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Vanda Scaravelli was an unusually inspired
and inspiring woman who came to yoga relatively late in life, but
through her own explorations realised something so simple that it
is almost impossible to grasp - the force of gravity is the very
thing that supports us upright, and that if are balanced, the wave
of the exhale elongates the spine.
So is that Scaravelli yoga? Vanda would have
been horrified to hear of such a thing, because to turn it into
a method is to miss the point entirely.
a little about Vanda
Vanda was taught
directly by Sri B.K.S. Iyengar (Iyengar yoga) for very many
years, and later on she also took to heart the teachings of T.K.V.
Desikachar (Vini yoga), as well as being a friend of and receiving
spiritual advice from Sri J. Krishnamurti. These truly respected
teachers, as well as the great Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (proponent
of Ashtanga Vinyasa), had all themselves been instructed in the ways
of yoga by Desikachar’s father and guru, Sri T. Krishnamacharya.
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