The week in review: Albuquerque Ashtanga Yoga Shala resident teacher, Elise Espat, is teaching this week at The Yoga Shala in Winter Park, Florida.
More information and registration here.
PJ Heffernan is the current teacher in Albuquerque. PJ comes to us from Wisconsin where he teaches at his shala just west of
Milwaukee in Waukesha. Yes, that is the same guy from the documentary "Mysore Magic". He'll be here through next week so be sure to get ye to practice. View schedule and register here.
Tomorrow is a moon day. All classes are cancelled and do take rest from asana practice.
Some moon day reading from around the web:
“Through practicing asanas, your mind should change. That is the transformation that happens
within you….Then you are a true Ashtanga practitioner, not just bending your
body…Practice should not be just two hours, this practice must be for the whole
day, whole life…Then there will be meaning to your practice.”
- Sharath Jois, Krista Shirley's conference notes
"Don’t hurry, this practice take time, the more you try to rush
it, the more you will miss what it is actually about.... Everything
has its own time."
- Saraswathi
"It is very important to understand yoga
philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice
is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the
best."
- Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, "An Interview with K Pattabhi Jois: Practice Makes Perfect""Yoga teachers say: Practice once a week, and you’ll get sore. Practice
three times a week, and you’ll get FIT. Practice every day and you will
transform your life."
- The Purple Mat Blog"[Mysore] provides the space to be learn directly and almost
privately from a teacher, but within the context of a group environment.
A student is introduced to the practice at the appropriate pace for
them. Poses are taught in a way that is right for that specific body,
with its own limitations and strengths. It’s a very individualized
process, yet firmly rooted in a tradition and a community. Mysore offers
the opportunity to be inspired by other practitioners, of all levels,
without practice becoming a competition, since everyone is practicing
the poses that were given to them, at their own pace."
- Frances Harjeet
"It was harder NOT to practice actually. I realized then that you
could chop off my arm or leg and I would still practice. I don't do it
because I should. I do it irrationally because I love it.
- PJ Heffernan
