Sharath Tour Dubai 2025

 

April 5-9 Dubai info here https://sharathindubai.com/

Sharath Tour 2025 Sydney

 

March 11-16 info here https://yogastudio.net.au/sharathsydney2025/

Ashtanga Yoga Home Practice Kit

You'll need:
Practice Space
Practice Surface
Comfortable clothing
Yoga Mala book

Method:
1.  Tristhana - Focus on breathing (through the nose, around the ribs), squeezing anus, concentrating the gaze
2.  When not to practice - first 3 days of menstruation, sick with fever, saturday or sunday, full/new moon day

What to practice -
Surya Namaskar A 1-5 times and last three asanas each day until you can keep the tristhana the whole time.  If you can maintain that for at least a week, then add the next element, Surya Namaskar B.
Repeat Surya Namaskar A 1-5 times and Surya Namaskar A 1-3 times and last three asanas each day until you can keep the tristhana the whole time.  If you can maintain that for at least a week, then add the next element, padangusthasana and padahastasana.
Keep going like this and eventually get yourself to a teacher!

Home Practice Support

What to do if you can't make it to a Shala everyday.

Establish a relationship with a living person.
Ideally with just one.
Drop in when you can.
Workshops and retreats.

Create a space.
Clean, distraction free.
Regular time of day.
Quality, not quantity.

In the meantime.
Yoga Mala.
Sharath DVD
Sharath CD

Should I practice if (continued)... by Elise Espat

I don't have very much time?
Yes.  Do what you have time for.

I'm running late?
Yes.  See above.  Quality, never quantity.

I don't have a local shala and I've never established an Ashtanga practice?
Yes.

I don't have a local shala but I do have an established practice?
Yes.

Pinto bean hummus with beet & avocado salad, chapati, and rice

This simple dinner is delicious and easy to prepare.


Pinto bean hummus

• Pinto beans (drained of liquid)
• Tahini
• Lemon
• Salt
• Olive Oil 
• Paprika

Place pinto beans and tahini in blender and blend playing with ratios until desired consistency is reached.  Add lemon and salt to taste.  Blend until smooth.  Garnish with olive oil and paprika.

 Beet & avocado salad

• Red cabbage
• Beets
• Avocado
• Lemon
• Pomegranate seeds
• Olive Oil

Slice red cabbage super-thin and place in bowl.  Shred beets and add to bowl.  Slice avocado.  Add poegranate seeds.  Add queeze of lemon and olive oil.

Rice

• Water
• Rice

1 cup rice to two cups water in pan.  Cover and bring to boil.  Turn down low until fully cooked. 

Chapati

• 2 cups Wheat flour
• 1 cup Water
• Salt to taste
• Oil

Place wheat flour in bowl.  Slowly add a little water and knead.  Add a little more water and knead.  Keep going like this until similar to play-dough adding more or less water as necessary.  Set aside for at least a half hour and even overnight in the fridge.  Turn on skillet.  Dust surface with flour.  Pinch of golf ball size of dough.  Roll into ball and then press down on surface.  Roll it out.  Putoil in pan.  Place rolled out dough in pan and let cok until medium sized bubbles begin to form.  Flip.  Let it puff up for a little bit.  Serve.

The Yogic Diet - 3 Gunas

Sattvic (pure) foods
Vegetables -
Fruits - fresh, dried, pure juice
Protein -legumes, nuts, seeds
Grains - corn, barley, wheat, unpolished rice, oat, millet, quinoa
Herbs -
Natural sweeteners - honey, molasses, maple syrup, apple juice concentrate
Dairy - milk, butter, cheese, yogurt


Rajasic (overstimulating) foods
Vegetables - onions, garlic, radishes
Stimulants/intoxicants - coffee, tea, tobacco,
Heavily spiced/salted
Chemicals
Food eaten on the run
White sugar
Soda
Prepared mustard
Pungent spices
Anything excessively hot, bitter, sour, or saline


Tamasic (putrified) foods
meat, fish, eggs
intoxicants, alcohol
stale, rotten, decomposed, unclean, underripe, overrripe, fermetned, burned, fried, barbequed, reheated, canned, processed, prepared, mushrooms, vinegar, overeating (overeating sattvic foods makes them tamasic)

Additional considerations
Factory farming and dairy...




References
Sivananda Yoga Cookbook