Full archive of Alan Goode's writings available for public reading and download as pdf. This archive contains Alans published articles from the mid 1990's.
Full archive of Alan Goode's writings available for public reading and download as pdf. This archive contains Alans published articles from the mid 1990's.
The history of yoga is that it has been passed from teacher to student (guru to sisya) over millennia. Each teacher grapples with and establishes a way of working to resolve the questions posed within the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali.
Article by Alan Goode on Yoga as a meditative discipline
Article by Alan Goode upon the death of BKS Iyengar in August 2014, reflecting on Iyengar's influence over more than 3 decades.
This joint article written by Peter Scott and Alan Goode celebrates the work of BKS Iyengar.
This article examines the place of action (practice) and stillness (renunciation) in our practice and why they are essential .....
BKS Iyengar writes
I have no right to brand my method of practice and teaching as “Iyengar Yoga”. It is my pupils that call it Iyengar Yoga to distinguish it from the teachings of others. Though I am rational, I am a man of sentiment and tradition bound. I trust the statements of others, follow their lines of explanation and experiment with them to gain experience.....
If yoga is “the stilling of the fluctuation in the consciousness,” then practice is the movement of consciousness from a state of distraction, through observation, to reach a state of attention ....
A reference card of Alan Goode's Arm Balance sequence in stick figures. As practiced regularly in the Established and Early Morning classes at the Institute. Alan also taught a similar sequence at the BKSIYAA National Convention in Melbourne in September 2014.
The knee is one of the most complex joints in the body. It is highly flexible and yet bears the weight of the body across its surfaces. This combination makes it susceptible to damage and strain making it one of the most common sites of sporting injuries and a potential site of yoga practice injuries ....
Any person who is not lethargic can practice yoga, be he young, old very old, sick or weak. One who is intent on practice will obtain yoga, not one who is idle. Yoga is not obtained by the reading Scriptures, nor by wearing the dress of a yogini, nor by talking about it. Practice alone is the course of success.
