Ashtanga vinyasa yoga

Ashtanga yoga
FounderK. Pattabhi Jois
Established1948
Practice emphases
Employs Vinyasas, connecting movements
Related schools
Iyengar yoga

Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of classical Indian (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 (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 vinyasa yoga has given rise to various spinoff styles of power yoga.

  1. ^ "Ashtanga Yoga Background". Ashtanga Yoga. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  2. ^ "Ashtanga Yoga". Yoga Journal. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  3. ^ Lewis, Waylon (18 June 2009). "Pattabhi Jois, Founder of Ashtanga Yoga, Passes Away at Age 93". Huffington Post.
  4. ^ "Mysore Style". Jois Yoga. 17 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.