Have you read this?
:lol:
I couldn’t stomach more than a couple paragraphs.
"…Iyengar created a complex unmoving style. He decided that moving yoga had “ill effects” and kept yogis from “going deep.”
This statement comes from the article, are you sure that this man has any idea what he is talking about? Pop goes another bubble!
[QUOTE=Pandara;15991]"…Iyengar created a complex unmoving style. He decided that moving yoga had “ill effects” and kept yogis from “going deep.”
This statement comes from the article, are you sure that this man has any idea what he is talking about? Pop goes another bubble![/QUOTE]
No, I’m not sure he has any idea. I was just trying to look at his article with gentleness and good humor. I like to think he wouldn’t write it if he didn’t care, or feel passionate about yoga. Maybe he just wants to fill the page with his insights so that the world will see how uniquely “smart” he is.
I’m not sure who he is, this is all I could find when google searching the author, and that he teaches yoga in San Francisco, CA -
MONDAY, MARCH 03, 2008
Eric Shaw, Yoga in America: The Marketing of Hinduism by Multiculturalists East and West
(This presentation was a part of CIIS Multiversity February 2008.)
Integral Yoga was the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, CIIS?s patron saint, and Hatha Yoga is the quintessential Body/Mind/Spirit practice of the type propounded by the school?s mission statement. Aurobindo, like Swami Vivekananda, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and Pierre Bernard, was an Anglo-Indian syncretist who re-tooled yoga for the Western mind. This slide lecture is about these luminaries and others who used Cartesian and New Age Healing modalities to change yoga and plant the seeds for today?s Pop Yoga phenomenon.
Eric Shaw, MARS, MASE, RYT, attended the American Academy of Religions conference in San Diego, CA in November of 2007. He is a yoga teacher and third year PhD student at CIIS focused on Hindu Religion and Philosophy. His dissertation is on the History of Yoga in America.