Ashtanga vinyasa yoga

This article is about a dynamic style of yoga poses popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois. For the eightfold yoga path, a system first described in Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras, see Ashtanga (eight limbs of 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.