Nadh Singh,
In addition to Kundalini Yoga I also practice and teach a Russian method, Vaganova ballet. They combine it with a Stretch class that is closer to Kundalini Yoga than any class (including Yoga classes in the States) that I have ever seen. They use this training on their Olympic athletes: the gymnatsts, skaters, and ballet dancers. They also do cat/cow repeatedly, building the speed. If you think back to the times when the Russians used to sweep the Olympics, (Olga Korbut comes to mind,) American coaches didn't have access to the training and the government support that the athletes in the Eastern Block countries did. My feeling is that these teachers (from the East) have been miles ahead of us for years. Sometimes Westerners think other methods are "unsafe" but if you practice for say 20 or 30 years, you tap into another dimension of healing and results. Nadia was another gymnast who showed this mastery and amazing ability. To experience it, you have to get out of your head, and into your body. It's what artists do.
Satpal Kaur
> Sat Nam dear yogic family,
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> I've recently delved into Yin Yoga since I was interested in how it dealt with the deeper aspects of yoga practice, i.e. affecting the connective tissue of the body instead of hatha yoga's obession with the muscle. As part of my research, I bought Paul Grilley's Yin Yoga DVD and watched the 2-hour course included in the DVD set. Yin Yoga distinguishes itself from other yogas by the fact that it stresses the joints of the body, not the muscle, partially to increase the hyaluronic acid in the synovial fluid present in the joints. As part of his course, Grilley mentions that when we create a rhythm and a repetition to an exercise that focuses on the joints, we will undoubtedly get hurt. When he said that, I immediately thought about "Cat Cow" in Kundalini Yoga, where we flex the spine up and down and our head goes up and down in the opposite direction. Does this mean that Kundalini Yoga is in opposition to Yin Yoga? It just sounds like when we do "Cat Cow" for 5 minutes or so that we're undoubtedly causing injury to ourselves, since it works on the joints of our spine in a repeated, rhythmic fashion?
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> Thank you,
>
> Nadh Singh
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