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Dear friends, here’s a little treat for you!
I’d embed it here, but you really should go to YogaDawg’s blog to see the awesome mashup video he produced, combining Bob Weisenberg’s wonderous Flamenco-style (I think) guitar playing with some beauteous yoga asana.
Most inspiring.
Happy Tuesday, people.
~Svasti
Svasti: A Journey From Assault To Wholeness 
You got it right, Svasti. It’s not only flamenco, but authentic traditional flamenco.
You see, I used to participate in long debates about what is and isn’t flamenco in the same way I do with Yoga now!
There are so many parallels, even to the extent that I had a flamenco guru, the venerable Diego del Gastor, and I went to live among the gypsies in Andalusia. The piece YogaDawg used is called “Homage to Diego”.
I guess it will be no surprise that in flamenco, as in Yoga, I’m an ultra-traditional player who embraces diversity, including all the more commercial music people insist on calling “flamenco” today!
I really enjoyed YogaDawg’s treatment. Thanks for passing it on.
Bob Weisenberg
http://YogaDemystified.com
P.S. Meant to include this:
“Flamenco Guitar as Yoga Philosophy”
http://yogademystified.com/discussion-and-commentary/flamenco-guitar-as-yoga-philosophy/
@Bob – I really love flamenco. Its such a passionate kind of music! How amazing, an opportunity to live with gypsies. Have you written about that at all? Thanks for the info and for sharing your post. 🙂
You can find an article about my time in Spain on the CD notes for “American Gypsy”, the last row on this page of pictures from my MySpace site:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=377939970&albumId=493312
Music samples and other links are at http://www.myspace.com/padreehijo
(including the complete version of the piece YogaDawg used–“Homage to Diego”)
Thanks so much for your appreciation.
Bob Weisenberg
http://YogaDemystified.com
@Bob – I’ve just spent the last couple of days listening to your two albums on last.fm and I wanted to say thank you for sharing your beautiful, gentle, passionate, intricate and utterly delightful music with the world. Truly, I’m impressed. 🙂