Ashtanga vinyasa yoga

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a static and dynamic practice comprising 6 sequences of fixed asanas. Static asanas (postures held) and dynamic Vinyasas (movements synchronized with the breath) link the postures together. Dynamic does not mean fast: breathing is slow and movements are slow. The sequences that became a practice were developed by T. Krishnamcharya in the 1930s for K. Pattabhi Jois and others. Pattabhi Jois and other teenagers of his age. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois then taught what had been passed on to him, and it became a fixed method that has been widely disseminated throughout the world. 

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The foundation of the practice is based on 3 places of action called Tristhana:

 

• Breathing

• Asana (Postures)

• Drishti (gaze)

 

These cover three levels of purification: body, nervous system and mind. They are always performed in conjunction with each other. These three tools transform asana (physical) practice from a simple bodily exercise into a total mind-body experience. Doing sequences of postures does not mean practicing yoga - it requires much more than that, there must be total involvement of the being.

 

There are 6 Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga series. Most practitioners get all the benefits of the first two series, and if necessary go on to the advanced A, B, C and D series, but all levels of practice will lead to what you need to understand.

 

This is not all, and whatever the history of this practice, ancient or otherwise. Above all, you need to put quality and accuracy into it, so that it doesn't become a blind, mechanical belief, but that intelligence develops for a higher cause.