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Originally Posted by ddj
Wow, Nirvair moved to New Mexico. How different from Alaska! I wonder what that's been like for him.
Betsy, can you tell us how long the sets in Nirvair's book are? I know you said to work at your own pace, but maybe just a general idea? I also love KY but find it hard to fit in because of everything else I do. I could probably fit in some of Raviana's shorter sets but you make it sound as if that wouldn't be beneficial?
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Nirvair moved to New Mexico because he is now the head of the Kundalini Research Institute, based in Espanola, NM. New Mexico is beautiful, but boy, what a change from Alaska! Nirvair and his wife had been living there since the very early 1970s.
The sets in Nirvair's book range from 10 minutes to about 45 minutes--there are also brief rests between exercises. Each exercise has a stated time element--and the time given is the maximum. You can always do an exercise for less time than is stated. A class consists of the tune-in, a warm-up, the actual yoga set, a deep relaxation, and a meditation. So a class might be 90 minutes but only half of the time might be the actual yoga set. Since most people don't have 90 minutes to spend on yoga, what can be done is to simply select a short set for the yoga portion of the practice. When I teach I will often use a very gentle, short set for the warm-up, and then a longer set for the "actual" yoga part of the class, so we are actually doing 2 entire yoga sets. Sometimes I will teach a class where the yoga set itself is quite short because I've selected a lengthy meditation to do and/or I want to have a really long deep relaxation because of a sense that the class needs that.
The really great thing about doing yoga on your own is the freedom of choice that you have. Short set, long set, short meditation, long meditation ... it's all up to you, the time you have, or the physical, emotional, or energetic issue that you want to work on, and the choice of music (or none at all) is yours also.