(updated) as promised: Outtake, warrior poses in sun salutation & some babblin’-writin’

   (it’s a Google video, if the image doesn’t move, you have to click the screen three times. thanks.)

     Postscript: One of the internet sites says that the Sanskrit name of one of the warrior poses is that of a famous warrior of Shiva:  Virabhadra, who defeated many gods in the battlefield in obedience to Shiva who waged that battle in the name of — you guessed it — love and grief! They won and forgave. It doesn’t say however whether the pose predates the name, if it does, you have to go back further than those cultures that  named it so you’ll know the why (why it’s embedded in the second sun salutation). (in the olden times, people fought over land, and even now). So, you’ll have to find out what to you is worth fighting for — home….family… land… honor….love…friendship…money…freedom… when you are…. oh, go figure.

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It’s outtakes-time!!! 

       not  being an anthropologist or historian or sociologist,  i don’t know for a fact why there are warrior poses in the second set of sun salutation or as  interspersed in the entire set and in other kinds or branches — i mean, the story of it,  or the history of it, or the culture whence it came, everything has a story if you look at it. There are no extant records of the oldest poses of the ancient practice; as i understand it, the oldest known drawings of some of the poses were carbon-dated to 2,000 years ago or 5,000 years ago.  

        So, i just go by the sense of it, maybe we should ask the social scientists to practise  for several months (since there are no written accounts surrounding the oldest poses) and tell us their sense of it.  (although i have a theory).

      The first set of sun salutation (post-video published here last November), looks to me like,  or feels to me like, an expression of, oh, i don’t know,  a sense of awe for the heavens or the heavenly bodies  —  the first set.

      And why shouldn’t you/… they?  (admire the heavens or heavenly bodies) It’s  probably the most natural thing  that it’s almost primal.

       The second set contains warrior poses. Why? Lemme know your theory. 

         Of course, if you’re practising  just for the workout of it, or  for the trend of it, or for the stretch and exercise of it, or  you’re mouthing generalizations or lines you read somewhere  or  you’re just…. according to sociologist Prof. Randy David, “journey” as metaphor for life or struggle is the most hackneyed, so i never used it from then on after i read him….or  we’ll just use the word “trip” so Prof. Randy won’t say it’s hackneyed; as in “wow, pare, trip” (pangit pakinggan, mas maganda pakinggan “journey”, rock band), or we’ll just use the word “voyage”, which is similar-sounding to the brandname of luggage-suitcases, or we’ll just say “odyssey”, wrong spelling, wrong; or you’re just…whatever it is;   you’ll probably have no idea what this babbling is all about,  or  what i’ve been trying to find out. If eiyneee (any).

       Oh, i know now, we’ll just ask Manolo (pronounced “Manowlow”) to practise with us, and he’ll say, “Are you absolutely crazy — you’re asking me to contort and twist my spine just so you can find out whether the ancients knew something we don’t? Of course they knew something we don’t — don’t you notice i’m always digging up records.” (i’m just kidding; he won’t say that.)

         I think it’s worth the trip.

        (Hey, i did it, i finally used the sense without using the word “journey”)

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