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bentyogi	Why go to KPJAYI?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 28 (07/01/09 17:17:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I read somewhere on here about someone going to mysore and practising at the shala for 3 months and only got 5 adjustments. Can someone please explain to me what is the point of going to study and practice with someone when you hardly get adjusted or spoken to? You seem to get much better attention at your own local studio where you live. mind you, I've never beent to mysore but would like to for the experience it (so maybe that's why people go), but why do people go regularly? Surely not for their practise when you can get far more attention elsewhere. Also they are many wonderful teachers that have been practising longer than sharath. So why go there?? Also, why do they charge through the roof?? How do they justify it?? I'm curious as to why people go
shyates		#1	[-]
Posts: 8 (07/02/09 03:18:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	sometimes you have to travel to find yourself? my practice deepened more at the AYRI (and the time after returning home) than it had over the previous 2 years practicing on my own with/without a teacher. you don't need 'attention' from an adjuster if you have learned to be 'attentive' to yourself/your practice, which i think is one of the many benefits/results of practicing in mysore at the AYRI. and they don't charge through the roof, i think the price is very fair for what you receive. i think the cost keeps students who attend serious and focused on the purpose of their visit. s
bentyogi		#2	[-]
Posts: 29 (07/02/09 15:19:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	They don't charge through the roof? You could spend a whole month with Dena and Jack for less than A$200 (many adjustments and personal attention) compared to one month at over A$500 with no personal tuition. Hmmm seems just. Now that Jois has passed over Sharath has some interesting times ahead. Of course you don't need attention from an adjuster to be attentive to your own practice, but when spending money you'd think you would get something back aside from something anyone can learn on your own like being attentive. Seems there's more just for the expereince of mysore than to progress in your practice.
Lavazza64		#3	[-]
Posts: 202 (07/03/09 01:15:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I do not think I will ever go to Mysore. I prefer to revisit teachers with whom I already have a relation and who know where I am coming from and my practice.
tat tvam amasi		#4	[-]
Posts: 2180 (07/03/09 06:46:42) Forearm Modulator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Read this. doug
YogaVane		#5	[-]
Posts: 951 (07/03/09 10:15:06) Lady Governess Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Why go to Mysore? Because it's magical.
yogithomas		#6	[-]
Posts: 17 (07/03/09 14:40:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If you need adjustments Sharath will give them to you. He will be there every day with you despite him having 60 other students to assist. If you respect Guruji's place in the Ashtanga yoga system then surely you have to respect Sharaths… he is Guruji's grandson and the only person to have lived with him and had one-to-one practice with him followed by assisting all his teachings every day year after year after year. Many of Guruji and Sharath's students charge 5 times what they do. I personally think Sharath should be the most expensive. It wouldn't seem right if western students went to Mysore paid a few rupees for their teachings, got authorized and then went home charging hundreds or pounds for weekend workshops. In Mysore you are paying for the full package. The experience or working with Sharath and also the chance to work towards authorization and certification. It is the energy that draws me there. Guruji's shala's energy, Sharath's energy, Mysore's energy and equally the energy of the hundreds of other completely devoted students. The friends you find.
lucy2006	why go to mysore?	#7	[-]
Posts: 6 (07/05/09 05:25:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	well why not at least try it? I agree, though, it is magical. And just as an aside from dena and Jack's website it seems they are $400 a month, not $200. So really at least for the second and third month practice in mysore is not that much more expensive. Dena and Jack will be teaching early morning Mysore style over these dates. 7.00 am Sunday - 6.30 Monday - Friday with moon days off bookings required cost: classes with Dena and Jack $100 per week.
Fritzka		#8	[-]
Posts: 27 (09/02/09 12:49:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Why would you go indeed, now that the source is no longer there? Sharath is a wonderful teacher, but not a guru. There is a difference, and parapara (lineage) is not necessarily hereditary. Find the ashtanga teacher who most exemplifies the qualites you would like to manifest in yourself, and study with them.
YogaVane		#9	[-]
Posts: 973 (09/03/09 10:19:02) Lady Governess Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Guru is as student follows. Guruji wasn't a guru to all Ashtanga students that went to Mysore and yet, studying with him there was a wonderful experience for most of them. Nothing stops anyone from following Sharath as their guru and in my opinion, they could do much worse.
