jaya chakravarty, Author at The Practice Room

17 Oct

Is our Yoga Physical?” – a thought experiment in Socratic style of dialectics

August 23, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

speaker 1: Your yoga is physical. my yoga is spiritual. (Dialectic or Dialectics is a method of argument for resolving disagreement ...

01 Oct

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POSH at the Practice Room – a story of survival through misdirected accusations

May 1, 2021
By jaya chakravarty

Initially published November 2018. Edited March 2021 I reserve the right to continue editing this post as I wade through my persona...

07 May

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The Making of a Yoga Studio – Part 2 of 2: the Iyengar Yoga Studio Essentials

September 25, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

The Making of a Yoga Studio Part 2: The Essentials of an Iyengar Yoga Studio (This is the second blog in the two-part seri...

18 Apr

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The Making of a Yoga Studio: Part 1 of 2- The Location

August 23, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

Visualise your ideal place of yoga – pick out a few words from the advertisements of one of the many exotic yoga retreats around the wo...

17 Jan

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Impressions from the Bellur Workshop with Manouso Manos, december 2016

August 13, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

We are old-fashioned single-teacher students. The few yoga workshops we have attended so far have happened by coincidence and not by d...

04 Jan

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yoganusasanam 2016 – student impressions

August 13, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

(After two years of writing yoganusasanam summaries, it gives us immense joy to publish these accounts written by the practice room stu...

05 Mar

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Rekha’s first yoga class

August 23, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

(my dear sis-in law's experience of her first yoga class (sent to me from melbourne, australia on mar 12 2013 posted with no malice...

12 Feb

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the yoganusasanam 2015 summary by parizad

August 23, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

“I am not in my father’s shadow, I am in my father’s light.” This begins the yoganusasanam 2015 summary written by Parizad...

23 Dec

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Yoganusasanam 2015 – Study Notes

August 23, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

day 1 - the indents in the buttocks December 08, 2015 (considering that jāty-antara-pariṇāmaḥ prakṛty-āpūrāt ...

20 Dec

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Yoganusthana: On Pranayama: Study Notes

August 23, 2020
By jaya chakravarty

day 0 8 dec 2013, 1 hour orientation lecture after some uncertainty, i am in geetaji's pranayama...