Talk:Anusara School of Hatha Yoga

message: this is lame,  what about all the spirals and stuff?
yeah, lame as usual bout spirals, chanting, guardian angels and stuff  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.187.91.50 (talk) 18:04, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Spirals are there, as is the invocation. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  ...and they've since been removed, but can still be found in the article's edit history. Morganfitzp (talk) 20:39, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Spirals?

message: In the "Opening invocation" section, the roman transliteration doesn't match the devanagari Sanskrit. The correct transliteration of the devanagari of the three middle lines is:
(2) sachidananda mutayai
(3) nisapapachaya shanataya
(4) niralamabaya tejase
I don't know the quote, but it appears to me likely that the devanagari was done by someone not too familiar with it. At least in the shanataya/shantaya, it is the roman shantaya that is correct. The translation also isn't so good, more of a paraphrased interpretation.
Aftermath (talk) 03:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Transliteration

message: anusara.com says "Anusara (a-nu-sar-a), means 'flowing with Grace,' 'flowing with Nature,' 'following your heart.'" 
This seems to be all that can be drawn from the website in terms of explaining the name.
It doesn't even say that the idea is that they are talking about Sanskrit. 
But since this is yoga, and since the same page contains more "translations" of what is evidently Sanskrit
("Om Namah Shivaye Gurave 'I honour the essence of being the auspicious one, the luminous teacher within and without'")
it is safe to assume that we are talking about Sanskrit anusāra. 
This (according to MW) has the meaning of "going after, following", and hence "custom, usage, prevalence, conformity, normal condition", etc.
I am not sure how this is supposed to give rise to "flowing with Grace", let alone "following your heart". --dab (𒁳) 12:05, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Just saw that this article has been rated as mid-importance for both the India and Hinduism WikiProjects. Why? Anusara is an American style of yoga, and a newer one at that. Although it borrows some philosophy from Hindu texts, I hardly think that the world's Hindus would say, "Oh yes, this style of yoga created by John Friend in 1997 is moderately important to us." In reference to the nation of India, Anusara is of even lower importance, so little that it does not belong in that category. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for changing it to Low. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: India? Hinduism?

message: The article Yoga is categorized as high importance on Wikipedia:WikiProject Health and fitness.  Should this article also be on that project?  Maybe as mid importance?  LaTeeDa (talk) 07:08, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this page be part of the Health and Fitness project? 

message: Much of the editing of this article in 2012 has been less about Anusara Yoga and more about its founder, John Friend. Friend has since stepped down from Anusara and gone on to other things. Editors can now write about Friend in greater detail at John Friend (yogi). This page will continue to focus on the style of yoga that Friend created, Anusara Yoga. Morganfitzp (talk) 18:35, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New [[John Friend (yogi)]] article 

message: What's with the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga yoga thingee going through the whole text? That's freaky!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.151.18.178 (talk) 10:27, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This article has been rebranded, presumably by a member of that school. And I see, anonymous poster 87.151.18.178, that there have been some editing wars about it. I agree, however, that this is an effort to rebrand a product by an interested party and a possible violation of Wikipedia's NPOV policy. Morganfitzp (talk) 19:06, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anusara School of Hatha Yoga yoga 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Articles on belief systems, traditions and practices (that are notable enough to have an article), can summarize those.  However, this section lacks inline citations (it actually is completely unreferenced even), but also presents claims as if they were established processes, then discovered: "John Friend noticed [...]".My impression is that sources should be referenced and those statements about the system should ideally be credited to those sources or authors.  An example that is already better would be: "John Friend wrote in [...] that [...]".  Or: "According to John Friend, he noticed [...]."<reference>  This avoids making extraordinary (or even pseudoscientific) metaphysics claims in Wikipedia's voice like if they were facts, while showing the reader where those claims come from (and where to read more about it).  Thanks, — PaleoNeonate — 17:21, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: There were no wp:secondary sources describing the school's system in details such as was presentend in the article, so most of it had to be removed to conform with Wikipedia's policy. KarlPoppery (talk) 13:47, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  A quick web search for "energy loops Anusara" turns up lots of sources. Why not cite several of these instead of downsizing the article?  Morganfitzp (talk) 12:12, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not agains't expending the article, as long as every info added is sourced. If the claim made is of a medical nature in any way, the source should respect the high standards of Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). KarlPoppery (talk) 13:57, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Is yoga a medical tradition? Or is it a philosophical tradition? Morganfitzp (talk) 11:20, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Energy Loops