SF Ashtanga Yoga School

Let’s soften together. Interactive Mysore 7-9am PST every Tues & Th- through The Mindful Body’s diverse online platform https://themindfulbody.com/yoga-schedule/

To all the struggling yoga teachers out there... your teacher Krishnamacharya also had to struggle financially to seed Yoga into this suffering world. So thank ...you everyOne. As my Mother said to me, and I say to you don’t let anything hold you back. You are doing great and necessary work. . As a young family man and struggling yoga teacher Krishnamacharya would host yoga demonstrations with his children to explain to the public what is Yoga. The children on the photo are two eledest Krishnamacharya's daughters: Pundarikavalli and Alamelu. He was then an employee with the Maharaja of Mysore around 50 years old. Soon he would be locked out of his own Yoga Shala when the politics changed and we saw the end of the Maharaj and British raj end. He then went to Madras with his young family and continued to teach in the traditional way... relationship with students one to one. He could at any time have taken important jobs offered to him by top institutions because he was he was a highly qualified scholar and professor. He chose instead to remain in poverty committed to Yoga teaching to the world because he knew, as a scholar and deeply informed spiritual practitioner of Veda that Yoga was vital, even necessary to spiritual / religious life. See more

Let’s get strong together! Join in for Interactive Mysore 7-9am PST, Tuesday’s & Thursday’s.... https://themindfulbody.com/yoga-schedule/

Wise words from Pema...

The Mindful Body is offering free de-stressing classes today and tomorrow. Join me for a free 1/2 hour of grounding breathing tomorrow 8am PST. www.themindfulbodysf.com for details

This is the 9th and last day of the Navratri festival in which the deity Maa Siddhidatri is honored as the final form of the Goddess Durga or Parvati. It is said she removes ignorance, assists in achievements and bestows 8 supernatural powers through the Siddhis. Jai Ma!

Join tomorrow and every T,Th 7-9am and Sundays 8-10am PDT for Interactive Mysore Classes which include a free practice consult outside of class...link in bio