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David Garrigues is doing an Ashtanga Yoga Workshop in Missoula

October 23rd - 25th, 2009, David Garrigues will be at the Yoga Fitness Center in Missoula, MT for an Ashtanga Yoga workshop involving an intro to the 2nd series that is open to all students (the section I'm most interested in), Pranayama, Vinyasa, and Restorative asanas, and a classic Mysore practice. David has a wonderful practice and a unique insight into Ashtanga that is very valuable. Ben and I had the pleasure of practicing alongside him when we went to Mysore, India. Please see the flyer above or call (406) 728-6770 for more info.


Love Your Mother Earth Festival

I went to the Love Your Mother Earth Festival to host an Ashtanga Yoga workshop and to perform Fire Staff & Fire Spitting with the Fireflys Troop this last weekend and had a great time camping up in the woods around Lolo Hot Springs. The LYMEF is basically a 3 day concert and camping festival. Here are a couple pictures that I took while I was hiking around.

A good description of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

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What characterizes ashtanga yoga is the dynamic interconnecting postures that create a sense of flow and movement between the static asanas of hatha yoga. There is also a particular type of breathing that is done with each movement. And the movements between the postures are just as important as the postures themselves.
Ashtanga yoga posturesa are a series of postures that are always done in the same order and performed with particular breathing patterns. The exact definition of vinyasa is movement synchronized with breath. The purpose of vinyasa is to purify the body by increasing circulation and body heat, leading to an increase in sweating. Vinyasa really facilitates flexibility, and tendon and muscle strength.

[From Ashtanga Yoga : gbridgetv.com]

Getting into Mysore and the Shala Recount

So I realized that I let a little too much time slip after getting into Mysore and I wanted to recount getting here and my first impressions of the Ashtanga Yoga Institute (aka The Shala). So this takes place a week ago:

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