This is an ongoing project, my plan being to constantly update the videos presented here with newer, more accurate and hopefully more accomplished presentations of the Sequences and subroutines in Srivatsa Ramaswami's book, as well as adding notes to the individual postures and sequences.
NOTE
This blog has only just gone LIVE and may be suffering teething problems as I attempt to upload the 120 odd videos of sequences and subroutines over the next couple of weeks. Please let me know if you notice any videos that have been attached to the wrong post or anything else that is clearly unintended.
Most of the videos posted right now are early attempts at the sequences and subroutines and wont correspond exactly to the instructions in Ramaswami's book. I'll try to point those cases out in the post and eventually get around to re-filming the clips.
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Vinyasa Krama Asymmetric sequence speeded up x4 Right side only
Vinyasa Krama Asymmetric sequence speeded up x4 Right side only
Wonderful!! So, I have to do all the asanas right side and then all the asanas left, or right and left, asana by asana? If so, how to do the vinyasa or transition between sides? Thank you!
I wouldn't say 'have to', it's a very flexible system but basically yes, asana on the right side first then the the left. Ramaswami taught the asana in sequences of same category asana, so all the seated asana in one sequence, all the Asymmetric in another and so on but in practice you would select the asana you wish to practice that day from the different subroutines/groups of asana (the marichiyasana's would be one group/subroutine in the Asymmetric sequence. The Ashtanga Primary series is just such a selection but mostly fixed.
Ramaswami mentioned that although he doesn't include vinyasa for each asana they (and thus the count) are still always implied and you could, if you wish, introduce a full or half transition between each asana or side. In my own practice, coming from Ashtanga, I used to have a loose but more flexible Ashtanga framework of Sury's, followed by asana from On two feet, triangle, On one leg, Asymmetric, Seated, Supine, Inverted and Lotus sequences. I tended to practice (and still do) groups (subroutines) of asana, first on one side and then switch to the other. So I might do Triyang mukha followed by krauchasana and bharadvajrasana on the right side then the left do a pratkriya (counter posture) or a transition ( for me an ashtanga jump back and through) then do a marichiyasana subroutine on right then left side followed by another transition then Ardha badha padma paschimotanasana and janu sirsasana. Then I'd perhaps do a full vinyasa and then do some Bow sequence subroutines before moving on to some Supine subroutines (shoulderstand vinyasas) and inversion (headstand vinyasas) and a few lotus variations. It's up to you and what you feel is appropriate for your body whether you do more or less transitions (full or half) or include more of the pratkriya/counter-postures Ramaswami includes in the book as options. Hope that helps.
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Wonderful!! So, I have to do all the asanas right side and then all the asanas left, or right and left, asana by asana? If so, how to do the vinyasa or transition between sides?
Thank you!
I wouldn't say 'have to', it's a very flexible system but basically yes, asana on the right side first then the the left. Ramaswami taught the asana in sequences of same category asana, so all the seated asana in one sequence, all the Asymmetric in another and so on but in practice you would select the asana you wish to practice that day from the different subroutines/groups of asana (the marichiyasana's would be one group/subroutine in the Asymmetric sequence. The Ashtanga Primary series is just such a selection but mostly fixed.
Ramaswami mentioned that although he doesn't include vinyasa for each asana they (and thus the count) are still always implied and you could, if you wish, introduce a full or half transition between each asana or side. In my own practice, coming from Ashtanga, I used to have a loose but more flexible Ashtanga framework of Sury's, followed by asana from On two feet, triangle, On one leg, Asymmetric, Seated, Supine, Inverted and Lotus sequences. I tended to practice (and still do) groups (subroutines) of asana, first on one side and then switch to the other. So I might do Triyang mukha followed by krauchasana and bharadvajrasana on the right side then the left do a pratkriya (counter posture) or a transition ( for me an ashtanga jump back and through) then do a marichiyasana subroutine on right then left side followed by another transition then Ardha badha padma paschimotanasana and janu sirsasana. Then I'd perhaps do a full vinyasa and then do some Bow sequence subroutines before moving on to some Supine subroutines (shoulderstand vinyasas) and inversion (headstand vinyasas) and a few lotus variations. It's up to you and what you feel is appropriate for your body whether you do more or less transitions (full or half) or include more of the pratkriya/counter-postures Ramaswami includes in the book as options.
Hope that helps.
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