Joe, I market the Buddhist Yoga that I teach expressly to practitioners of meditation in all traditions. This narrows the field of "takers", but keeps me honest: it's all I want to teach for. Muscles are not the point, and it's more for the connective tissue and flexibility and comfort (deepest relaxation), ...which three things really help to deepen meditation. As you prob. know!
Sounds like yin yoga. But they call yin yoga Taoist yoga, instead of Buddhist yoga. Not that it matters :) Siska -----Original Message----- From: "Joe" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:57:25 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [Zen] Re: California Lawsuit Against Yoga? Bill!, (Ashtanga Yoga can be "Googled"). It's "flow-yoga", as currently marketed. Asanas are practiced one after the other, without a break, one flowing into or leading into the next, often quite quickly. "Asana" of course means "seat", with the implied meaning being a "seat" for meditation: a basis, and a tool. One should be able to meditate in any asana. And, to practice well, one will BE in a meditative state always when practicing asana. Some (Yoga-) schools or teachers market it as "Power Yoga", which I think sells better, and avoids the classical or ancient-sounding reference. Like a lot of Yoga marketed and practiced in the West, it's often not set in a spiritual context. I think it's for the muscles. Perhaps the very best teachers are nonetheless able to encourage students to practice meditatively. I don't see much of this going on. I market the Buddhist Yoga that I teach expressly to practitioners of meditation in all traditions. This narrows the field of "takers", but keeps me honest: it's all I want to teach for. Muscles are not the point, and it's more for the connective tissue and flexibility and comfort (deepest relaxation), ...which three things really help to deepen meditation. As you prob. know! --Joe > "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > The yoga is Ashtanga Yoga and I don't know anything about it.
