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Joga I

(Metodická pomôcka pre cvičencov kurzu pre začiatočníkov)

G.M. Timčák

Materiál celoročných kurzov jogy zostavených na základe 25 ročných skúseností s cvičením jogy v skupinách v rámci býv. oddielu jogových cvičení TJ Slávia VŠT a potom SPJ Košice. Knižka podáva rozsiahlu sériu prípravných cvičení, základnú sériu ásán, pránájámy, mudier a bándh ako aj šatkariem. Zvláštna kapitola je venovaná jednoduchým cvičeniam mentálnej hygieny a relaxácie. Pre uľahčenie úpravy životosprávy sú uvedené aj základné recepty jogovej kuchyne. Príručka je doplnená slovníkom sanskritských výrazov. Je ilustrovaná kresbami aj fotografiami. Maďarský preklad knihy je pred druhým vydaním.

3. vydanie

Cena: 3.50€ (plus poštovné a balné)

Objednávky: SPJ, Kováčska 16, 040 01 Košice


 

ÁSANY – telesné polohy jogy

G.M. Timčák, M. Polášek, D. Dugáček

   Na jar 1999 vyšla konečne v internom vydaní SAJ Bratislava publikácia, ktorá obsahuje väčšinu klasických ásán, ktoré cvičiteľ resp- učiteľ jogy môže chcieť zvládnuť. Obsahuje aj popis špeciálnych ásán, ktoré v iných knihách nenájdete. Publikácia obsahuje popis ásán, ich účinkov ako aj návod na ich optimálne cvičenie, indikácie a kontraindikácie. Knižka je koncipovaná pre pokročilejších cvičencov a cvičiteľov jogy. Knižka je zároveň oficiálnym výučbovým materiálom školiaceho strediska SAJ. Obsahuje az robrazenie popisovaných ásán.

Cena: 9€ (+poštovné a balné)

Objednávky: SPJ, Kováčska 16, 040 01 Košice


 

ZBORNÍK PREDNÁŠOK 1. KONFERENCIE SLOVENSKEJ ASOCIÁCIE JOGY

Redigoval: J. Práger, K. Brejová

V roku 1998 sa uskutočnila prvá konferencia SAJ v Bratislave. Zborník obsahuje väčšinu príspevkov, ktoré odzneli v prednáškovej časti. Príspevky pojednávajú o témach ako: joga a jej účinky na človeka, postupy, ktorými je možné cvičenie jogy zintenzívniť, Slovenská a európska joga a i.

Cena: 3€  (+poštovné a balné)

Objednávky: momentálne vypredané


 

Svedectvo starých majstrov jogy o Pravde a Poznaní

G.M. Timčák (ed.)

Vydav. Šport Bratislava 1991

Táto knižka je jediným slovenským prekladom troch krátkych ale významných diel o joge: Górakšašátakam, Aparókšanubhúti a Sarvópanišad. Górakšašátakam je dielo známeho zakladateľa prastarej školy jogy Górakhnathov, ktoré popisuje podstatu hathajógových cvičení (od šatkariem po samádhi). Aparókšanubhúti bolo napísané Ádi Šankaračarjom, zakladateľom Advaita vedánty, najvyššieho stupňa Indickej filozofie. Pojednáva o rádžajóge v advaitistickom chápaní a ceste k Poznaniu (džňána). Sarvópanišad je jedna z “malých” upanišad. Popisuje vedantický pohľad na človeka a jeho cestu k prekonaniu nepoznania. Vysvetľuje pojmy potrebné k pochopeniu nemateriálnych aspektov jogy.

Cena: 3€  (+ poštovné a balné)

Objednávky: SPJ, Kováčska 16, 040 01 Košice

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Review of

The Anatomy of Hathayoga

by H. David Coulter

Body and Breath, Honesdale, 2001

 

The book is an impressive volume devoted to anatomical cum physiological knowledge needed to understand the physical basis and effect of a selected range of hathayoga practices (asanas, pranayama, some bandhas  and a few shatkarmas). It has a subtitle “A manual for students, teachers and practitioners” that reflects the primary target group, though one would feel that it could be also useful to physiotherapists,  alternative health care practitioners and researchers alike.

The author strives to be exact and precise in his language even though admittedly, some details of the asanas are difficult to relate in words and as the author also stated, the various schools have a tendency to differ from each other in details or even in principal matters. He starts with the basics like a painter hat first lays the foundation layers and only then starts drawing the outline of the picture, then painting and finally varnishing it. Thus he tells about  basic anatomical and neurological items, explains their properties, function and practical examples that connect them to something known. Then come the yoga applications.

There have been efforts to tackle this subject by other authors, like Professor B. Vigh – the eminent  anatomist of the Semmelweiss University in Budapest (in his books Yoga and science, published in Budapest  in 1972 and Yoga and the nervous system published in Budapest in 1980), but they were addressed to the yoga practitioners and lay community and lacked the rigour and extent of David Coulter’s approach.

The book is arranged into 10 interlinked chapters. The first one deals with movement and posture, the second with breathing, the third with abdomino-pelvic exercises, the forth with standing postures, the fifth with backbending postures, the sixth with forward bending postures, the seventh with twisting postures, one complete chapter is devoted to headstand, one to shoulderstand and the tenth is devoted to relaxation and meditation. This completes the circle.

The insertion of valuable thoughts of different yoga protagonists, recall of interesting stories that help the digestion of the essence of a given fact make the book inspiring.

