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本帖最后由 annahw 于 5-9-2018 16:02 编辑
昨天确实串楼，今天把隔壁楼上的放回来。关于guru的生平简介
Early years
On December 14, 1918, near Bangalore, the eleventh child of Sri Krishnamachar and his wife Sheshamma was born, named Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar. A weak and sickly baby, he suffered a litany of diseases as a child: by thirteen he had been sick with malaria, tuberculosis, and typhoid. Iyengar described his physique as “sickly with thin arms and legs, a protruding stomach, and a heavy head. My appearance was not prepossessing.”
Iyengar’s father, a headmaster, died when the boy was just nine years old, leaving the family to bear financial hardship. The young Iyengar was sent to live with his brother in Bangalore. Here, his frail
health was exacerbated by poverty and malnutrition and, as a result, his attendance at school was poor.
The path to yoga
Iyengar¡‘s future as a great teacher of yoga was inadvertently secured when his sister, Namagiri, married Professor Tirumalai Krishnamarcharya, a well-known yogi. Krishnamarcharya was a gifted
man with a great prowess for advanced yoga postures. In the summer of 1934, Iyengar was invited to stay with his sister and Krishnamarcharya to continue his studies and learn the yoga asanas.
Krishnamarcharya ran a yoga school at the Jaganmohan palace of his patron, the Maharaja of Mysore. Here, Iyengar received basic instruction in yoga “asanas,” or poses. However, years of incapacity
had taken their toll and at first he struggled, finding the asanas difficult and painful. He recalls that “sometimes the body and at other times the mind refused to cooperate.” His guru, however, was a strict
disciplinarian who drove him hard. This, together with Iyengar’s determination to progress, meant that gradually he mastered some of the postures. He was further motivated as his health steadily improved.
The Maharaja of Mysore often requested demonstrations at the yoga school. One time, Iyengar was the only pupil available to demonstrate the more advanced asanas. He practiced diligently and surprised Krishnamarcharya by performing exceptionally well. Iyengar continued to make rapid progress and began to accompany Krishnamarcharya on yoga demonstrations around the country.
The Maharaja of Mysore often requested demonstrations at the yoga school. One time,Iyengar was the only pupil available to demonstrate the more advanced asanas. He practiced diligently and surprised Krishnamarcharya by performing exceptionally well. Iyengar continued to make rapid progress and began to accompany Krishnamarcharya on yoga demonstrations around the country.
The emergence of a yoga teacher
At the age of eighteen, Krishnamarcharya asked Iyengar to teach at the Deccan Gymkhana Club in Pune in Maharashtra. This was an isolating period for Iyengar since he had no knowledge of the local
language, Marathi, or the culture, and no family nearby. Moreover, many of the people he taught were more accomplished than him at the asanas. Iyengar also struggled because, although his
teacher had been strict, he had never thoroughly explained the techniques for the asanas. Iyengar resolved to practice diligently to acquire an in-depth knowledge of each asana, observing the intricacies
of the movement of each part of the body. The precision he developed was reflected in his teaching, and his students grew in number. He was now also conversant in Marathi and English, as well as
Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada, enabling him to communicate with his students. As Iyengar’s reputation grew, people of all ages and abilities sought instruction from him, including many with ailments. Yoga had helped to improve his health, so Iyengar was unwilling to turn anyone away. Instead he used his in-depth knowledge of the human body to modify and adapt the poses, making yoga accessible to all. He developed the use of props such as ropes, belts, wooden blocks, and bolsters to help the elderly, weak, and inflexible experience the therapeutic effects of yoga. The innovative system of Iyengar yoga was beginning to take shape. |
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发表于 4-9-2018 12:35:20
发表于 4-9-2018 22:58:21
发表于 5-9-2018 09:14:28
，跟中国传统食物的认识相似，现代认识大概就是消化能力的区别，蛋白质类能量密集。
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