Unbearablelightness		#10	[-]
Posts: 23 (09/07/09 07:18:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You probably won't get daily adjustments, and you're not going to be hanging out with Sharath every afternoon, but there is something to be said for just being there. How often can you remove yourself from daily distractions, do your practice, and just enjoy yourself? It's a great environment if you want to immerse yourself in study. Get ayurvedic treatments, take Sanskrit classes, eat yummy food, take naps, read the Gita all afternoon. Sharath is a great teacher, and he is working his tail off every day, from early, until his students finish, then again in the afternoon with local students. Yes, he charges through the roof. Is it too much? It wasn't for me at that specific time. I'm not quite sure how I feel about the rates, but I don't want that to ruin my perception of the experience thinking about it now. Saraswati's prices are pretty resonable. If I go back, I will probably study with her. The shala is magical. To be in a room, practicing with that many committed practitioners, is just amazing. I will never be an authorized teacher, but I would go every year just for the experience if time and money permitted.
spangled		#11	[-]
Posts: 3484 (09/08/09 00:22:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You have to be a little careful with the word "guru". I wonder if Sharath would describe himself as such. Or even SKPJ if he were still alive. In a sense all our teachers are gurus, as for most of us our parents were at some point. But guru in the sense of self realisation is quite specific.
Lavazza64		#12	[-]
Posts: 217 (09/08/09 00:53:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	spangled wrote: You have to be a little careful with the word "guru". I wonder if Sharath would describe himself as such. Or even SKPJ if he were still alive. In a sense all our teachers are gurus, as for most of us our parents were at some point. But guru in the sense of self realisation is quite specific. At the KPJAYI website he is called "Guruji". But I cannot say if it is the KPJAYI attitude that he is a guru. ;-) My teacher is called "family name-ji" by many students and by "his" organisation. I will try to see if I can find my notes on his description of the 3 types of teachers.
YogaVane		#13	[-]
Posts: 981 (09/08/09 11:33:02) Lady Governess Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't think Guruji was a guru to everyone that ever went to the shala, but I'd venture he was a guru for some. In the same way, I don't see why Sharath could not be a guru to some. Then again, I'm going at this from a very basic understanding that guru is "the bringer of the light". Is my teacher my guru? He certainly is, but not just because he tirelessly adjusted me in Supta Kurmasana for more than I care to remember.
Iraputra	tava guravaH ke? [Who are your teachers?]	#14	[-]
Posts: 8 (09/08/09 12:17:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	There seem to be many words for 'teacher' in Sanskrit. Here are some that may apply: adhyaapaka (masc.), adhyaapikaa (fem.) : [school?] teacher - [adhii/adhyayanam = study ; adhyapayati = teach] zikSaka (m), zikSikaa (f) : [school?] teacher upaadhyaayaa (f), upaadhyaaya (m) : teacher paaThaka (m) : teacher paNDita (m) : teacher, scholar [of Sanskrit and Hindu law, religion, music or philosophy..] guru (m) : teacher, elder, guardian [important, heavy] upaguru (m) : assistant teacher satguru : true teacher aacaarya [acharya] (m) : [religious] teacher RiShi (m), RiShika (f) : sage, seer, singer of ancient [Vedic] hymns; mythical saints; conduits of the gods/Brahman svaamii/svaamin : owner/lord/master [of oneSelf, implying learning and mastery of yoga] [shishya/brahmacārin = disciple/student] And then there is of course the inner Guru...
Lavazza64	3 types of teachers	#15	[-]
Posts: 219 (09/11/09 00:14:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The lowest is the teacher who just satisfies the student's curiousity, without having any knowledge. The middle is the teacher who has studied and who has some knowledge. The highest is the teacher of teachers, who has direct cognition and who can help the student to transform.
hogaboga	Why go mysore?	#16	[-]
Posts: 8 (10/04/09 09:14:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Because you also meet beautifull so called yogis from all over the world.TO know the body you can practice whereever you are.To know the soul you have to go to the original source.For eg Tai-chi to china,Karate to japan,Thi massage to Thailand and yoga to india. Otheriwise meeting beautifull yogis is also fun

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