New Skool Ashtanga

New skool ashtanga is offered Monday and Friday mornings from 8:00am to 9:30am as well as Tuesday afternoons from 4:00pm to 5:30pm. This is not your 90’s ashtanga. Poses are not “earned.” Practitioners are not “held back.” Obedience to an “ideal” is not rewarded. Perfectionism is recognized for what it is - a construct that kills creativity and love.

New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insideous competition around physical abilities and perpetuates shame when dictated expectations are not met. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities.

Like classic ashtanga, new skool ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. New skool ashtanga follows the same primary sequence of postures practiced in classic ashtanga primary series - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. And, like classic ashtanga, each posture is held for about 5 breaths and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. Practicing consistently and rhythmically in this way not only creates a regular frame of reference from which to observe the felt sense of the body-mind, but also helps build a self-guided yoga practice that can be practiced anytime and anywhere, without the assistance of a guide. This combination of heightened awareness and personal autonomy underlies the power of new skool ashtanga.

Unlike classic ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice. You're invited to practice along with us, and lead yourself in a way that resonates with your intellect and intuition. You’re invited to connect with your body and feel into it’s experience - to experiment, adapt, and modify your experience as you go - tuning in and tapping into your energy. In this way, new skool ashtanga is like a choose-your-own-adventure kind of experience! Initially, this might seem odd - and uncomfortable. Real freedom can feel weird at first. But, if you lean into the spacious connectedness created by this kind of individual and collective experience, you might feel more at ease practicing yoga like this than in an old school kind of way. So you pick! You decide how you'd like to practice. And together we'll all hold the space for new skool ashtanga.