VINYASA KRAMA YOGA, sequences and subroutines.

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.


Free Downloads

NOTE 06/10/2016: The translation of Krishnamacharya's second book Yogasanagalu (Mysore 1941 - 3rd edition with additional chapter 1972) is now complete and can be downloaded for personal study from here.

Note: It can take a few minutes to download, I had a back screen on my ipad for three minutes before I could save it to ibooks. If you do have trouble downloading try perhaps a different browser.

First draft available for free download for personal study from here
http://tinyurl.com/z9jy7cp
My sincerest gratitude to Satya for doing all the hard work of translating, to Sraddha for sending me the original text back in 2010 and to Quique for formatting the asana table.

"The Maharaja of our Karnataka state, his highness Sri Krishna Rajendra, an enthusiastic yoga advocate having practiced this Patanjala ashtanga yoga for many years under his guru (Krishnamacharya) and now wishing that his subjects also benefit from this practice has generously... ordered the publication and PROPAGATION (my capitals) of “Yogamakaranda”, “Yogasanagalu” and “Yoganjali” volumes in Kannada." from the introduction Yogasanagalu.

 My understanding that just as with Yoga Makaranda, Yogasanagalu was distributed to schools.



other resources



Krishnamacharya's Yoga Makaranada Part II


Original Kanada edition of Yogasanagalu below




My own books



Free Download 
re the photos from Yoga Makaranda

T.K.V. Desikachara - KYM Darsinam 1993

"T. Krishnamacharya returned to Mysore, permanently, in 1924 after finishing his
studies in the'North. During this time he had also spent seven and a half years
in Tibet by the Manasarovar, where he underwent yoga sadhana under the guru
Rama Mohana Brahmachri. The then Maharaja of Mysore Nalvadi Krishnaraja Odayar,
who was seriously ill, requested T. Krishnamacharya to treat him. Through
yoga, proper diet and herbs the king recovered and became very healthy. He was so 
impressed, he asked T. Krishnamacharya to teach every member of the palace. He
also offered a place in the Jagan Mohan Palace so that the public could benefit from
his knowledge of yoga. As there were, then, no books on yoga, the king requested
his teacher to write a series of books on the subject. According to my mother, the
first book, 'Yoga Makaranda' was completed in seven days with my father working
on it day and night. The king arranged for the photographs and the book was printed
by the palace in 1934 and distributed free of cost. Soon it was translated to Tamil
and some North Indian Languages".

"The owner of the copyright in the photograph is the photographer – the person who creates it,[15]"

Note: If copyright exists for the photographs of Yoga Makaranda, they remain with the photographer or the photographer's family (even though the photos were arranged for by the Maharaja) unless the photographer signed rights over to the palace publishers. Copyright does not belong to the Krishnamacharya family. However much a photograph may be processed copyright remains with the original photographer.

If the original photographer of the the Yoga Makaranda photos, or the family member to whom copyright was transferred were ever to come forward and claim copyright and request me to remove photos I have shared on this blog and elsewhere I would happily do so.





UPDATE

In my two recent posts


and 


I added a number of links to some free downloads



A free pdf version of Hatha Yoga Pradipka HERE

A free pdf version of Gheranda Samhita HERE




Sutra Samhita

Aparokahanubhuti (self realization by Adi Sankara)

Yoga Sutras
Also Swamiji's online edition, an excellent resource HERE

Yogapanishad
see below

Thirty Minor Upanishads

tr. by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar

[1914]


Title Page


below a link to the respected Annie Besant edition


1. Main texts by Krishnamacharya



Yoga Makaranda (Mysore 1934)pdf

Selections from chapter 1

Selections from chapter 2

Selections from chapter 3

Selections from chapter 4 



2. Complete list of Books/texts by T. Krishnamacharya:
from http://krishnamacharya.net/works
unfortunately most of the articles mentioned have not been released


Yoga Makaranda (Mysore 1934)pdf
Yogavalli

Other works (essays and poetic compositions):
“Disciplines of Yoga”
“Effect of Yoga Practice”
“Importance of Food and Yoga in Maintaining Health”
“Verses on Methods of Yoga Practice”
“Essay on Asana and Pranayama”
“Madhumeha (Diabetes)”
“Why Yoga as a Therapy Is Not Rising”
“Bhagavad Gita as a Health Science”
“Ayurveda and Yoga: An Introduction”
“Questions and Answers on Yoga” (with students in July 1973)
“Yoga: The Best Way to Remove Laziness”
“Dhyana (Meditation) in Verses”
“What Is a Sutra?”
“Kundalini: Essay on What Kundalini Is and Kundalini Arousal (sakti calana) Based on Texts Like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita, and Yoga Yajnavalkya”
“Extracts from Raja Yoga Ratnakara”
“Need for a Teacher”
“Satvika Marga” (“The Sattvic Way”; philosophy/spiritual/yoga)
“Reference in Vedas to Support Vedic Chanting for Women” (philosophy/technical)
“Fourteen Important Dharmas” (philosophy)
“Cit Acit Tatva Mimamsa” (philosophy)
“Sandhya-saaram” (ritual)
“Catushloki” (four verses on Sankaracharya)
“Kumbhakonam Address” (catalog)
“Sixteen Samskaras” (rituals)
“Mantra Padartha Tatva Nirnaya” (rituals)
“Ahnika Bhaskaram” (rituals)
“Shastreeya Yajnam” (rituals)
“Vivaaha” (marriage rituals)
“Asparsha Pariharam” (rituals)
“Videsavaasi Upakarma Nirnaya” (rituals)
“Sudarshana Dundubhi” (devotional)
“Bhagavat Prasadam” (devotional)
“Narayana Paratva” (devotional)
“About Madras” (miscellaneous)





