ashtanga at yogaworks

corporate yoga ~ so it goes

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Mysore Intermediate Class, Mysore, India. Photo care of Govinda Kai. Just when it seemed they’d gone silent on our requests and the decision was final, we learned they won’t be canceling Tuesday-Thursday Mysore. It doesn’t feel like much a victory, though, as it’s coming at our instructor’s expense. So YogaWorks puts its clients before its [...]


ashtanga uprising. who cares?

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Many thanks to Govinda Kai for use of his image (Gurubanda) “So do yoga at home twice a week. Or sleep past 5am like a normal person and skip it,” you say. “Get over it. Look at what’s going on in the world and you complain about this?” No, no, no. That’s not the point. [...]


corporate yoga and what you’d imagine

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I practice a style of yoga called Mysore, the traditional style of Ashtanga. I wrote a bit about how I came to this practice in the last post if you are curious, so I won’t go into it again here. We practice six days a week, early in the morning. We practice daily not only [...]


how to find a good yoga studio

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I don’t talk about my own practice much here, but it’s time. For two reasons: because when my students leave Columbia, they always ask, and because of the happenings at the studio where I practice. My own yoga has always shaped my teaching, and it’s taken its share of twists and turns over the years. [...]