12 posts tagged “pictures”
Read about Swami Vivekananda’s visit to the World of Congress in 1893. Check out the rest of SwamiJ.com for some serious reading about yoga.
Swami Vivekananda, originally uploaded on Flickr by Chetan Hegde M.
This picture has nothing to do with yoga, but I thought it was funny. Well, it might be helpful for your yoga practice if you’re into Laughing Yoga.
Check out some of the great photos and commentary of modern-day yoga luminaries in a recent issue of Vanity Fair. Here are a couple of my favorites:
I’ve recently been reading It’s a Long Way to the Floor by David Byck (check out his website!) and couldn’t help but think that he and my favorite Chinese History professor in college may have been separated at birth. While the book has been a decent read so far, I’ve been incessantly perplexed by the possibility that he has a long-lost twin that he doesn’t know about. It just makes me laugh how similar their pictures are. Anyhow, expect a review of David’s book in the near future. Later!
908 Poses by Dharma Mittra
It’s a quick post today, but if you’re looking for some new yoga websites to check out, Slade’s Ashtanga Yoga Links has links to hundreds of sites to browse through. There’s also a nice compilation of ashtanga yoga books and ashtanga yoga videos if you’re looking for some new inspiration.
[Photo originally uploaded on Flickr by Yadupati]
Have you ever wanted to create your own visual representation to follow for your yoga practice? Well, Yogafont makes it pretty easy by letting you use your word processor to create your own asana sequence. Yogafont has 98 graphic images of common yoga poses to choose from. All you have to do is download the font and you’re ready to use your keyboard to get started. The Yogafont website provides details on what keys to type for each asana. For the most part, the asanas are grouped into various categories, and each category is assigned to a row of keys as far as possible. The great part about Yogafont is that it is free! So, go ahead, download the font and have some fun.
Here are a couple of demonstration pages from the Yogafont website to give you an idea of what you might be able to do. Click on the links to see the full size pdf file.
While books on yoga asanas are a great resource to consult when learning the fundamentals of a new asana, the continuity and visual effect of a poster can be a great aid in maintaining the harmony of one’s practice. Most would agree, it can be a bit disruptive to one’s flow to have to turn the page in a book or magazine to move between asanas. True, many yoga books do contain pages, usually at the back, where a particular series or practice is visually highlighted in detail, but why not add a little spice to your life and put up a poster where you do your home practice.
While there are a ton of posters out there, here are a few bite-sized posters of various asana series from a few different yoga traditions.
84 Classic Asanas (Bikram Tradition)
Dharma Mittra’s Beginner/Intermediate Course Chart
This beautiful poster has a variety of photographs of the “OM” symbol found all over India. The text on the poster reads:
The sacred symbol OM is found throughout India not only in temples, but also on walls, trucks and doors reminding those who see it all is One Consciousness.
Om is the eternal Existence, Consciousness and Bliss. This entire universe, including our body, mind and senses, is its manifestation, extension and expansion. Past, present and future all are nothing but OM. This was true in the past, it is true in the present and will be true in the future. And whatever else exists beyond the three divisions of time, that also is indeed OM. What is the essence of OM? It is the eternal vibration of awareness.
