by Dr Monica Gauci | Dec 7, 2018 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
One of my biggest frustrations with being associated with Ashtanga Yoga is that other yogis perceive that my asana practice and thereby the asana I teach must adhere to what is known as the ‘traditional’ form (I place tradition here in inverted comas to refer to the...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 21, 2018 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Audio/Video
You may have already come across this podcast but I’m a bit behind posting as I’m currently on a teaching tour across Europe and South America. With this latest podcast I seem to have again sparked controversy. Some ultra-orthodox and hard-line Ashtanga...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 26, 2018 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Ashtanga Yoga
Here is a new article that I recently wrote for the British Spectrum, where it appeared in this Autumn edition. This article deals with the benefits, individual limitations, risks, possible warm-ups and proper execution of leg-behind-head postures, chiefly Ekapada...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 12, 2018 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
As we have recently seen women are still discredited for taking a long time to speak out against powerful men like Brett Kavanaugh. In this article Karen Rain describes the slow and painful process to admit to herself that she had been victimized. She recounts the...
by Gregor Maehle | Jul 7, 2018 | Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
One of the last times that I sat in K. Pattabhi Jois’ afternoon student meeting (called “conference”) I looked at a photo of Ramana Maharishi that was hanging on the wall. I asked Jois, “how come Ramana is considered spiritually liberated but he hasn’t done any asanas...
by Gregor Maehle | Jun 23, 2018 | Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
When I first visited KP Jois house in late 1995 I did so with the desire to study classical Ashtanga Yoga. I interviewed him closely what sort of yoga he was teaching and he affirmed that it was indeed Patanjali’s yoga. That made me sign up with him. In the following...