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    Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of...
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    yoga guru who developed and popularized the flowing style of yoga as exercise known as Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. In 1948, Jois established the Ashtanga Yoga...
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  • flowing styles of modern yoga as exercise such as Vinyasa Krama Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, especially when movement is paired with the breath. This article...
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  • yoga, Vivekananda's popularisation of Ashtanga Yoga Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, a style of asana-based modern yoga founded and popularized by K. Pattabhi...
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    Asana (redirect from Yoga posture)
    traditional hatha yoga). Among Krishnamacharya's pupils were influential Indian yoga teachers including Pattabhi Jois, founder of Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, and B.K...
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    Jois created Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, which in turn led to Power Yoga; B. K. S. Iyengar created Iyengar Yoga, and defined a modern set of yoga postures in...
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  • Yoga is any of several forms of energetic vinyasa-style yoga as exercise developed in America in the 1990s. These include forms derived from Ashtanga...
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    Iyengar learnt yoga from Tirumalai Krishnamacharya at the Mysore Palace, as did Pattabhi Jois; Iyengar Yoga and Jois's Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga are thus branches...
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    aspects of Kundalini Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Anusara Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, and portions of movement sequences from Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Maintaining an internal...
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  • physical, ethical, and spiritual practice, combining a vigorous yoga as exercise, vinyasa-based physical style with adherence to five central tenets: shastra...
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  • Pattabhi Jois and B. K. S. Iyengar, into their worldwide Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Iyengar Yoga styles respectively. Tadasana is the basic standing asana...
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  • limb of yoga, pratyahara, concerning sense withdrawal, as well as the sixth limb, dharana, relating to concentration. In Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, each asana...
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    so are suitable for the more energetic styles such as hot yoga and Ashtanga vinyasa yoga; the trade-off is that they may be less comfortable and appear...
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    February 27, 2011) was an American yoga teacher who was a long-time student of the founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, K. Pattabhi Jois. Schultz is primarily...
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    the pose, used in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, is Supta Vajrasana. Laghuvajrasana, an advanced pose in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Iyengar Yoga, has the thighs...
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    evolved, including the precise Iyengar Yoga and Pattabhi Jois's energetic Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and its Power Yoga spinoffs. Spiritual styles also flourished...
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    close to the chest In Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, these three Bandhas are considered to be one of the three key principles of yoga practice. Mūla bandha is...
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    created modern day Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, and B. K. S. Iyengar, who created Iyengar Yoga, both learned Sun Salutation and flowing vinyasa movements between...
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  • and teaching yoga since 1995. He has completed Iyengar, Classical Ashtanga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher training. He has studied Vinyasa, Viniyoga,...
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  • style of yoga. 1948: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - Sri K. Pattabhi Jois 1963: Bihar School of Yoga - Swami Satyananda Saraswati 1960s: Sivananda Yoga - Swami...
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    popularizing the vigorous Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga style, B. K. S. Iyengar who emphasized alignment and the use of props in Iyengar Yoga, and by Indra Devi and...
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    Sarvangasana, or shoulder stand, specifically within the context of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Primary Series. The name comes from the Sanskrit words matsya (मत्स्य)...
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    with Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, a style of modern yoga using fluid transitions (vinyasas) between asanas. King (1999, p. 67): "Many westerners see yoga as a...
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  • S. Iyengar. Jois claimed to have used that as the basis of his Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system. The original text reportedly was not preserved, and its...
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  • combining breathing with movement; the style of yoga he created has come to be called Viniyoga or Vinyasa Krama Yoga. Underlying all of Krishnamacharya's teachings...
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    accused by at least 14 yoga students of sexual assault and rape. Yoga Journal accused K. Pattabhi Jois, founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, of making different...
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  • August 14, 1951) is an American teacher and author on the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga style of yoga as exercise. Tim Miller was educated at the University of...
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  • Mysore style (category Yoga styles)
    Mysore style of asana practice is the way of teaching yoga as exercise within the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga tradition as taught by K. Pattabhi Jois in the southern...
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  • Yoga Ashtanga yoga Ashtanga vinyasa yoga Bikram yoga Hatha yoga Iyengar yoga Kundalini yoga Siddha yoga Sivananda yoga Tantric yoga Viniyoga Vinyasa yoga...
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  • association with asana practice in some styles of yoga as exercise, such as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. "Ujjayi" (उज्जायी) comes from the Sanskrit prefix...
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