mindfulthrow1

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   by mindfulthrow1 7y ago

   It’s not about the asana being “right” or “wrong”, and in many cases I’d say it doesn’t even matter what the asanas are in your practice, as long as they’re moving the practitioner towards dhyana. But would you not admit that there is a lot
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   by mindfulthrow1 7y ago

   “Since you're hopelessly caught within the webs of orientalist spiders, suffice it here to say - what you see of India is not India.” Well, I surely will never be able to have the same context as those that grew up in South Asia, like
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   by mindfulthrow1 7y ago

   Mark Singleton wrote that everyone misunderstood his argument. It’s not that Yoga is Scandinavian, it’s that a bunch of modern asana isn’t all that old. Because westerners really only have encountered the Krishnamacharya (through Iyenger an
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   by mindfulthrow1 7y ago

   I’m not totally sure I follow, are you saying most in (non-English, elite) India know that yoga isn’t really a Vedic practice and accept a syncretic history? Admittedly it’s hard to get a feel for that as a westerner when you see someone li
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   by mindfulthrow1 7y ago

   “SOAS for instance has one guy who was anointed a Mahant, and he writes books with another guy who says Yoga is a cynical rebranding of Swedish exercises.” I’m assuming you mean James Mallinson. I met him briefly in Jaipur and had been wond