astanga yoga
Astanga versus Ashtanga.
What’s with the missing H? Not much, in fact, nothing really exciting it is just a preference in translation. The ASH- is for westerners to pronounce the AS as ASH... so teachers started to spell is Ashtanga. Our teacher spells it Astanga.. that is how we learned it and that is just what we use. They are same styles of yoga.. just a different spelling. If you are sanskrit scholar this may interest you.
Astanga yoga is a system, a methodology if you will, to get your mind and body in the right place. Depending on who you talk to about Astanga, will determine what version of astanga you end up talking about. Are you talking about the system of Astanga poses? Or are you talking about a path that leads us all to good living regardless of what poses you do. We tend to lean towards both. Here at this studio we believe in balance. We love to practice Power Yoga in all its wonderful shapes and forms. when you come here you will discover that all our classes have a deep heart in the Astanga tradition of asana’s (poses) but we get a kick outta breaking rulz (especially grammar ones you can thank T’s high school creative writing teacher for that).
So there you go. If you practice here you gotta be open not rigid. If you practice here expect nothing... and we return the favor by not expecting anything of you but to just breathe. That is all we ask... please keep breathing...and the rest will fall into place.
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