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  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Videos

    Pose of the Week: Paschimottanasana

    July 20, 2015 / No Comments

          How To Do Paschimottanasana  

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    Coming Home: A Journey Out of Addiction & Into Ashtanga Yoga

    September 9, 2015

    Asteya: Stealing a Yoga Practice

    June 24, 2015

    Yoga Conference Highlights from Sharath’s Stockholm Visit

    October 7, 2015
  • Ashtanga Adaptability,  Ashtanga Quotes,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Uncategorized,  Yoga Philosophy,  Yoga Sutras

    Yoga Sutras for Modern Day Life: Quantum Physics Meets Yoga?

    July 9, 2015 / No Comments

    Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 1:19 Among the bodiless ones and the ones absorbed in prakrti, there is intention of coming ind being.   Defining the Sutra   This post may require a suspension of your disbelief. But then again, so does yoga. The thought that there are bodiless beings sounds just as crazy as the idea of Samadhi or getting rid of non essential thought. To help us to fully understand this verse, I have brought in Greg Nardi, authorized level 2 Ashtanga teacher and avid student of the sutras and Gregor Maehle, author of many popular books on Ashtanga and Yoga, such as, “Ashtanga Yoga Practice and Philosophy and “Pranayama, the…

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    Pose of the Week: Urdhva Dhanurasana

    June 18, 2015

    APP Responds to “Why I Stopped Practicing Ashtanga Yoga”

    November 17, 2014

    Yoga Sutras For Modern Day Life: Peaceful Sleep, Peaceful Mind

    February 29, 2016
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Ask The APP,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Uncategorized

    Ask the APP: Ashtanga For All Bodies

    July 5, 2015 / No Comments

    “Old man, stiff man, weak man, sick man, they can all take practice but only a lazy man can’t take practice.” Sri K Pattabhi Jois There was an inquiry on the APP regarding Ashtanga and being overweight. Anyone can practice Ashtanga. Ashtanga is best learned using the Mysore style method which is learning the practice pose by pose from a teacher who has a firm and consistent practice. When learned this way, the teacher will teach you how to approximate ie get as close to the full version of the pose as safely as possible. The key here is finding a teacher who understands your body and knows how to…

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    Tales Of An Ex Ashtanga Whiner

    December 7, 2015

    Teach What You Want, Just Don’t Call It Ashtanga

    December 9, 2015

    Pose of the Week: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana

    November 23, 2015
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Quotes,  Uncategorized,  Yoga Philosophy

    The Magic Happens When Your Yoga Practice Sucks

    July 3, 2015 / 16 Comments

    Unfortunately, the magic happens when it sucks. This is why the yogis and Patanjali told us to practice consistently. They knew that we needed to come face to face with the suckiness and often.  I am not talking about pain from injuries. I am talking about the suckiness of being uncomfortable. The suckiness of wanting to be anywhere but on that mat. When it sucks, the biggest opportunity for transformation occurs. History shows us this. When we hear stories of huge internal life shattering transformations, it is usually prefaced by a heart wrenching story that sucks. For something to transform, it need to hit its “boiling point”. The boiling point is where the…

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    Pose of the Week: Kapotasana

    January 24, 2016

    Pose of the Week: Pasasana

    March 9, 2015

    Check This Out If Your Wrists Hurt

    January 9, 2014
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Ashtanga Quotes,  Reblogs,  Teaching Ashtanga

    Words of Wisdom For those on the Ashtanga Yoga Path

    July 2, 2015 / No Comments

    A friend posted this and I wanted to share it. Great advice for the Ashtanga journey from David Swenson   * I want you to understand, the Ashtanga Yoga can be practiced for the rest of your life. You can enjoy this practice.   About Yoga * This mat should be the place we come to free ourselves from all the stresses of the world. Don’t make it another place to be stress to you. * The mat is like a loving mother; The practice is a loving place. * If you enjoy your practice today, you will want to practice tomorrow. No one has to tell you. * Keep…

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    Pose of the Week: Eka Pada Sirsasana

    May 17, 2014

    Yoga Sutras for Modern Day Life: Insidious

    August 1, 2016

    Ashtanga Adaptability: Practicing With A Knee Injury

    November 4, 2014
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Reblogs,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Uncategorized,  Videos,  Yoga Philosophy,  Yoga Sutras

    Asteya: Stealing a Yoga Practice

    June 24, 2015 / No Comments

    Photo above by Wanda Koch   When our culture (our media, our power structures, our society) says, “people who look like you shouldn’t expect to have a life like that,” we’re stealing. Stealing from people capable of achieving more, and stealing from our community as well-Seth Godin   I feel blessed to have started yoga with my Atlanta teachers. In my 5 or so years of working with them. Never once did anyone tell me that I could not do anything. There were never any talk about the short falls of my anatomy. There were never any talks about disadvantages of my body or body type. The message was always…

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    Ashtanga Adaptability: Practicing With A Knee Injury

    November 4, 2014

    Muscles Feeling Tight?

    October 13, 2015

    For Those Suffering From Yoga Injury: Success Is Not a Straight Line

    April 27, 2015
  • Ashtanga Quotes,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Uncategorized,  Yoga Philosophy

    Why It Is Important To Be Uncomfortable in Yoga

    June 23, 2015 / 7 Comments

    One reason why ascetic paths were set is simply because of this: you start doing things that are naturally not comfortable for you. If you have to do something that you do not like, you can only do it consciously. There is no other way to do it. Things that you like, you can do compulsively, but things that you do not like, you can only do consciously. That is why the ascetic path. You start doing everything consciously. There is no other way to be. You are practicing how to be conscious in various situations in your life-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Yoga is supposed to wake you up-Peg Mulqueen  …

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    Yoga Sutras for Modern Life: Every Pose is a Lesson

    July 5, 2016

    Yoga Sutras For Modern Day Life: The Yoga Is Within You

    February 20, 2016

    Is Sharath getting up at 12:45AM?

    February 17, 2014
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Videos

    Pose of the Week: Garbha Pindasana to Kukutasana

    June 22, 2015 / No Comments

              How To Do Garba Pindasana & Kukkutasana    

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    Pose of the Week: Eka Pada Sirsasana

    May 17, 2014

    Pose of the Week: Baddha Konasana

    June 30, 2015

    Pose of the Week: Bakasana

    April 19, 2015
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Pose How To,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Videos

    Pose of the Week: Urdhva Dhanurasana

    June 18, 2015 / No Comments

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    Talking Ashtanga Yoga With David Garrigues!

    May 22, 2015

    The Lesson, Not the Event

    July 5, 2018

    Pose of the Week: How To Do Marichyasana C

    April 13, 2015
  • Alignment and Injuries,  Ashtanga Adaptability,  Teaching Ashtanga,  Videos

    Pose of the Week: Ubhaya Padangusthasana

    June 9, 2015 / No Comments

      How To Do Ubhaya Padangusthasana  

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    Pose of the Week: Shalabhasana

    December 22, 2015

    The Most Common Transition Mistakes of Primary Series

    June 6, 2015

    Pose of the Week: Urdhva Dhanurasana

    June 18, 2015
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