Ashtanga Yoga: The Essential Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga

364 Pages·2018·11.94 MB·English

by  John Scott

Contents
DEDICATION
OPENING MANTRA
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
THE WAY OF ASHTANGA YOGA
CHAPTER 2
VINYASA
CHAPTER 3
THE PRACTICE SESSION
THE STANDING SEQUENCE
THE SEATED SEQUENCE
THE FINISHING SEQUENCE
CLOSING MANTRA
RESOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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Dedication
To my beloved and revered Guru, Shri K Pattabhi Jois,
who, with the greatest of love and patience, has shown
me the way of yoga, I humbly dedicate this work. It is
with the greatest of respect that I attempt to pass on a
little of his teachings to those students who do not have
the good fortune to study directly under his sensitive and
expert tutelage. It is with love and appreciation that I
bow to his lotus feet.
Opening Mantra
Om
Vande Gurunam charanaravinde
Sandarshita svatmasukavabodhe
Nishreyase jangalikayamane
Samsara halahala mohashantyai
Abahu Purushakaram
Shankhacakrsi dharinam
Sahasra sirasam svetam
Pranamami patanjalim
Om
Om
I pray to the lotus feet of the supreme guru
Who teaches knowledge, awakening the great happiness of the
Self revealed
Who acts like the jungle physician
Able to remove the delusion from the poison of conditioned
existence
To Patanjali, an incarnation of Adisesa, white in colour with a
To Patanjali, an incarnation of Adisesa, white in colour with a
thousand radiant
heads (in his form as the divine serpent, Ananta)
Human in form below the shoulders, holding the sword of
discrimination
A wheel of fire representing transcended time, and the conch
representing
cosmic consciousness
To him I prostrate
Om