Chris Fleming wrote:Having been doing Pranayama for a little while (and loving it!) I would caution anyone getting a book and trying to learn it. Like with the rest of this chi gong stuff, get a real teacher.
Haoran wrote:I would say it's about Quality vs Fluff rather than traditional vs non-traditional.
Who is going to teach positions only vs who will teach breath as well.
What percentage of class is breath, what percentage is stretching/positions.
What is the teacher's understanding of the art and the possiblities that it can bring.
etc.
Miro wrote:It is the same as with learning Chinese - some clever people somehow calculated that to learn Chinese, one needs to spend approximately 2000 hours to learn it on average level. If one studies it once a week for two hours, it will take 19 years... If one practices for two hours every day, it will take 2.7 years. So you can interpolate - three years of standing in mabu for two hours daily means getting average skills in basics... So it takes 10 years to practice at least two hours daily to get to the advanced level when one can start to understand what is is it all about - and then he can back and he can start to practice it again from the beginning, correcting all his mistakes (all his incorrect practice due to unability to understand) in previous training... Good luck to all.
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