August 23, 2006 at 10:10 am
· Filed under World Tour 2006
Alert reader, t-om, commented that Kristian Salo of Helsinki, Finland has published photos from the Helsinki stop of the Ashtanga World Tour, which takes place August 20-31.
Thank you, t-om, for the tip! Thank you, Kristian, for sharing your photos.
Look at all those people!
The photos published so far seem to be from a performance for and conference with Sri K. Pattabhis Jois, Saraswati and Sharath.
Saraswati looking extra luminous
Maybe Kristian will publish more photos as the days progress, though it appears that many photographers are present.
Pattabhis Jois
R. Sharath
A rapt audience for Sri K. Pattabhis Jois, Sharath and Saraswati
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August 23, 2006 at 12:53 am
· Filed under Moon Days, World Tour 2006
The Magic Elixir
Sharath’s been wearing one of the London tour shirts. The ones that feature Guruji on a bottle. Ashtanga – the magic elixir.
But the hangover is a bitch.
Side Effects may include: emotional breakdown, extreme fatigue, a feeling of personal growth that makes you wonder where you’re growing as you assess the damages and potential damages, an intense desire to give up your day job, a magnetic pull that seems to be originating from somewhere in Southern India, feelings of contentment, acceptance, and perhaps exhaustion that make you act a bit stoned most of the time, a desire to give up anything that doesn’t seem to compliment your yoga practice, an inability to relate to those who don’t do yoga, chocolate cravings, excessive coffee consumption, and pain.
Rest up so you can drink up again tomorrow. But be sure to avoid heavy machinery.
[Note from Editors: In honor of Moon Day and the Europe leg of the Ashtanga World Tour, we're publishing KJS' creative post on Moon Day, which we - in a fit of silly-we-simply-don't-know-what-came-over-us-ness didn't publish during the 2006 World Tour in New York. Thank you, KJS! And, Happy Moon Day! Is it okay to say that?
How do you all feel about Moon Days? - Tracy]
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t-om said,
August 30, 2006 at 6:18 am
Pictures from another conference [0] held yesterday.
[0] http://www.badloop.com/reewna/290806/
t-om said,
August 30, 2006 at 6:21 am
Those photos were apparently taken by zanir (a nickname on a finnish yoga forum [0]).
[0] http://jooga.meditaatio.fi/viewtopic.php?p=6276#6276
tracy said,
August 30, 2006 at 12:15 pm
t-om,
You are really on top of these photo releases. Thank you!
t-om said,
August 31, 2006 at 9:17 am
No problem:) A video [0] is now available from one of the commercial broadcasting companies in Finland. It is part of the morning news program, featuring Juha Javanainen talking and even Pattabhi while teaching. Pattabhi wears a shirt with text “Suomi” in it, it means Finland in finnish.
[0] http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/nettitv_uutiset/index.shtml/nettitv_uutiset/ajankohtaisohjelmat/huomentasuomi
- register below the “videoscreen”, clicking “Rekisteröidy” in the “Kirjaudu
Netti-tv:seen” box
- scroll down and click “30.08.2006 Jooga antaa mielenrauhaa”
t-om said,
September 1, 2006 at 7:24 am
Wow, the video works without registration. But it will be taken off after some days (available 7 days).
tracy said,
September 14, 2006 at 10:02 am
Two short videos of conferences with Guruji in Helsinki have surfaced on YouTube. Here are the links:
Guruji speaking (1:31):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcX2oLu2qKg
and
Thank you, Guruji (0:44):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChQt9BLMpX4
Thank you to YouTube user, Kiroti!
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kiroti