Why Astanga yoga Mysore practice?

Why Mysore style Astanga yoga practice? People come to yoga from all different backgrounds, and it is a highly personal practice. Ultimately the fruits must be experienced, not explained, and what is most worth expressing often escapes definition. However, some of the common benefits of regular practice include:

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  • Light and energized physical feeling
  • Replenishes lost energy and life force to the body
  • Calm mind, improved concentration, focus and awareness
  • More positive and balanced outlook to everyday life and life situations
  • 
Well-tested therapeutic tools for stress and pain
  • Improves quality and consciousness of breath
  • Makes physically fit, and keeps both body and mind youthful, fresh and powerful
  • Offers an effective and supportive practice for any activities and goals in your life
  • Helps to manage the ups and downs of life with equanimity
  • Functions as an effective supplementary practice for sport and physical activities
  • Regular practice is a genuine path towards meeting your true self, where you are happy and already content with the present moment, as it is

Why Mysore practice?

  • You get individual attention and work one-on-one with a qualified teacher
  • You will develop and internalize a logical practice that follows you anywhere you go
  • Private instruction within a group setting helps you to improve and grow where you need it most.
  • You can show up anytime within the class hours, whenever it suits you
  • Mysore style practice allows the body and mind to adapt to the changes on its own pace
  • It cultivates a meditative experience, and leads to a natural self-practice
  • One class is for everybody

We encourage to commit to minimum of 2-3 times per week in order learn the technique and sequence correctly and to maximise the benefits of the practice.

”Do your practice and all is coming.” ― Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

”Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.” ― Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

"Astanga yoga is 99 percent practice, one percent theory." ― Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

”Everyone can practice Astanga yoga. Except lazy people.” ― Sri R. Sharath Jois

"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is." ― Bhagavad Gita

“The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.” ― Bhagavad Gita

“Asana practise is for 2 hours. Yoga practise is for 24 hours.” ― Sri R. Sharath Jois

”When the mind is quiet, the asana is correct.” ― Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

”This is not a gym, you are not here to work out. You are here to bring peace to yourself, to know who you are.” ― Sri R. Sharath Jois

”With practice anything is possible.” ― Sri R. Sharath Jois

“The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.” ― Bhagavad Gita