If you were in most parts of the world 100 years ago, it would have been a month of research, organisation, and travel to be told about Adho Mukha Savasana.
50 years ago, it would have been much easier with a journey to a major town or city centre.
Now every town or city has a brand of yoga for you to pit yourself against.
And once you have experienced a quality Yoga teacher that implements the principles of asana Yoga as passed down by Tirumalai Krishnamacharya then you are on your own path of appreciation, once acceptance of what is given is accepted, so there is no search for something that is missing because there is nothing missing.
It is all given and you are the power of the cosmos. The movement of the body is the movement of the breath.
And then when we roll the mat out by ourselves, the real Yoga begins, the merging of opposites, from above to below, receptivity and strength.
We didn’t need to change the Yoga principle and when we did move away from those very important points, we lost a lot of the essence and power of connection to breath, body, mind and movement. And went on to the endless search for the greatest asana rather than accepting it for what it is.
For me sometimes, my practice is like a big generator. And as for perfect asana, how can you find something if you are always looking for it?
We didn’t have to go to the Himalayas to create those principles, but those principles are available to us and when we implement and personalise an asaana practice that Yoga, and it is available to us with or without our mat.
