by Gregor Maehle | Jan 20, 2018 | Audio/Video, Teaching
This interview was made by the Brussels-based documentary film maker, Jaimie Lee. She is currently working on a project called The Yoga Industry, which deals with how current mainstream yoga may have lost the plot and what could be done about it (my wording). To see...
by Gregor Maehle | Dec 23, 2017 | Audio/Video, Teaching
In this little clip I am talking about my favourite teaching format:...
by Gregor Maehle | Dec 8, 2017 | Audio/Video, Teaching
In this video Gregor speaks about svadharma, becoming a vehicle for a greater intelligence and how to prepare for...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 28, 2017 | Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching, Yoga Philosophy
I.31 The obstacles to yoga surface as anxiety and depression and unsteadiness of body and breathing pattern. From those symptoms we can gauge that the various obstacles, some of which were listed in sutra I.30, are present. The obstacles don’t just stop at...
by Gregor Maehle | Sep 16, 2017 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
In this article I have described Karandavasana in a way that it can be learned without a teacher lifting us up from the floor. While this may provide good exercise for the teacher I don’t think that it does much towards the student being able to perform the...
by Gregor Maehle | Aug 18, 2016 | Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching, Yoga Philosophy
Shanna Small from the Ashtanga Picture Project interviewed me on svadhyaya. This important term, that occurs several times in the Yoga Sutra is usually translated as ‘self-study’ but in yoga the term is narrowly defined and has important connotations. Q: I, like many...
