The Ocean Fell into the Drop by Terence Stamp

Author:Terence Stamp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Ocean Fell Into the Drop
ISBN: 9781910924549
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2017-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

Out of work in Ibiza

Amazing what these early breath specialists worked out years ago. I knew it brought added awareness to my breath exercises yet didn’t know the half of it. Yet it renewed my memories of a conversation I’d had, at the end of one of my early instruction sessions with Vanda. I had asked her how she had become involved with the practice of yoga, which she obviously appreciated. She explained that Krishnamurti, on returning from one of his many visits to the place of his birth, where he had set up several educational centres for children, had begun to notice that many of his contemporaries, the ones who appeared to be ageing gracefully in good health, invariably studied the ancient art of yoga and its complementary adjunct, pranayama, the complete practice of breath. He asked her, if he found a respected yoga teacher who would be prepared to come to Europe regularly to impart the knowledge, would it interest her to learn it with him. She was intrigued and delighted, and Krishnamurti set about locating the best exponent. She wasn’t curious as to how it had come into being or why it worked so well. It just did, and that was sufficient for her. I followed her lead. However, during my lengthy sojourns in India, the discovery and provenance of the art aroused my own curiosity and I proceeded to find out for myself.

Most of the deep sources of yoga, and the mind-body wisdom they contain, differ dramatically from what is often taught as yoga in present day fitness outlets. Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) is considered that father of modern yoga. Most of the yoga one finds today at yoga studios taught here in the West comes via folks who studied with him, although he never left India. In his youth, and an early ‘seeker’, he heard of a sage who had left the busy stratum of city life and in his own voyage of self-discovery had retired to a cave in the Himalayas where he would be less distracted by the outside ‘images’ of the world and be able to come upon the ‘aloneness’ of pure wisdom, always present when the mind is at peace, yet fully aware. He located the man who was to teach him yoga; during the seven years he studied with him, it was only when he was advised to return to his everyday life that he made the promise to the guru he would carry on teaching the yoga he had discovered. He didn’t have immediate impact and it was only when the Maharaja of Mysore took an interest in Kirshnamacharya and had him teach at his palace that his practice of emphasis on yoga for the individual was to become known as a requirement for the therapy of our age. His son TKV Desikachar maintained his lineage. And it was to Desikachar that Krishnamurti became a student.

When I moved into the set of chambers in St James, I marked the occasion

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