3. Bibliography from from Yogasanagaly 
T. Krishnamacharya (Mysore 1941)


I did not attempt a detailed review of all ancient yoga treatises since it will make this book very long and perhaps cause boredom to the readers.  Please forgive.  This writing is mainly based on the following texts:

Yogakuranti (Yoga Korunta- lost?).

Learning’s from my Guru and self-experience


4. Bibliography from from Yoga Makaranda 
T. Krishnamacharya (Mysore 1934)



"This text contains the essential concepts from many texts of antiquity listed below.
I have studied the texts listed below under the blessing of a great teacher and have explained the truths contained in them that I have personally experienced. I request that the Lord of the auspicious Karnataka throne, the great Lord and Emperor, the fourth Sri Krishna Rajendra, accept this work and allow my
humble self to fulfil my endeavor and bless me.
More than this, I have nothing to say in this preface.


Bibliography
1. Rajayoga Ratnakaram pdf (in Telugu)
4. Yoga Balaprathipikai (?)
5. Ravana Nadi  (Article)
6. Bhairava Kalpam pdf
8. Yoga Ratnakarandam (?)
11. Brahmayameelam Pdf
12. Atharvana Rahasyam (?)
16. Gheranda Samhita pdf
19. Siva Samhita pdf
22. Yoga Shika Upanishad
27. Garbha Upanishad pdf


5. A course of study with Krishnamacharya


from My studies with Krishnamacharya - Srivatsa Ramaswami (Namarupa article)

Ramaswami studied with Krishnamacharya for over thirty years, in this article he relates his studies of asana, chanting as well as some of the many he texts he studied with his teacher


"Normally, I had two to three sessions per week, but there were occasions when I had the privilege of going to him twice a day, for ásana practice in the morning and for chanting or the study of texts in the evening". 

Some texts Ramaswami studied with Krishnamacharya

Sad-Vidyá (?)Chándogya Upanishad pdf

The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (Online ) was the centrepiece of our yoga studies.
(Note:I recommend the Bryant and/or Aranya editions)

Another philosophy he was keen to teach was Nyáya and the later version, Tarka. He started teaching..

TarkaSamgraha, pdf a compact text on Vedic logic.

Hathayogapradipika pdf in detail, except portions of the last chapter and some of the third, which he said contained obnoxious practices inconsistent with the teachings of sáttvika yoga and the Yoga Sâtras.

Yogayajnavalkyam pdf in detail.

Some of the other texts that he referred to and taught in portions included
Yoga Rahasya (Amazon) was not published, but he frequently quoted from the text and after a while taught a few chapters from it.

Ramaswami also mentions elsewhere that Krishnamacharya would teach the Ramayana extensively.

APPENDIX

My Krishnamacharya's Original Ashtanga Yoga Book is based on the tamil edition translation Yoga Makaranda by Sri T. Krishnamacharya (Written in Kannada)




Tamil Translation by Sri C.M.V. Krishnamacharya (with the assistance of Sri S. Ranganathadesikacharya)
Kannada Edition 1934 Madurai C.M.V. Press Tamil Edition

Given the respect and gratitude I feel for integrity of the original translators of Yoga Makaranda, should they make the request, I would be more than happy to remove the print edition if they were to feel it is not beneficial, as well as discuss removing the free pdf edition.

It is not related to the more recent publication See Letter.
The book is an attempt to make Krishnamacharya's approach to asana presented in the book more accessible (especially to the Jois Ashtanga Vinyasa community) but NEVER  intended as a substitute for the original.

My book continues to be available, free (always) to download, at my Free Downloads page (link below). As is the original along with Yoga Makaranda part II, our translation of Krishnamacharya's yogasanagalu, my earlier Vinyasa krama book and other resources.

Free Downloads
http://grimmly2007.blogspot.jp/p/free-downloads.html

From first publishing the print edition I have included a 50% price reduction to bring the book virtually down to cost price, it's made available for those who still prefer books in Print.

Amazon do not allow me to discount the book and some buy the text from Lulu at the reduced price and sell it at the list price or higher via ebay. When kindly sharing links to the book may i request that you remind readers that it is half the price from  LuLu and always free to download from my blog.


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