Articles, reflections and resources from the Ashtanga Yoga Institute on the practice, tradition and transmission of yoga.
Off the tourist trail, Gingee is a spectacular, almost-abandoned site: four old forts perched on hills, in an extraordinary granite landscape of rice paddies and wild, monkey-filled vegetation.…
Read the articleUḍḍiyāna is a central support of yoga practice: it organises the abdominal space without…
Mūla Bandha is one of the discreet yet essential foundations of the postural practice…
Pūjā
a prayer ritual of worship of Aryan origin, which replaced the Vedic sacrifice (Yajna).Lire la définition →
Indian cuisine is wonderfully tasty. The goddess Annapūrṇā always inspires it — from anna (“food”) and pūrṇa (“complete,…
Yoga practice can easily be stripped of its sacred character, or reduced to a mere discipline of well-being…
In Ashtanga Yoga, practice is not merely a chain of postures: it rests on three supports gathered under…
This village, off the tourist trail, lies 48 km south of Mahābalipuram, before Merkanam, 6 km to the…
At the end of their training, the teachers trained at the Institute write a graduation thesis. Each one…
Vinyasa Yoga places rhythm at the centre of practice: rhythm of the breath, of the body, of the…
In Ashtanga Yoga, the gaze is never a detail: it orients the posture, gathers the attention and calms…
Pain directly questions the way we practise yoga: should we flee it, listen to it, understand it or…
In yoga practice, pain must never be ignored, but it deserves to be understood with precision. This letter…
When everything goes wrong, yoga can become a simple, concrete and deeply human inner support. This letter offers…
Aṣṭāṅga Yoga is not limited to a sequence of postures: it unites eight limbs that act together. Yama,…
Yoga reminds us that the body is at once a tool, a path, and sometimes a trap when…
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