Working on building strength with special guest Michael Roike.

trying on my new #spectacles

post birthday couching

oh huh
they bend here,
too --
duh

target receipt practice receipt

For my bestie @bibliophile1800

Bruh. she thicc and she presses

TRYING TO BE
CAPTAIN PLANCHET.

THEY TWIST.

Been taking
a 5:45am
HIIT class
3x this week #f45ustreet

Chose
pleasure
over
pedantic

I did not
let perfection
inhibit proficient.

@balancegym

oops

align & flow vinyasa at 9.
room opens at 8:45.
get on it.

🔈 Ganesh &
Split Squats

working to
maximize
time
under
tension

Wednesday Yoga:
MYSORE 7:30
HALF & HALF 9

mari b

Rishi marichi was 😩🙄 but “b” is for birthday so here we are.

every moment of every day is a chance to notice how
Alive you are.

some days you fly high. some days ya... don’t.

#37 but ya keep going.
ya stay awake.
and you rejoice in being alive.

@bonsaibadboi B4

so! hard!

Catch
a
Sweet
Sweaty
Vinyasa Monday
11
zoom
link in bio

LOOKING FOR THE NEGLECTED BITS AND ASKING THEM TO PLAY

sped up 20x

issa whole mood

um notre dame
this is not a good look

CANT WAIT TO PRAX IRL!

“It doesn’t feel like it’s getting any closer,” she says. “Work with gravity— that’s good stuff, “ I say. watch the face. That eyeroll.

What is pratyahara?

easy does it, hall.

dancing can be fun.
try to have fun.

k bai

K bai 🙈

o hai

k bai

trying on outfits
For Portugal. @joeymillero
@smashigram @michaelgeovanni @jeffstagram129

a duck haiku

hit by car, fucked wrist
end of April, healing up
funny pose to like

wrist is much better

grace not so much

Drills for inversions
Sped up 9x

very happy
with the wrist.

Sped up from 2min to 14sec

ridiculous.

living
room
practice

Thanks everyone for all the well wishes.

Healing after something major— a car accident, an athletic injury, or something even more catastophic looks different for everyone— but healing and joy are available to everyone with the patience to try.

This was the first time I’ve been able to execute this posture in this manner since April.

working with the virturvian
(adaptive weight for maximum time under tension)

suitcase squats

First burpees since April slow and steady wrist progress

Getting support from an old friend. @fitqueenirene

Good ol’ 5x5 xo @vitruvian

Happy Jackie Washington Day to everyone who celebrates.

180lbs 5x5

how I actually look (It’s going ok!) (what I’m really doing is working to get the weight to shift into my left side, overriding the compensatory patterns I’ve developed since being injured)

staring competition

Thx @neaferrieryoga

"we need more people with different identities sharing the practice"

Join me for a FREE 30-Day Core Fitness Challenge!

I'm excited to share @ashtanga.tech Ashtanga Tech with you guys!
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Link in bio!!

Did you finish day 2?

Did you like the tabata?

Day 3 be like
"But I'm a star!!"
(Actually, day 2 gets spicy)
🌶️🌶️

We’re a week in to the 30 Day Core Fitness Challenge and the 2024 Teaching Immersion over at @ashtanga.tech — and I’m just over the moon. Ashtanga Tech is the ashtanga education platform I built, designed for practitioners and professionals. She’s meant to facilitate development in a variety of different components of the ashtanga yoga system— from core fitness to meditation. It’s amazing to see so many of you guys using it already, and I’m just so over the moon. Can’t wait to see you in homeroom.

I reckon this wrist and ankle are back in the game. 2 years (fine, 22 months) of incremental progress after getting hit by a car.

My friend from @theyoga.club Liz @lizzoouli suggested I record my practice to check in on some asymmetries I'm balancing. She’s worried I don’t get enough time with a teacher for myself. I broke my ankle and rib last year getting hit by a bicyclist, and my wrist about a year before that getting hit by a car. I am really proud of my generally good attitude, outside of one meltdown phone call ( thanks @made_by_mara !!). Yoga has instilled patience and persistence, pragmatism and a solutions focused growth mindset. 10/10, would recommend. The yoga, that is. The getting hit by stuff is a 2/10.

If you need some support in your practice or healing journey, hmu. This stuff works.

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.

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 are some of my current favorite lower back strengthening and compression strategies and their intended application.

As always, reach out if you want some in person or virtual coaching— or find me in the mysore room @theyoga.club

Here are some of my current favorite lower back strengthening and compression strategies and their intended application.

As always, reach out if you want some in person or virtual coaching— or find me in the mysore room @theyoga.club

Here are some of my current favorite lower back strengthening and compression strategies and their intended application.

As always, reach out if you want some in person or virtual coaching— or find me in the mysore room @theyoga.club

Here are some of my current favorite lower back strengthening and compression strategies and their intended application.

