The Origin of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

Posted on Apr 19, 2012 in ARTICLES, Yoga

IMG 6720 300x225 The Origin of Ashtanga Vinyasa YogaAs the story goes, the Ashtanga yoga system was reconstructed from a mysterious manuscript written on a bundle of palm leaves `The yoga Korunta`. This collection of verses on hatha yoga was discovered in the 1930 by yoga master and Sanskrit scholar Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and his disciple K.Pattabhi Jois while researching Sanskrit texts at a Calcutta university library. The manuscript is dated to be between 500 and 1500 years old.

 

Krishnamacharya and Jois translated and reconstructed the ashtanga yoga series (origınally there were six sequences of postures) and Pattabhi Jois, with encouragement of Krishnamacharya, took the instruction as the basis of his practice and teaching.

 

Ashtanga taught by Pattabhi jois is a form of hatha yoga which focuses on asana (posture) and pranayama(breath control). Some people call this Ashtanga vinyasa yoga in order to distinguish between eightfold system and the ashtanga yoga Which people practicing today.

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