Konstantin Stanislavsky widely used pranayama exercises to develop actors’ creative well-being , even including a count for inhaling-exhaling and holding the breath.

     After seeing the effects of yoga on his students, Konstantin Stanislavsky quickly started using it even more: in actors’ trainings in the Second Studio (which was established in 1916) and the Opera Studio (founded in 1918), and for the work of the actors in the MAT (Moscow Art Theatre). Stanislavsky’ s notebooks from 1919–1920 contain many notes on the application of Hatha Yoga, together with Swedish gymnastics, exercises on rhythm and voice training in his classes.

     The most detailed connection between Stanislavsky’s system and yoga is found in notes to the classes with the MAT artists (1919). Rose Whyman, a British scholar of Stanislavsky’s work, has pointed out that the notes contain a hidden synopsis of the part of the book Hatha Yoga on prana.

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