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YOGA PROGRAM

What Is Ashtanga Yoga?

This method of yoga involves synchronizing the breath with a
progressive series of postures—a process producing intense internal heat and purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, a light strong body and a calm mind. This method has been practiced for thousands of years and has been used to train the military.

“If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hearafter – if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the self.”
- Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

Dana is a student of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, as were her other teachers, Tim Miller, David Swenson and Richard Freeman who all began training with guruji in the 1970’s. She is trained in teaching this system safely and true to the principals as passed on through the guruji. Students of the system are expected to maintain a regular practice and memorize the system from the first vinyasa. Dana believes this is a rewarding system as it is uniformly develops the body and is progressively more beneficial to the nervous system.

At Cho’s academy our advanced hatha classes are based in Ashtanga yoga.

The ancient system of Ashtanga yoga was taught by Vamani Rishi in the yoga Korunta. This text was imparted to Sri T. Krishnamacarya in the early 1900’s by his guru Rama Mohan Brahmachaya in a cave in Tibet. Later the practice was passed down to Sri K. P. Jois during the duration of his 25 year study with Krishnamacharya in 1927. In 1972 the first Americans traveled to Mysore India to study Ashtanga yoga
with S K P Jois and brought the practice back to California. It has since spread all over the world with headquarters in Mysore where Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his family run the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute.