If you want to study deeper into the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga System but don’t live near a teacher or have a very unusual schedule where it is easier if you set your own times of practice and study…then try our new on-line teacher training and deepening your personal practice training!! We send you a manual …
By Anni Tamminen ~ Anni is a dedicated yoga student, friend and AYP photographer! She wrote this beautiful synopses of Ashtanga for the teacher training so I wanted to share it with everyone. Thanks Anni! During the TT, lovely smiles! Answering the question ‘what is Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga’ is not necessarily as simple as one …
Always a gift to have Ron Reid and Marla Meenakshi Joy in Paris! I met Ron in 1995 when I took my very first yoga class and it is astonishing how he has something inspiring to share each time I see him, even more than 20 years later! Marla gave us so much great advice …
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In this video Linda gives some ideas of how to help your yoga student find the base of support for the headstand and then help them into the pose, if they are ready. How to know if they are ready? They need to be able to be strong in the base of support, without any …
When we start the intermediate series of Ashtanga Yoga we notice that it can teach us a lot about the primary series that we thought we had ‘mastered’. For example, Shalabhasana, the second pose of the intermediate series (not to mention a pose that is done much earlier in many other forms of yoga), teaches …
Enjoy the moment – don’t rush through the pose 🙂 ! Upward Facing Dog is a pose we do dozens of times in our daily yoga practice. It feels great to open the front of the body and engage the back of the body, ahhh. In this video I’m trying to explain that unfortunately …
A demonstration of different ways to adjust forward bends in a way that ‘says’ something about the pose to the practitioner. Helping the yoga student learn how to find the subtleties of the pose for their own bodies.
Do you believe that mula bandha makes your limbs stronger? Try this and you will believe 🙂 Mula Bandha is a key to keeping our bodies strong and safe in the yoga asanas. As well, it helps bring the energy up the spine while keeping the heat inside the body, triggering us to sweat and …
There is a lot of talk about the Psoas or the Iliopsoas muscles around the yoga community however, it is an often more difficult to understand muscle than we like to make out. We like to blame a lot of things that we cannot do on a ‘tight psoas’ but the reality is, our bodies …
Sitting forward bends are a big part of the Ashtanga Yoga system. However, with a large portion of the society living more sedentary lives, when they arrive to their yoga class they are not at all ready to move into a seated forward bend. What, more often than not, ends up happening is that they …