Yin Yoga

About this event

Ashtanga yoga gets its name from an ancient text called “The Yoga Sutras” written by Patanjali approximately 2000 years ago. “Ashtanga” or “eight limbs” refers to the path one is to take in order to reach the enlightened state of Samadhi. In order to make yoga available to more than just renunciates and ascetics, the seer Vamana Rishi, and then the more contemporary yoga master Krishnamacharya combined multiple limbs of the eight limb system in order to create a dynamic yet accessible practice. This practice, referred to as Ashtanga Vinyasa, unites a series of physical postures with regulated breathing and gazing points. The pose sequence itself is the product of great minds who understood intimately the purpose and potency of each posture and, therefore, the power of placing them where they did in the overall sequence.

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