06:12.474+01:002016-07-14T04:06:12.474+01:00Mark, 'diachronic historical development'?...Mark, 'diachronic historical development'? Really? He said, "Yoga is a timeless practice." We both know he means Surya NAmaskara-based Vinyasa Yoga. WEI am sure 95% of the millions who celebrated that day via practice engaged some form of Surya Namaskara-based Sequence. That is what you overtly affirm does NOT have pre-20th century roots. You are quite clear that what might be ancient about it did NOT include Surya Namaskara as a dynamic, body (dandavat) based sequence of 12 or 16 poses. *That obviously is the style 1 million or whatever people were doing. <br /><br />It strikes me that Ban Ki-moon's emphasis on yoga as a timeless practice with inherent qualities puts his discourse on a different footing to one that would assume diachronic historical development within yoga. Also, it seems to me that, unlike the UN, modern transnational yoga isn't really a 'Yoga movement' at all in the sense of having a shared, declared charter or mission. Its history is far more varied, decentralised and tangled."<br />... "Although this position is replaced in Krishnamacharya’s sequence with the “push-up” posture known as caturāṅga dan!d!āsana , it is not unreasonable to speculate that the appellation<br />“ashtanga yoga” may indicate the system’s foundations in dands (reformulated<br />as āsana ) rather than any genealogical relationship with Patañjali’s eightfold<br />yoga. ….<br /> In this view, sūryanamaskar is a modern, physicalIt is signifi cant that the “su ̄ryanamaskār ” sequence (which is itself nothing more than a particular arrangement of dands) is in this book known as “Ashtang<br />Dand” (205), probably with reference to the position known in certain quarters<br />as “ as!t!āṅga namaskāra ,” in which eight parts of the body (feet, knees, hands,<br />chest, and chin) touch the ground simultaneously...<br />(once again) that at this time sūryanamaskār was not yet considered part of<br />yogāsana…”<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00775552113271734408noreply@blogger.com