“In addition, the use of Kriyā, without a knowledge of the individuals Doṣa is certainly going to do more harm than good.
Doṣa, briefly, means the constitution of the individual; some are fat, some tend to get a lot of colds, some have acid problems, some are nervous.
So different beings show different predominances in the Doṣa, and Kriyā must be considered in relation to these varying constitutions.”
– TKV Desikachar from lectures on ‘The Yoga of T Krishnamacharya’,
given at Zinal, Switzerland 1981.

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