Ashtanga Yoga with Ty Landrum

The Sweetness of Ashtanga

With Ty Landrum

Ashtanga Vinyasa is often mistaken for a discipline, a way of reshaping the body and controlling the mind with a rigorous sequence of forms. But through all the reaching and bending, the binding and twisting, this delusion begins to break down. The conceit of control slowly dissolves, and something remarkably sweet comes to the fore. It rises from the center of the body, holding our attention and warming us from the inside, with the irrepressible force of life.

In this workshop, we explore some ways of working within the Ashtanga Vinyasa system to invite that sweetness to rise.  We learn a number of techniques from the Hatha tradition that imbue yoga practice with real potency—tracing internal currents of breath, balancing patterns of sensation, visualizing subtle anatomy, and moving the body from the inside.  Through these techniques, we find deeper intimacy with the body,…