As always, reach out if you want some in person or virtual coaching— or find me in the mysore room @theyoga.club

Doing the impossible is a matter of breaking it down into possible pieces, with a dash of faith and patience.

Here are some additional handstands and Compression Drills/ Strategies for Intermediate Series.

Join @ashtanga.tech and me for an immersive intermediate series intensive. Explore the path to personal mastery with us in Nashville at @yogashalanashville ! This isn’t about hierarchy; it’s about individual growth and mastery. Let’s journey together towards personal excellence on the mat. See you there! 🌟

Enjoyment as a Discipline:

Hey y’all, it’s Michael here, bringing you some backbending inspiration from my workroom. My biggest tip? Stop making yourself miserable.

Incorporating enjoyment and gratitude into the discipline of yoga practice is in itself a transformative act. It shifts the focus from viewing practice as a duty or challenge to seeing it as a cherished part of daily life. This shift in perspective can significantly enhance a practitioner’s dedication and enthusiasm, making the practice more sustainable and enriching.

Commit to knocking the sh*t*y self talk off. Enjoyment is part of the process— be disciplined about its curation!

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Intermediate Intensive -Nashville @yogashalanashville - 6/14-6/16
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Primary Intensive- Washington, DC @theyoga.club - 6/21-6/23

4 Spots Left for
Primary Series Intensive June 21-23!!

When I got to Goa, I felt anonymous again.

In Mysore, I felt like everyone had heard. I was the ashtangi who got hate crime'd in the face after his house burned down. I wanted to be the tall pretty one. Or the smart one. But for now, I was very much the tragic one.

Luckily, Rolf wasn’t watching the news. I was just one more 6'3 drop back for him to do. And he was happy to oblige-- quietly sharing lite bits here and there in my ear about his work. But not so happy with it that I didn’t get assigned sone extra. Great.

After 26 years of shrinking myself for others, I got to just be the big one. You gotta gang up to take the big one down, and that's what was happening in real life. Literal gangs at home on the street, and little yogi gangs jockeying for status in Mysore.

When you question your ability to be loved by the universe, it is very helpful to see real love pouring out of someone else’s eyes.

Rolf didn’t need to know that I was stitched together with laughy taffy and titanium. Marci went to work on putting my physical injuries to bed and Rolf my heart. Neither needed a narrative. it is good, because I was so sick of my own story I couldn’t take it anymore.

As I’ve been working on my book-- it’s almost done -- the only part that I haven’t gotten into is my introduction into Systems Thinking-- through a gang beatdown.

I have known catastrophe again and again and gotten up to go again and again. This might sound like hubris, but check my receipts.

Rolf was able to help me see the interconnected nature of things in a way that makes the big picture possible. He also helped me understand how unspecial I was — while also feeling very very, very special. As Rolf would say, you do as you feel, and every day, the Yoga grows inside of you like a little plant.

In many ways, the development of my practice and the autonomy — the Santosh— the self sufficiency — means that there is less labor for my teacher to take on. Now i understand that my desire to be better in my physical practice was also so that Rolf had to do less for me.

Since he’s dead now, I will have to put my thigh down on the ground myself.

Simple Lats and Legs Circuit:
Go up in weight
Aim for 90 seconds for each round, 11-12 sec per rep.

3 Rounds (1 min between sets)
-Single Arm Reverse Grip Lat Pulldown (r & l)— 8 Eccentrics with 2lb Progression
-8 Suitcase Squats (time under tension) with 2lb progressions

3 Rounds (1 minute rest)
-Single Arm Reverse Grip Lat Pulldown (r & l)— 8 Eccentrics with 2lb regressions
-8 Suitcase Squats (time under tension) with 2lb regressions

Adaptive resistance via @vitruvian
—
Maybe lets launch a little ashtanga early bird barbell club, huh? Hit me up if that sounds fun.

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Learn how to use your practice to live better. Ashtanga Yoga can impact our physiology in life changing ways. This and much more at https://ashtanga.tech/ @ashtanga.tech

Taking it all in the last night before renovations 🥹

hyggie x britney

b part

best part

Stays on repeat

o hai weirdo

Where do you see yourself in 10 years

some backbending ideas for your practice.

Select postures from 2nd 1/2 of 2nd series
w/ a chair

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. .

Repair

Goals
x2026

single arm rear delt fly

Superset for Legs & Core

Supersets save time without sacrificing your ability to gain strength and mass. Basically, pick two exercises, do them back to back, then take your break. You can choose complimentary muscle or oppositional muscle groups (or both) in your programming. you can also easily add reps and a set to progressively overload in a straightforward way.

3 Rounds of 15 reps

60-90 seconds off between supersets. Move quickly between individual sets (of course).

Superset A:
Pull throughs - cable & rope
Calf Raises - cable & rope

Superset B:
Leg Extension - cable & strap
Hamstring curl - cable & strap

uh oh