8 Limbs Ashtanga Yoga

In Ashtanga Yoga, set series of postures are woven together using flowing movements to create one sequence. This sequencing of yoga postures is called Vinyasa. Each connecting move is synchronised with the breath to become a meditation in movement - like a sacred dance. The postures are designed in a specific order to realign and detoxify the body and nervous system. The practice develops a balance between strength and flexibility and improves cardiovascular fitness.

Focusing on the breath, the mind clears and becomes calm. An internal stillness develops within this exercise of dynamic movement. Deep relaxation results.

"Correct practice will give you the light and strong body of a lion"

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

Yoga is a Life Science.
From this practice of turning inward comes growth, insight and an understanding of our true Self, of life and of ourselves within this greater existence of life. Like a lotus flower, we have the opportunity to blossom from our depth and to openly and freely express our greatest potential and deepest beauty.

Rishi Vamana was a vedic seer who live approximately 4,000 years ago in India's Golden Age. He compiled the ancient scripture "The Yoga Korunta (Sequential Yoga)" which scientifically describes the complete system of Ashtanga Yoga. This Yoga was handed down through a long lineage of Masters.

The term Ashtanga Yoga is derived from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (500BC) 11.29 "Yoga has eight limbs" Ashtau-eight, anga-limbs. It eventually became lost in the dark age of Kali Yuga (the middle ages) and was rediscovered in the 1930s by the Sanskrit Professor and Yoga Master Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. Tirumalai Krishnamacharya assigned his principal student K. Pattabhi Jois to devote himself to the study, translation and teaching of this practice.

K. Pattabhi Jois is a Professor of Sanskrit and holds a degree in Indian Philosophy. At 90 years he continues to teach Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, South India.