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September 2024
Nice 17 minute Accessory Workout for Ashtangis

3 Rounds- 30 Sec between sets
Bent Over Rows x 12
Front Raises x 12
Goblet squats x 12
Pull Throughs x 12
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Our most recent transitions workshop went great. You can catch the replay on @ashtanga.tech — Our next intensive is applied functional anatomy for practice and asissting, and that's Sept 28/29!!
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August 2024
One of the things I love about being a yoga coach is that I get to work with people from all walks of life interested in bettering themselves. Personal mastery is a pursuit with many faces, and essential if we wish to help elevate our greater community. Its a real gift to be a collaborative partner with folks on the pursuit, and I’m not so evolved that I dont still feel honored and excited to celebrate the success. I love working with people to find their awesomeness. Thanks for sharing this journey, @mikematspace !!!
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The opposite of entropy is negentropy — think negative entropy. Negentropy refers to order, structure, or organization within a system. While entropy represents disorder, randomness, and decay, negentropy is associated with the creation of order and complexity.

In practical terms:
- In living systems, negentropy is the process by which organisms maintain structure and order (like cells organizing and functioning properly).
- In information theory, negentropy can represent organized, predictable, or highly informative data.

While entropy naturally increases, processes that introduce energy, structure, or organization (like in living organisms or engineered systems) work against entropy by generating negentropy.

Here’s what’s really interesting for Ashtanga practitioners, I think: the more isolated a system, the more likely entropy is to arise. So the question becomes:

How do we fuel our practice and make it more and more open while also allowing for enough isolation to get an unpredictability of emergence that takes us to something greater than the sum of our parts?

I believe it is viewing our whole life as interconnected, and I think that’s the magic of the yoga of synthesis, the great yoga revolution from the last century that is slowly being lost this century.
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✎ Essay · Science and Tech

Prana and the Bathtub: Systems Thinking for the Ashtanga Practitioner

In our practice, we’re not just trying to keep the tub full. We’re learning to live in balance, where the ebb and flow of prana supports us as much as we support it. It’s not about avoiding leaks but recognizing that the small, subtle drains often compound our stress more than a single big crisis. The practice guides us in patching those leaks with awareness, restoring a harmonious flow where life feels less like a constant emergency and more like a nurturing partnership In our practice, we’re not just trying to keep the tub full. We’re learning to live in balance, where the ebb and flow of prana supports us as much as we support it. It’s not about avoiding leaks but recognizing that the small, subtle drains often compound our stress more than a single big crisis. The practice guides us in patching those leaks with awareness, restoring a harmonious flow where life feels less like a constant emergency and more like a nurturing partnership. The goal isn’t to always be on alert, like the little Dutch boy at the dam. Instead, we want to be more like the Indigenous stewards of land and water—understanding that the flow is only a problem when it’s out of balance. Otherwise, it’s a beautiful exchange, where prana nourishes us as much as we nourish it. This isn’t crisis management; it’s living in relationship.

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✨ If you know a yoga teacher who’s facing burnout, it’s important to remind them that they’re not alone. Teaching can be incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with its challenges. ❤️

Encourage your friend to prioritize self-care and reflect on their personal practice’s deeper values. 🧘‍♀️✨ Revisiting foundational teachings from yoga texts can reignite passion and provide valuable insights. 🌱

Let’s support each other in exploring strategies for managing stress and preventing burnout— help each other advocate for a less toxic industry, back off when your suffering burnout from system dynamics, and come back together to make sure that our talents combined helped everyone involved come out on top.

Together, we can help our community thrive! 💪💖 #YogaCommunity #SelfCare #BurnoutPrevention #YogaTeachers #SupportEachOther
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How did i recover after getting hit by a car? Lifting with the @vitruvian trainer.

Adaptive Resistance via the electromagnetic platform is a game changer thats hard to explain but easy to see and feel. The results are, too.

We feature this cutting edge technology at @theyoga.club. Check out my latest article at michaeljoelhall.com/ to learn more about the benefits of adaptive resistance strength training.
in imageThe whole thing was wild, year one my wrist and shoulder, year two my ankle and my ribs.
I started training on the @vitruvian to help maintain my strength during recovery
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