Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga
In Karkur
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New Classes start May 5
Sunday & Thursday
10 - 11.30
Downstairs at Dyan Yoga Centre
Ha-Moshav St 69, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, 3706969
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Mysore Yoga Practice is a traditional step-by-step way to learn yoga, that involves developing your own unique routine, suited to your individual needs, and at your own speed.
A student’s practice develops gradually. It depends on repetition, memorization and progressive increase in flexibility and strength. But regular practice is needed. Practicing every day will get the best results but 3 times a week is the minimum required to make good progress.
NYC Shala 2014
Mysore practice allows you to receive individualized instruction, while practicing together with others in a group. So each student in the room has a unique practice that is guided and developed by the teacher - students practice together but independently of each other.
Students who practice Ashtanga are welcome to drop in. New students are invited to join our one month Ashtanga Foundations Program.
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SCHEDULE
Sunday & Thursday
10 - 11.45
COSTS
Monthly Unlimited - 500 INS
10 Class Card (valid for 3 months) 750 INS
Drop in - 80 INS (for students with an established Ashtanga practice)
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New students are invited to come and watch class and talk to me:
Just come between 10 and 10.30 any day.
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MORE ABOUT ASHTANGA YOGA
People often think of Ashtanga Yoga as a set series of postures, practiced in a particular way, but this is a misunderstanding. Every Ashtanga practice is unique.
Practice should be adapted to the individual, not the other way around! There are different body types, different needs, depending on age, gender, health, desire etc... For this reason, everyone’s yoga practice should be unique - and this is the basis of the Mysore Style of practice.
As Ashtanga Yoga became so popular and so many students started to attend classes, it became impossible to accommodate individual needs and increasingly, the practice became more standardized. But originally, the system was all about the quality of practice. Each student practiced differently, was taught differently.
ADJUSTMENTS
There are several ways to learn yoga and to deepen practice: some students like to learn through words, some want to see a demonstration and others respond best to physical touch.
Even though words can explain a lot, and looking at demonstrations can give you examples, every body is unique. How can you explain the way a posture should feel from the inside? Even if you say: "put your hand here and your foot there and now twist your body etc..." how can this compare with closing your eyes and surrendering to physical and energetic guidance of helping hands?
Adjustments are at the heart of traditional Ashtanga practice. As more and more students fill classes, there is less and less opportunity to experience this traditional way of learning.
FROM THE SOURCE
India is the birthplace of yoga, the source of yoga wisdom and practice. The 1000s year old system of Ashtanga Yoga was first explained at length by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra. Later, it was developed into a practice to help people in the modern world with the stresses and challenges we face today.
In the 19th century, a South Indian seeker traveled to Tibet in search of Yoga wisdom. His name was T Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya spent seven years absorbing knowledge from a yogi he met at the foot of Mt Kailash ( Sri Ramana Mohan Brahmachari) and brought it back to the southern Indian town of Mysore where he established a potent new tradition of yoga that gave birth to the modern flowering of yoga worldwide.
Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vini and Vinyasa Yogas were all born in Mysore.
According to Krishnamacharya, the source for his teachings on vinyasas was a book known as the Yoga Korunta. The YK was a commentary on the Yoga Sutra and explained the context of asana practice in the system of Ashtanga Yoga that Patanjali explains.
Postures were grouped into three categories - chikitsa bhaga (primary series) - for therapy and shodhana bhaga (intermediate) - for purification and sthira bhaga (advanced) - for steadiness. There was also a description of the vinyasa system and instructions on pranayama.
Mysore Style in the Modern day
Although yoga, in essence, has always remained the same, in practice it has evolved to suit the times, to suit the special challenges of the age. Our modern lifestyle and habits cause a great deal of pain and stress - and this is why the modern asana systems developed - we need stronger medicine today.
In the old texts, we find little reference to physical practices with a great emphasis on psychological practices - i.e. meditation. In the modern age, it is the reverse. Our physical problems are so big, that our psychological problems take a back seat.
But, an important insight we gain through yoga is that our physical issues are almost all created by our mental problems (decisions, desires, etc.). This is often hard for us to acknowledge, but is something we must realize if we want to improve our health and well-being.
