ashtanga – Page 6 – Michael Joel Hall

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Jul 15, 2025

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…

Jul 15, 2025

WTF is an Ashtanga Influencer? The internet is creating celebrities instead of role models— and it sounds more Bravo Housewife than it does richard alpert at harvard. Being visible doesn’t mean being knowledgable. Having followers doesn’t mean having integrity. And floating in handstand doesn’t make you a leader. Influence isn’t wisdom. Popularity isn’t pedagogy. Pretty…

Jul 17, 2025

Jul 15, 2025

If you can quit ashtanga, you never started. This implies that the asana and sequence are what make it authentic— get a grip. Authenticity in Ashtanga Yoga isn’t owned by a family’s sequence. This is an indigenous insight practice. It’s a living system. Held up by people all over the world. Taught in basements, bedrooms,…

Jul 15, 2025

Okay, let’s talk about Ashtanga yoga, or rather, what it’s become in the hands of the market. I’ve often spoken about systems and how they behave, and what I see happening with Ashtanga, particularly on platforms like Instagram, is a classic example of a distortion of purpose within a system. We have a practice, Ashtanga,…

afternoon ashtanga vinyasa T-WTh 5:30 practice assisting weekend (july 26-27)

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Jun 15, 2025

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back. Inquiry and curiosity are powerful allies in reckoning with fear and helplessness. These feelings are a tell that the prefrontal cortex has been impacted. This part of the brain has been demonstrated to be an important structure for executive functions. No wonder we feel…

Mysore, 2015