Health Yoga Life Yoga instructor Siga Bielkus demonstrates Sun Salutation A, a sequence performed 5 times at the beginning of each Ashtanga class. Sun Salutation A is a common sequence in other yoga ...

In Ashtanga yoga, you perform the same set of poses, in the same order, for the same breath count. Benefits of Ashtanga yoga include improved well-being, increased strength, and a calmer mind.

As they were originally composed, the eight steps of Ashtanga yoga are called Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi. Dr. Patel explains each of these in detail. The ...

Six established and strenuous pose sequences - the primary series, second series, third series, and so on - practiced sequentially. Ashtangis move rapidly, flowing from one pose to the next with each ...

This is the Eight Limbed salutation or Ashtanga Namaskara asana means eight points of contact with the mat: both feet, knees, palms, chest, and chin (or forehead). Hence the name Ashtanga Namaskara.

The Royal Path is Patanjali’s comprehensive Yoga protocol devised two-thousand years ago in India to target body, mind, and spiritual refinement. Even then, the need to be mindful of oneself as a ...