Back Ashtanga vinyasa yoga BCL Ащанга виняса йога Bulgarian Ioga ashtanga vinyasa Welsh Astanga-yoga Danish Ashtanga (Vinyasa) Yoga German Αστάνγκα γιόγκα Greek Ashtanga vinyasa yoga Spanish Astangajooga Finnish אשטנגה ויניאסה יוגה HE अष्टांग विन्यास योग Hindi
| Ashtanga yoga | |
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 yoga&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Larry_Schultz_with_Pattabhi_Jois.jpg) K. Pattabhi Jois with Larry Schultz, mid 1980s | |
| Founder | K. Pattabhi Jois |
| Established | 1948 |
| Practice emphases | |
| Employs Vinyasas, connecting movements | |
| Related schools | |
| Iyengar yoga | |
Ashtanga yoga (not to be confused with Patanjali's aṣṭāṅgayoga, the eight limbs of yoga) is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of medieval hatha yoga.[1] Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The style is energetic, synchronising breath with movements. The individual poses (asanas) are linked by flowing movements called vinyasas.[2]
Jois established his Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in 1948.[3] The current style of teaching is called "Mysore style", after the city in India where the practice was originally taught.[4] Ashtanga yoga has given rise to various spinoff styles of power yoga.
- ^ "Ashtanga Yoga Background". Ashtanga Yoga. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ^ "Ashtanga Yoga". Yoga Journal. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ Lewis, Waylon (18 June 2009). "Pattabhi Jois, Founder of Ashtanga Yoga, Passes Away at Age 93". Huffington Post.
- ^ "Mysore Style". Jois Yoga. 17 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.