Ashtanga Yoga – OmStars

March 28, 2022
Cultural Appropriation in the Ashtanga Yoga Community

It’s no longer considered ok to make fun of women, or the LGBTQ community, or other social or cultural identities like Black people or people of Chinese descent. So why ...

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March 7, 2022
Ashtanga Yoga: Everything You Need to Know

“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.” ― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic ...

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September 18, 2020
How Injury Brought Me Closer to the Purpose of Yoga

I attribute yoga taking over my life to the moment I started practicing Ashtanga yoga mysore style at Miami Life Center. It affected everything, not just the 90 minutes in ...

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May 26, 2020
Yoga Obstacles: Setbacks and Plateaus

Yoga is the effort full path, which entails a road with inescapable obstacles, plateaus, and setbacks. When we are facing a challenge, it is easy to disregard the valuable opportunity ...

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August 26, 2019
Ashtanga Home Practice Challenge

New Yoga Challenge coming to Omstars September 1st! With this challenge, you’ll get access to an amazing new course that’s designed to help you explore the Ashtanga Yoga practice from ...

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June 19, 2019
Interview with Angelique Sandas

I practice to learn about who I am, why I am that way, and to become the best version of myself that I possibly can. I teach because this practice ...

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Category: Culture
April 10, 2018
Why Yoga

Why do you practice yoga? A yogi is a seeker of the truth. Intention sets the tone for what kind of journey you‘ll have along the path of yoga. Align ...

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April 3, 2018
The Tristhana Training Ground: Breath, Gaze and Pose in Ashtanga Yoga

Life feels like it’s been going through a slow-motion upheaval for some months now. Relationships tumbled out of the place I thought they belonged. Teaching opportunities I hadn’t even imagined ...

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February 6, 2018
Ashtanga Yoga IS Hard—A Beginner’s Guide to How to Practice

There is no easy way to say this but the reality is that Ashtanga Yoga is in fact really hard. The longer you practice the more you forget what a ...

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