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More from Erica at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram

Continuing our series of posts of reports from yogis on their pilgrimages to India, here is another report from Erica, in a moment of reflection during her course at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, India.


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Erica at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM)

Erica reports on her 2 week workshop, The Power of Yoga, at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram

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Mysore in the Year 2020

This report from India is by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, two of my favourite science fiction writers. Their book Saturn's Race, set in the year 2020, includes a visit to Mysore with a Dr. Jois, a "small, limber, dark man," and describes an Ashtanga class taken there:

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Gayatri Mantra (report from Daphnée)

Daphné St-Pierre, a Montreal yoga teacher, is in India for a year of study and seva. Here she writes about the Gayatri Mantra, a powerful chant.


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Lyse in Arunachala

Lyse Michel, a Montrealer who went on the Fountain of Happiness retreat to Arunachala, India, with Mollie Lawson, offers this report:

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Hanuman in the streets?

Margo Veitch stayed at  Arunachala, the sacred mountain near Tiruvannamallai in Southern India this fall. The event was a retreat organized by Montreal yoga teacher Mollie Lawson.

Margo, a Montrealer by origin, massage therapist and yoga teacher, now lives in New Hampshire. Among her many impressions from Arunachala: "The monkeys were truly amazing!"

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(Photos by Margo Veitch)

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Daphnée in India

For many in the Montreal yoga community, India beckons, as the home of yoga, as a pilgrimage to a place that works along different lines.

Daphnée St. Pierre, teacher at several locations in Montreal, including Joy of Yoga and the YMCA,  has gone to India for study and seva. She reported in on Jan 18:

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