Mysore Method

Learn to take responsibility for your yoga practice... This is a time-honored method of teaching ashtanga yoga. This method receives its name from the city in which it originated and is still practiced. Sri K Pattabhi Jois, our teacher, lives and teaches in Mysore, India at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute (link).

Ashtanga Yoga is an ancient system of Yoga that has been passed down from teacher to student, one at a time. In this way, we continue to honor the purity of the practice. The student will receive individual attention, work at their own pace, enjoy the meditative qualities and gain an appreciation for their own practice. Instructors will help with asanas by providing hands on adjustments as well as reminding you of sequencing if you forget. As you progress in the practice the instructors will teach new asanas to add to your ever growing yoga practice! In this way each student will work deeper into postures slowly enabling memorization of asana sequencing and allowing the body to gradually adapt to the practice.

In an interview with Sri K Pattabhi Jois (Guruji), he was asked what is the perfect asana and how do you perfect asana. His reponse, "'Sthira sukham asanam (YS 2.46).' Perfect asana means you can sit for three hours with steadiness and happiness, with no trouble. After you take the legs out of the asana, the body is still and happy. In the method I teach, there are many asanas, and they work with blood circulation, the breathing system, and the focus of the eyes (to develop concentration)...This is the original teaching, the ashtanga yoga method. I've not added anything else. These modern teachings, I don't know...I'm an old man!" From Joyful Living, Jan/Feb 1994

The Mysore program is an empowering way to create and sustain your own practice, no matter where you are in your life's adventure.

Moon Days 2008
Ashtanga yoga practitioners should not practice on the days of the new or full moon. The day you rest is the day of your regular practice time nearest the new or full moon

new moon full moon

	January 8 (Tuesday)		July 18 (Friday) *Sri K. Pattabhi Jois 93rd birthday
	January 22 (Tuesday)		August 1 (Friday)
	February 6 (Wednesday)		August 16 (Saturday)
	February 20 (Wednesday)		August 30 (Saturday)
	March 7 (Friday)		September 15 (Monday)
	March 21 (Friday)		September 29 (Monday)
	April 5 (Saturday)		October 14 (Tuesday)
	April 20 (Sunday)		October 28 (Tuesday)
	May 5 (Monday)		November 12 (Wednesday)
	May 19 (Monday)		November 27 (Thursday)
	June 3 (Tuesday)		December 12 (Friday)
	June 18 (Wednesday)		December 27 (Saturday)
	July 2 (Wednesday)