ashtanga – Page 3

September 14, 2020
Simple Ways to Teach Ashtanga Yoga with a Trauma-Informed Lens

There are many reasons you may choose to teach Ashtanga from a trauma-informed lens. The stories of sexual assault regarding the father of Ashtanga Yoga, Pattabhi Jois, has left many ...

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Category: Practice
June 23, 2020
Healing Ashtanga Yoga Through Radical Unlearning and Co-Creation of Community

In the wake of the most recent and publicized murders of Black men and women at the hands of state-sanctioned systemic violence, seven years after the phrase was coined by ...

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June 3, 2020
Yoga Community, Your Love and Light is Not Working

Yoga community, that love and light you sent out, it’s not working. It didn’t make it to George Floyd as he fought to breathe with a White policeman’s knee on ...

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Category: Culture
October 8, 2019
Interview with Marie Belle

Yoga is the understanding that there is no separation. As a practice, I use movement, asana, meditation, and breath to step into that current of just knowing, being, and allowing ...

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Category: Culture
July 23, 2019
Demystifying the Mysore Method

I teach the Mysore method of Ashtanga Yoga. Have you heard of it? If you practice any yoga technique, you have probably heard of Ashtanga, but Mysore may be a ...

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Category: Practice
March 20, 2019
Moon Day – March 21st Full Moon

It brings me great joy to offer you our very first Omstars Moon Day Blog Series! I’m nervous, scared, excited, and all things – but you know what?! I decided ...

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Category: Practice
August 14, 2018
Parsvakonasana B Pose Guide

This standing twist of the Ashtanga standing sequence is rather complex with many moving parts. You may find that different teachers approach this pose differently, but each are aiming for ...

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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 13, 2018
Cut To The Feeling

In those classic Hollywood silent films, the big climax was always some exciting chase scene. The hero had lost something, and a mad dash ensues to get it back. Filmmakers of ...

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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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Category: Practice