Yoga Korunta
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The Yoga Korunta is a purported ancient text on Yoga, transmitted by oral tradition to Tirumalai Krishnamacharya by his teacher Rama Mohan Brahmachari in the early 20th century, and further to Sri K. Pattabhi Jois beginning in 1927, who then used it as the basis of his system of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga introduced in 1948.
The existence or historicity of this oral transmission cannot be verified, and the text itself has not been preserved. It is said to have been made up of stanzas using rhymed, metered sutras, in the manner common to texts transmitted orally in the guru-shishya tradition.
The text is said to have described several lists of many different asana groupings, as well as highly original teachings on vinyasa, drishti, bandhas, mudras, and general teachings.[1]
The name Yoga Korunta is the Tamilized pronunciation of the Sanskrit words Yoga grantha, meaning "Book about Yoga".
[edit] References
- ^ "Ashtanga Yoga Background". ashtanga.com. http://www.ashtanga.com/html/background.html. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
[edit] Sources
- Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois. "Ashtanga Yoga". Ashtanga Yoga Research Center. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070630202047/http://www.ayri.org/method.html. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
