Listening to the 3 week backbend intensive in Pune from 1991

I was fortunate a few years ago to have George let me borrow the videos from this backbend intensive, I have watched it several times. I have always watched it visually just seeing what they are doing. The audio is poor quality, it has a muffled sound plus the street noise honking, yelling etc make some instructions impossible to hear at all, so I would watch picking up very little of what was said. The students were moaning, sweating, working so hard, getting hit, propped in ways that were hard to watch at times so i had a certain perspective of the classes just from watching.

I decided since Guruji's passing to watch again and upload the sequences from the classes, this required listening if i wanted to include instruction notes along with the pose names, and this has changed my perspective. I am playing them again totally tuned in with my ears, headphones on trying to pick up as much as possible. What is being communicated is on such a different level than the physicality it's a different class. for example on week 1 day 4, my notes for adho mukha vrksasana (which may or may not be what he actually says)

adho mukha vrksasana – how to adjust yourself, intelligence touching front of leg and not back, bring the intelligence to touch so identical, how to diffuse to become a single mind, stabilize the mind, extend body and mind together so front and back identical, mirror this action reflects on that mirror, (sutra IV.22 Consciousness distinguishes its own awareness and intelligence when it reflects and identifies its source - the changeless seer - and assumes his form) mirror and reflected mirror has no refraction on the mind, front knee reflects on back mirror of knee, stretch inner outer ligament of knee so they run parallel

this has been throughout the classes. just like i feel Manouso brings Guruji into the room, Guruji brings Patanjali. He invites him in and weaves the sutras in his teaching of the asana, it takes the class to something higher. I knew that someone just looking at a class doing supta padangusthasana could perceive people laying around while the reality was very different, it is the same here, my perception of just watching a physically active class while the reality was something different. 

The first 4 classes have been uploaded...enjoy!