Ashtanga Yoga with Eddie Stern 

Love this session - Ashtanga Yoga with Eddie Stern. Thank you so much for spreading scientific wisdom of YOGA. In Gratitude. Sunil Kanojia

I can relate to this around 28:00 In Yoga it seems to me that we are striving to get rid of the ego and are seeking to find oneness with everything and everyone. Then we pick a team! And join it! And defend it! lol. Kidding aside though, I've come to the conclusion that while this is totally normal human behavior (we love to pick and join a team) that Yoga (and meditation) is a method of being able to observe some our own human behaviors and make a conscious decision about which one's serve our well being and which ones do not. The yogis that I encounter that have some kind of regular practice have a sense of humor and perspective about this and seem to realize there are myriad paths.. Thanks for this discussion!

Love this discussion!

"Im not afraid of death, i just dont want to there when it happens"

I began a yoga practice in 1971 as a spiritual practice. Yoga is a state of being not a doing and it is also not a religion or affiliated with the Hindu religion. The way it morphed into a stretching class with people doing a lot of intense contortion body positions that have nothing to do with real life movement. You can go your entire life and never do plow pose or shoulderstand and your body will work just fine. However a regular diet of those poses can seriously damage your joints and the cohesion of your structure. Yoga is not regulated and never been biomechanically evaluated for safety or effectiveness. After people have begun to dislocate hip replacements in yoga classes, the mayo clinic now recommends avoiding child's pose, triangle, lunges with the rear foot perpendicular, shoulder stand etc. The body is not made of parts so focusing on yoga or exercise poses that engage the body in parts will not lead to cohesion in real life movement. All movements reverberate throughout the whole body. Also leg behind the head poses can put a huge stress on the cervical spine. More people are getting damage to the vertebral artery dissection or VAD. People are getting mini strokes. If you have to use your hands to put your feet somewhere on your body, they do not belong there. Also trying to force the body into yoga poses by having a teacher put you into yoga poses, makes no sense. Ashtanga yoga is not a sustainable practice at all as the human body is not designed to do these contortion poses. I did ashtanga many years ago until I figured out that many of the poses were over-stretching my spine and hip ligaments. I had a lot of neck and back pain when I did that practice as the focus on static stretching creates ligament laxity. As a professional bodyworker, I had many clients injured from yoga. The people with the most back pain have loose spine ligaments. Flexibility is a huge liability. Eddie Stern's back pain which he thought was from teaching and adjusting may be a result of an unstable spine and hips from his overstretched ligaments and tendons from doing the ashtanga yoga practices. Yogis never want to question the practice but we need to do that. Many of the Ashtanga yoga poses are derived from contortion routines and military drills. Jois claimed there was a scroll that showed the ashtanga poses that was ancient but when pressed to show it, he claimed it was eaten by ants! Apparently most yoga poses are only about 120 years old and have been heavily influenced by Western physicality. Jois was a sexual molester and also injured many people with his very forceful adjustments. He did not even do the practice after he reached the age of 41. I was one of the people that Jois sexually assaulted in 1991 and this has been documented in Matthew Remski's well researched book called Practice and All is Coming. I hope that Eddie Stern is not promoting Jois as a spiritual yoga master. In my decades of teaching, I have met so many people especially women who practiced ashtanga yoga and have had to get hip replacements. Beryl Bender and Jill Miller are two examples. There are many more and I am reading that orthopedic surgeons are calling yoga a hip killer. A yoga practice should stabilize joints and avoid static stretching which can really drive force to the joints. check out www.yogalign.com. Also here is P. Jois molesting people and injuring others in a video of him teaching. I do not trust anything this man taught and I recommend everyone use discernment before making your body do ashtanga yoga. vimeo.com/357016753

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