by Gregor Maehle | Mar 16, 2019 | Ashtanga Yoga, Audio/Video, Teaching
Here is my podcast episode on Peg Mulqueen’s Ashtanga Dispatch: Amongst others we covered the following subjects: if yoga wants to help heal societal and personal problems, then it must become a vehicle for dismantling hierarchical structures. any relationship between...
by Gregor Maehle | Mar 7, 2019 | Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
A thought-provoking article from Guy Donahaye, editor of “Guruji – A Portrait Through the Eyes of his Students”. Guy reflects on whether we are really looking at a spiritual lineage or rather a cleverly marketed family business. In this groundbreaking...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Feb 16, 2019 | Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
New Podcast with Monica Ashtanga Yoga – Lost in Translation The Ashtanga Vinyasa system is a great starting point and it’s only an experienced teacher who can really gauge whether that person is or isn’t a good person to modify things. Perhaps this is where it’s...
by Gregor Maehle | Jan 18, 2019 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
I have repeatedly been asked to shed some light onto the “elusive bandhas”. I’m surprised that they are still considered elusive. I have written about the bandhas extensively in my 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2013 textbooks and had assumed that this had laid any elusiveness...
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 | 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...
