website of the Ashtanga Yoga Studio Freiburg<\/a> at a price of 25 \u20ac plus 1,90 \u20ac for mailing expenses. The studio is offering a discount – if you buy 5 copies, you save 2 \u20ac per copy and 3 \u20ac per copy if you order 10 copies.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/04.01.-14.04.19.-Surya-A-b.png” title_text=”04.01. 14.04.19. Surya A b” _builder_version=”4.7.2″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.2″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]The 9\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>viny\u0101sa of the first sun salutation\u00a0<\/em>(s\u016brya-namask\u0101ra <\/em>A)<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”12px” custom_margin=”-21px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]Drawings (“yoga glyphs”) with kind permission of John Scott<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.7.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”-113px||||false|false”]
If you are relatively inexperienced\u00a0 in Ashtanga Yoga or came upon this blog by coincidence but are interested to learn more, some additional information:<\/p>\n
What is the \u201evinyasa count\u201c?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u00a0In Sanskrit, viny\u0101sa <\/em>can be translated, for instance, as \u201e<\/span>putting or placing down, movement, position (of limbs), attitude, putting together, connecting (words etc.)\u201d (source: dictionary of Monier Williams).\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0In the Ashtanga Yoga method, viny\u0101sa<\/em> has two meanings:<\/p>\n\n- an \u201eexact position\u201c, including the correct direction of the breathing (in- or exhale) and the gazing point,<\/li>\n
- the transition between two postures (in Ashtanga Yoga, through the viny\u0101sa<\/em> all postures are linked to one another like pearls on a string, in a firmly defined choreography).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0\u201ecount\u201c means exactly that: \u201ecounting\u201c.<\/p>\n
\u00a0During the led classes<\/strong> – if they are taught in the traditional way – the teacher calls the name of the \u0101sana<\/em> and then counts the different viny\u0101sa<\/em> of the postures. For instance, the first sun salutation has 9 viny\u0101sa <\/em>(not counting the starting and the end position samasthiti\u1e25<\/em>) and the second sun salutation 17.<\/p>\nMore inner wisdom<\/h3>\n
Last but not least, regarding the title of the book: Anu\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na<\/em><\/strong>. Sharath uses the word in the sense of \u201epractice\u201c and relates it to Yoga S\u016btra 2.28:<\/p>\n\u00a0\u201eyog\u0101\u1e45g\u0101nu\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101n\u0101<\/strong>d a\u015buddhi-k\u1e63aye j\u00f1\u0101na-d\u012bpt\u012br-\u0101viveka-kh\u0101te\u1e25<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\u201cUpon the destruction of the impurities through the practice of the limbs of yoga the light of knowledge grows to discriminative discernment.\u201d (my translation, words and letters in gray added in the translation for sake of clarity)<\/p>\n
\u00a0M<\/em>ay your practice support you in feeling and intensifying this light of knowledge inside of you more and more.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally, I intended to write this blog only in German, as it is about the translation into German of an Ashtanga book that has already been around for a few years. Why would I write in English about a book in German? Upon second thought, I decided to write about the book anyway, for two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":239198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177,135,239,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews-en","category-ashtanga-vinyasa-yoga-en","category-english-blog-post-en","category-yoga-philosophy-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtanga-yoga-plus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}