Working on building strength with special guest Michael Roike.

Charlie is working on his down dog – – but he's gotta work on that dristi!

Ordinary afternoon. Intermediate series. Firefly, and her many stages of life.

(that view tho)

A SISTER
FROM ANOTHER
MISTER SISTER
FROM ANOTHER
MISTER @ASHTANGANASHVILLE

more of this malarkey

@DCASHTANGA
#HOMEPRACTICECHALLENGE

UTTHITA HASTA PADANGUSTHASANA

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vinyasa class

HMU for a pass!
@dcfray
Yoga
tonight at 7pm

sped up 20x

sped up 20x

/so!/satisfying!/

easy does it, hall.

dancing can be fun.
try to have fun.

Didja hear about the rooster who came in first?

He got real cocky.

In December of 2021, I began two months of living in Mexico. My parents moved down to the Yucatán right before COVID hit— my brother and his lady lived down there first. It had taken forever to sell my parents home— and the future was looking bright. Then my brother died. Then Leigh died. And my folks were locked in and locked down.

On the one hand, I was glad they were safer there than here. On the other, I was presented with profound grief. Those months in Mexico, replacing my yearly sabbatical to India, provided time with my first and most influential teachers: my mom and dad.

Plus, yoga on their roof looks a lot like some of my other favorite and meaningful roofs.

Having a consistent practice helped anchor me when things were truly terrible. If you’d like to learn a simple set of practices that match your unique needs, feel free to DM.

11 months after wrist ❤️‍🩹,
my body whispered “come play,
it’s safe.” And I did. And it was. (gosh, @theyoga.club is beautiful.)

work be like

Word. Word.

Shelly brings me a lot of inspo.

Here’s some stuff I do in order to wrestle with the nature of reality and the infinite. It’s mostly stuff to affect physiological change towards general well being layered with meditation and mindset. These disparate systems encourage an emergence of something greater than the sum of their parts. It looks some kinda way.

Here’s some stuff I do in order to wrestle with the nature of reality and the infinite. It’s mostly stuff to affect physiological change towards general well being layered with meditation and mindset. These disparate systems encourage an emergence of something greater than the sum of their parts. It looks some kinda way.

Here’s some stuff I do in order to wrestle with the nature of reality and the infinite. It’s mostly stuff to affect physiological change towards general well being layered with meditation and mindset. These disparate systems encourage an emergence of something greater than the sum of their parts. It looks some kinda way.

@mikematspace

I promise, I'm not skipping leg day.

I lift as occupational therapy. I lift because it makes me feel affirmed in my masculinity. I lift because it helps combat negative mental chatter. I lift because I'm vain. I lift because there's more than one way to get kundalini to rise.

I understand that it's healthy for me to have an outlet for exercise that is seperate from my spiritual practice. Things get weird when I try to do mental gymnastics in order to feel good about my actual gymnastics. Remember: i'm vain. Ican just make exercise exercise and yoga yoga. I think it's a good idea for most, but athletes in particular.

Do you practice yoga and lift weights?

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.

thank you @jochetroche — youre always so supportive ❤️

This this this

hyggie x britney

Where do you see yourself in 10 years

I started working extensively with props in 2007 or so. Thats almost 20 years ago, now! There was a time when they were quite taboo in ashtanga circles for some reason. This is from my dear iyengar yoga teacher ian’s @ian_goa_yoga shala. He’s been at this more than 50 years and is one of my deepest inspirations. He is so far, but this love letter helps.

looking for iyengar yoga in the DMV?

check out @532yoga on sunday mornings!

❤️❤️ meanwhile, at the yoga club

my people at work

Yoga practice builds resilience— something i really encourage.

I’m sort of known for my resilience, which is a nice way of saying I’ve seen some sh*t and seem fairly well adjusted. I even got to write about resilience during times of political unrest for @yogajournal . I’m also known as well as my transparent, explicit approach to yoga and life.

I’m full of nonsense and laughter— with high concienciousness, and low agreeability. I help people understand yoga by becoming a team player— again, with high conscienciousness and low agreeability 😅😅 Independent thinkers who can be team players are like improv triple threats.

The secret to life is “Yes, and.”

Here’s my CV For the last half decade, including the trauma porn.

2020 Covid + RIP Brother & Sister-in-Law + first Functional Ashtanga training + Parents in lockdown in Mexico after moving w/brother & him dying.
2021 Opened @theyoga.club (omg no way)
2022 Evolved functional Ashtanga to Ashtanga Tech with Cory & Heather
+ Hit by car while biking + broken wrist and rib
2023 Turned 40
+ Hit by bicyclist and broken ankle and reinjured rib + huge success with peer support initiatives
2024 Quit Drinking and kept on rehabbing + changed my body radically (again) + took on the neighborhoods drug problems
2025 Infinite Possibilities

I’m the friendly neighborhood ashtanga yoga teacher, whose mysore program has been going at it uninterruptedly since 2013.

I struggle to marry commerce and art in this format, so do bear with the high brow-low brow of it. I have a lot of opinions after doing this for 12 Years, and I hope to cast a wide net. .

One of the most radical things we can do in an economy that commoditizes our attention is to focus on what we want, not what someone else tells us to.