Yoga Spirals

The word yoga means many different things to different people. Different teachers and students practice it based on their disposition and need. Ashtanga Yoga is non monistic and non religious; it describes a universe that is split in two; one side material (sanskrit “prakriti”, dealing with matter), the other is spiritual (sanskrit “purusha”, dealing with spirit). According to Ashtanga Yoga, the misunderstanding of this true nature of phenomena is the root of nearly all suffering.

At this yoga school, teachers were trained in the lineage of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (as taught by Sri K Pattabhi Jois) primarily through the Seattle Ashtanga Yoga School (now defunct) by David Garrigues. Our adapted form of Ashtanga borrows methods from Iyengar, Desikachar, Yin, and various other lineages. The teaching of asana here is Indian born, and American raised; while utilitarian, it has stable roots in ancient practices and philosophies.

This school recognises and aligns with the victims of Sri K Pattabhi Jois, and we are not neutral in the matter. It is the goal of the shala not to perpetuate the needless violence of stereotypical Ashtanga Yoga, but instead to bring the great practice at the foundation of those teachings to people who desperately need authentic and real yoga in a world filled with nonsense.