Os 90 anos de B.K.S Iyengar se aproximam :)

É neste domingo, dia 14!

Estava procurando uma imagem do Iyengar para ilustrar o blog de A Macaca quando encontrei uma grande reportagem sobre o Guruji na CNN (em seu quadro Talk in Asia).
Muito especial, mesmo. Reproduzo aqui esta recomendação (em inglês).

B.K.S. Iyengar: Until the body is cleansed, purified, sanctified, how can you enter the gates of the soul? The body is like a fort, it's called purusha. Pura means a fort, so you have to enter the seven gates one after the other, from the skin, to the flesh, from the flesh to the mind, mind to intelligence, intelligence to the consciousness, consciousness to highness, highness to the conscience, conscience to the self. So there are so many gates in this fort. So unless you open the front gate, how can you enter the second gate or the third gate? That's the value of yoga. Yoga makes us to open the first gate so that the air may enter in, the cosmic force may enter in, and through that cosmic force, the other gates are entered, so that the external so-called body is one united with the internal self, the capital line which you don't change at all.

AR: Have you ever thought about where you would be if you didn't have yoga in your life?

BKS: Probably, I would have died long ago. I would not have lived.

AR: Why do you think that?

BKS: Because I was suffering from tuberculosis. Even the insurance company, doctors knew that I would not, I would not survive long. Then I was 25 years old. Now I'm reaching 90, so yoga has given me a bonus life of 75 years, how happy I am! (laughs)"

A Macaca, onde pratico, fará uma programação comemorativa,gratuita e aberta ao público em geral. Simbora?

Domingo, 14 de dezembro, em A Macaca (Rua Patizal, 38. Vila Madalena. Tel: 3034-5029):

7h30-9h30 – 90 Surya Namaskar desejando vida muito longa ao Guruji. A prática será conduzida e dividida em quatro partes.

10h-11h30 – Aula de Iyengar

12h – Nossa idéia é almoçarmos todos juntos no restaurante Banana Verde, bem próximo ao espaço. Quer juntar-se a nós?

A partir das 14h: Exposição e vídeos sobre a vida e prática de B.K.S Iyengar.

16h-17h – Aula de Iyengar, com foco em asanas restaurativos.

17h30 – Apresentação de dança indiana e kirtans!