Today April 10, 2009 is the firt day of R Sharath´s Tour.

Will be a long tour for many places : http://www.kpjayi.org/tour.html

Geat opportunity for some of you that say this and that about Sharath and the “new rules´´to spend some time and ask him everything that you want to know
about this topic and the most important listen from himself.

Love this practice and respect Guru Parampara .

barbara:
maybe sharath is being similarly disloyal to authorized teachers who own businesses (shalas) here in the states that have been teaching with jois’ blessing for more than a decade in some cases who have students practicing beyond the primary series.

So thats where they got the idea that it was Pantanjali or Astanga yoga. So Guruji says its Patanjali yoga… but you have to practice it to find out if he tells the truth..;)

If you want to be very near the shala, I can recommend you to go to Jiothy, in the same street (8th Cross), number 228, but I lost their number and mail, so unfortunatly you cannot contact them before.
In January, it must be very crowded, its better that you find accomodation before, but if you don’t its better to have this adress than nothing.

I don’t understand all these arguments against the Jois family, they do what they want in their own shala, nobody’s obliged to practice there and follow their rules if they don’t like it.
There is some teachers I don’t appreciate, so I don’t go in their shala and that’s all.
As long as you don’t use their name, you are totally free to teach ashtanga without their authorisation, you won’t go to jail or pay a fine for that! And why would you want to use the name or an authorisation from someone you don’t like or don’t trust!?? It’s not logical.

There is 2 options :
1) You agree with Sri K. Pattabhi method and rules, you study with them, you remain loyal to them, and you don’t teach without their authorisation.
2) You don’t agree, it’s you freedom, you don’t waste your time in his shala, you study with someone else, and you don’t need Guruji’s authorisation to teach, but you don’t use his name for your advertisement, and you have the honesty to say that you don’t teach the traditional way, but another way.

There are non-authorised teachers who claim to teach ashtanga the traditional way as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (just because they have practiced 1 or 2 months with him), but its not true, if they were teaching the traditional way, they wouldn’t do it without the blessing of their guru, they wouldn’t use the name of someone they don’t respect.
The practice of Ashtanga is not just about asanas, it’s also about being loyal. I don’t see how someone who is not loyal could teach yoga even if he/she is the more flexible.