by Gregor Maehle | May 25, 2019 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
I’m a lifelong Ashtanga practitioner. Well strictly speaking I’m practising for around 30 years but I consider it lifelong because I think if there was something that would have made me stop I would have likely found it by now. As a lifelong Ashtanga practitioner I...
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 | Feb 12, 2019 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga
This article is a follow-up on the last one which covered Mula Bandha. There need not be any ambiguity about Uddiyana Bandha at all. There is nothing elusive about it at all. There are two vastly different types of Uddiyana which are sometimes mixed up. One utilizes...
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...
