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Ashtanga Workshop: Primary Series Practice w/ Elliot

January 25, 2018January 22, 2018 by Elliot

Ashtanga Workshop: Practice the Primary Series w/Elliot This Ashtanga Workshop for intermediate yogis is designed to help you transform your yoga practice into a more personal and healing ritual. Practice the Ashtanga Primary series with Elliot on the first Saturday of each month at EAST WIND YOGA starting February 3rd! Sign up below… Ashtanga Workshop designed … Read more

Krishna Pattabhi Jois

June 28, 2015 by Elliot

Krishna Pattabhi Jois is the founder of the Ashtanga style of yoga and one of the most influential yoga teachers to have brought yoga to the west through the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. I studied there in January 2015. Jois was born on a full moon in 1915 in Kowshika in southern … Read more

Adjusting Ashtanga

June 19, 2015 by Elliot

I am a huge fan of the Ashtanga practice. The intensity, the discipline, the mindlessness, and the routine of the sequential practice makes it like a second home for me. I always know that there are mornings where I can wake up and work without thinking, push myself without thinking of how, breathing without having to … Read more

Day 48 of Ashtanga Practice (Last Day)

April 4, 2015 by Elliot

My last day of practicing yoga with Saraswathi Jois was on Tuesday, but I am very happy to continue moving. I am very happy with how the trip and Saraswathi have added to my practice, though it definitely evolved much differently than I expected. Ashtanga can be grueling at time. I think this is one … Read more

Ashtanga Yoga and Yoga’s Modern Lineage

August 10, 2015March 19, 2015 by Elliot

What is Ashtanga Yoga? Ashtanga yoga sequences are a tradition expounded by Pattabhi Jois and is currently taught by teachers in different forms across the world. It is most likely that these sequences were originally created by Krishnamacharya for Pattabhi Jois, using knowledge he obtained from his guru, Brahmachari for short, who lived in a … Read more

Places of Interest in Gokulam

January 31, 2015January 31, 2015 by Elliot

A few of my upcoming blogs are going to be simply photo blogs. Pictures speak a thousand words

Gokulam City Center, you can see the rickshaw stand on the right, and the street leading to the Jois Shala in the center

Gokulam Coconut Stand, somewhat the center of the town

cell_tower_Gokulam — Gokulam Cell Tower, on top of the hill in Gokulam

Saraswathi's_Shala — Saraswathi’s Shala, this is where I practice. In the morning, there is no one outside and it is dark

Sri Chakra House, quiet and highly recommended. Great food, great company, drinkable water, Wifi. This is a great place to rest, relax and refuel.

Osho Meditation Center and Mystic school, called by many the “second best” yoga Shala in Mysore. I hope to study there in March

Gokulam Children's Center — Gokulam Children’s Center, really beautifully decorated, but I never see any children there

Ashtanga Institute, Mysore — Jois Shala of the Ashtanga Institute, Gokulam, Mysore

Personal Practice of the Ashtanga Primary Series

December 24, 2023December 30, 2013 by Elliot

I practice Ashtanga by myself sometimes. It can be liberating in ways that a studio can’t fulfill. Every time I complete the primary series, I feel so empowered and at peace. I learned the primary series from an instructor in Boston that I forget, but ever since then have felt like I have permission to … Read more