Dear friends, here are some quotes of Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois. We hope you will find them inspiring. These simple statements clarify the essence of Ashtanga Yoga. “Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.” “So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your…
Dear friends, there is no doubt that yoga is most important aspect of our life as when we practice we live. And there is not a surprise that even bears offers us their modifications of Ashtanga asanas. Upavishta Konasana B is most popular among bears : “Upavishta Konasana A” is also offered: …
Dear yogis! We want to share with you the benefits of pink Himalayan salt, we use it ourselves and we think the below information would be interesting for you. Once upon a time (a couple of hundreds of millions of years ago) crystallized sea salt beds, now deep within the Himalayans, were covered by lava.…
Full moon days and new moon days are considerate as rest days in Ashtanga Yoga Tradition. What is the reasoning behind this? Pattabhi Jois was a student at the Marajas Pathashala (Sanskrit College in Mysore) and then he was the Professor of Yoga there from 1937 to 1973. Sanskrit College was closed each month for…
Squatting toilets sometimes leave confused westerns or people from “developed countries”. We used to think that sitting toilet facility is an attribute of civilization. Squatting toilet requires one to take a squatting posture to proceed with motion where knees and hips should be sharply bent and buttocks should be close to the ground. This type…
Its a a last month of durian fruit season here in Thailand and of course yoga practitioners dont miss a chance to fulfill their needs in nutrition! But only true gastronome can really appreciate and enjoy this very special fruit. Weather you love durian or hate it and there is no any other option. This…
Today 31st July 2015 is full moon and this day is marked as special day for ashtangis all over the world as its birth day of Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009). Guruji’s birth date is understood as auspicious in the lineage of Ashtanga Yoga since the full moon of July each year marks the celebration…
WOW!!!! Now we have one more timing for dedicated Ashtanga practitioners. Monday to Saturday The Shala is opened for self practice at 5.40 am where any student can join the teacher for the yoga practice at sunrise. At this time there is no interaction of the teacher, there is no adjustment but its the…
Dear friends! We are happy to announce that finally we finished the video of reviews about our activity at the Shala. Our students kindly gave interviews where they gave honest appraisal of TAYSP and we are very thankful or that. We tried to make this video maximum funny and honest. We did the first performance…