The book is truly excellent as a teaching and reference book for yoga teacher courses and for in-training yoga teachers. The author blends his experience both as an anatomist and a yoga practitioner and the result is the best treatise to be found on this group of subjects.

What I also like very much is that he evidently passed on his enthusiasm for yoga also to his family and his son is doing the modelling for 8 chapters of the book.

Still, there are a few comments that I would like to make:

1. The book is not fully consistent in presenting the asanas. Some postures are given in Iyengar style, some not, and the reason is not always clear for the choice.

2.      It is a great pity that he did not choose to present more details on other than the chosen  traditional shatkarmas – like the dhautis, neti etc. It would be nice to have his careful treatment of all the shatkarmas mentioned in Hathapradipika, Gheranda samhita or Satkarmasangrahah. 

3..      He shows in Fig.2.21 a spirogram of bhastrika and kapalabhati. Again the Bihar school of yoga as well as swami Devamurti´s approach (or that of Thai Buddhists) is to ventilate more intensively, with greater tidal volume than in case of kapalabhati. If one compares Coulter’s  spirograms with those given in Dr. D. Ebert’s book (Physiologische Aspekte des Yoga, Thieme, Leipzig, 1986), - Fig. 17 - we can see a significant difference. Thus to my knowledge it is unusual to have bhastrika performed with less tidal volume than kapalabhati.  But it seems that it  is dependent on the school of yoga according to which one does the practice, too. The spirograms on Fig.2.21 seem to be somewhat idealised.

4.      Of special interest are his comments on hypoventilation and hyperventilation. More details on hypoventilation would be exceptionally interesting as prolonged in- and exhalations as well as breath retentions may decrease radically the minute ventillation. It would be interesting to have his comments on the Buteyko method (cf. Dr. Ameisen P.J. 1997: Every breath you take, Lansdowne, Victoria). In 1978 a Russian researcher reported that  a 30” inhalation and 30” exhalation rhythm had led to a state of anabiosis (J. Katkov in Proc. of the 1st Conference on the application of yoga in physiotherapy, Kosice-Saca, 1978). T. Hirai (in his groundbreaking book: Psychophysiology of Zen, Igaku Shoin Tokyo, 1974) reported about radical lowering of the metabolic rate during slow, deep breathing associated with Zen meditation.

8.      Not less interesting would be Coulter’s  comments on “hyperventilation” associated with holotropic breathwork. Here the main point would be to model the reason why alteration of breathing styles can bring up altered states of consciousness. It would be fair to say that the association of holotropic breathwork with “classical” hyperventilation is putative (cf. S. Grof´s books on the subject, like the Stormy search for the Self, Beyond the brain, and others) .

I strongly recommend the use of the book in the Yoga teacher courses of the European Union of Yoga and the translation of the book for the same purpose  within the Slovak Yoga association and Hungarian Yoga  Association.  The new edition (2008) is available also in pdf format.

 

Košice, Easter 2002

Geza M. Timcak PhD

President of the Slovak Yoga Association

Associate professor at the Technical university of Košice

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Pozri aj www.spj.saj.sk


 

Krátka história medicíny

Story z Webu

. Bolí ma ucho!

2000 B.C. – Vezmi si tento koreň a zjedz ho.

1000 A.D. – Ten koreň je pohanský, pomodli sa túto modlitbu.

1850 A.D. – Tá modlitba je povera, vypi túto zmes.

1940 A.D. – Táto zmes je hadí olej, zhltni túto pilulku.

1985 A.D. – Táto pilulka je neúčinná, zober si toto antibiotikum.

2000 A.D. – To antibiotikum je umelé, vezmi si tento koreň a zjedz ho.

 

A short history of medicine

A Web based story

. I have an ear ache!

2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.

1000 A.D. - That root is heathen, say this prayer.

1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.

1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.

1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.

2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.  

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"Zeitschrift YOGA":

 Editorial (Der Vorstand)

Editiorial (Le comité)

  SYG – Info – FSY

Wichtige Daten/Dates importantes

www.yoga.ch

Kontakte/contacts

Ruth Scherz-Westhauser (Eléonore Dolibois)

OFFA 2000 – Aktivitätenbühne

Procčs-verbal de l'Assemblée Générale FSY

Protokoll der Generalversammlung SYG

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des Fragebogens

  Yoga-Praxis/Pratique de yoga

Mieux vivre et mieux gérer le diabčte (Chris Mangeart)

Hinführung zu natarajasana = Tänzer (Regina Surber)

  Gesundheit/Santé

L'ulcére gastroduodénal (T.K. Sribhashyam/Nancy Carpentier)

La Médecine indienne, ou Ayurvéda (Nancy Carpentier)

  Philosophie

Bhagavad-Gětâ: Le Karma-Yoga (Gérard Duc)

Zurück zu den Quellen des traditionellen Yoga (Christine Glauser)

  Seminarberichte/Résumés de séminaires

Steinschlag im Wallis (Udo Heinss)

Gwatt (Christiane Hurtel, Marylčne Praz, Gabrielle Amaudruz Cazenave)

Yoga und Therapie (Magdalena Kaufmann)

Dhyana (M. Müller)

  

Austausch/Echanges

Briefkasten/Boîte aux lettres

Interview de Elfi Manzone (Swami Omkarananda)

Interview mit Elfi Manzone (Swami Omkarananda)

Stärken und Schwächen (Alex Nyfeler)
  

Bücherecke/Lu pour vous …

Bambus im Wind (Anne Marie Tritten)

Was machen wir jetzt? (Adelheid Ohlig)

  Agenda

Inserate/Annonces 


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