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Ashtanga Yoga is more than just a physical discipline. It is a way of life or rather a path to calm mind and pure soul. It is the harmonization of the breath with a series of postures that detoxify muscles and organs. Astanga Yoga involves a certain number of steps, through which a person attains a light and strong body as well as the composure that all of us so desperately desire.
Expansion of the Astanga Yoga Institute
Pattabhi Jois Yoga Institute of Mysore has gradually expanded to the various parts of the world. People in countries such as America, Britain, Japan, etc are attending Ashtang Yoga classes in the centers that have been opened there.
The Technique - The Sequence of the Six
The curriculum of the Astanga Yoga Institute consists of six standardized and graded routines. They range from introductory challenging formats to the ending sequences. Students have not yet mastered the ending sequences, comprising of the realization of the self or Enlightenment. However, the Astang Yoga methods taught by K. Pattabhi Jois do bring one quite close to the threshold of heaven and Enlightenment. The following steps are followed under the Ashtang Yoga taught at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute…
