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Chakrasana, cakrāsana – the wheel pose
With the Yoga Online Exhibition, I would like to encourage you to explore the question of how the beauty of the human body is created. In order to let the expression of each individual pose have an effect on you with a few thoughts, you will find each photo listed individually here in the Asana Quotes section, together with a short text. The texts are dedicated to different aspects of the deeper meaning of yoga practice. Anyone interested in learning these beautiful postures, should consult a competent yoga teacher to avoid mistakes in practice! cakrāsana Wheel pose with leg variation, the raised leg striving upwards with great ease Swami Vishnudevananda…
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Heinz Grill and the artistic way of yoga
A short biography of the author of The Spiritualising of the Body. 1960 – 1985 Heinz Grill as a young mountain climber Heinz Grill was born in 1960 near the Bavarian town of Wasserburg am Inn. He tells that he was a very nature-loving child. His mother had also promoted this by leading her children – three in number – to beautiful places in nature. His parents liked to go to the mountains. From the age of twelve, they took him to the Bavarian Alps. There he discovered his passion for the mountains and especially for rock climbing. Bert Lindauer of the local mountain club was his teacher not only…
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Swami Vishnudevananda and the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers
A Short Presentation of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers founded by Swami Vishnudevananda (1927-1993). 1957 – Swami Vishnudevananda comes to the West The book Yoga was first published from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Canada in 1983. Unfortunately, the book does not reveal who the people depicted with Yoga-āsana are. Here I would like to briefly introduce the work of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers that nowadays are distributed all over the world. The first such center was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda in 1959 in Montreal, Canada. Vishnudevananda had lived, learned and worked with Swami Sivananda Saraswati for 10 years. In 1957 he was sent by his teacher to…
