I believe that in the book too, he asks teachers not to teach these without his permission. Though once I’ve practised them, I shall definitely nick chunks here and there.

I spent time reviewing and “chunking” Simha Krama into sections, too. Helped immensely. If you go picture by picture, it’s impossible to see the… well, the bigger picture.

Interesting question about the intellectual property, Owl. I’ll bet he’d disavow any “rights,” but also imagine he’d want to see the sequences “transmitted” with some sort of integrity (integrity in the sense of holding their original intention, rather than integrity in the sense of them being hyper-specific recipes)… But that’s just my guess.

I wrote myself a sort of “transcript” of the Simha, Baddha and Uddi Kramas, grouping the poses by categories such as “Standing 1, 2, 3″ or “Camelotuses” or “Yogadandasanas” and that really helped grok the sequences. I have Simha virtually memorized from my “cheat sheet”.

Why yes, I’m an academic, why do you ask?

I always slip in enough freestyle periodically to avoid my practice becoming too rote.