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Studio Kalari turns 10!
On May 7, 2010, at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław we inaugurated regular activities as Studio Kalari with a lecture on kalarippayattu, and the next day the first official training took place. Continue reading “10 years of Studio Kalari”
Many people ask if kalarippayattu is like yoga. Some use the name kalari yoga to describe the part of the kalari practice which includes exercises or movement sequences that are compared to yoga asanas. Perhaps this is due to the fact that kalarippayattu is a little-known martial art and its complexity is not easy to explain quickly, while yoga is a globally recognized reference point.
Ancient India is a unique cradle of the art of life, culture and philosophy. Indian civilization has created, among others, systems such as ayurveda, yoga and kalarippayattu. It can be said that Ayurveda – nomen omen knowledge of life (from Sanskrit: ayus – life, veda – knowledge) – lays the foundations for various areas of human activity and is present within them in various ways. Although at first glance dance, music, yoga or martial arts are areas distant from each other, requiring different skills, characterized by different dynamics and focusing on different aspects of life, deeply in their foundations they have a lot in common.
Continue reading “Martial art of life and health, or what connects kalari and ayurveda”
The last weeks brought many changes. Our daily functioning has been turned upside down by the coronavirus epidemic which caused an avalanche of consequences. One of them is that we transferred our trainings to the Internet, like many others did.
We met with Sankar in December 2005 in the village of Bollopur, West Bengal, where, together with a group of friends, I came to participate in a monthly theatre workshop led by the Indian group Milon Mela.
Continue reading “From India with love and kalari, or how Studio Kalari was created”
Interview with master Sathyanarayanan G Nair from CVN KalariSoon an interview with the master will be available here.
Kalari practice in IndiaRead and find out how kalari practice in our school in India looks like.
Remembering the Summer School of Studio Kalari 2022Read about our favourite summer workshops.
Regularity in kalari practice
Kalari, kalaripayat or kalarippayattu?
Animal postures
10 typical kalari exercises
Uniting kalari through photos – an interview with an American photographer Jeff Schaeffer
Books on kalarippayattuRead the article and check what books on kalari have been published.
10 years of Studio KalariText copyright: Justyna Rodzińska-Nair/Studio Kalari
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