It's really bindu. At the yoga school Ronon is teaching the gentle Iyengar yoga, but he himself practices the more sophisticated Mysore school Ashtanga yoga, which is involved in learning to control the channels, energies, and elements (bindus).
Ronon was trying to tell John that there were channels in the body along which energies flow and drive the life elements. These energies were now screwed up in John's leg. But yoga doesn't just provide physical rehab: if he does the mental part it will speed his recovery. John got hung up on the vocabulary and didn't know what the heck Ronon was talking about. (It's partially Ronon's fault. He's used to talking to yoga students and new agers about this stuff so didn't explain the basics.)
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Date: 2007-12-26 08:32 pm (UTC)It's really bindu. At the yoga school Ronon is teaching the gentle Iyengar yoga, but he himself practices the more sophisticated Mysore school Ashtanga yoga, which is involved in learning to control the channels, energies, and elements (bindus).
Ronon was trying to tell John that there were channels in the body along which energies flow and drive the life elements. These energies were now screwed up in John's leg. But yoga doesn't just provide physical rehab: if he does the mental part it will speed his recovery. John got hung up on the vocabulary and didn't know what the heck Ronon was talking about. (It's partially Ronon's fault. He's used to talking to yoga students and new agers about this stuff so didn't explain the basics.)
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