Ashtanga Yoga South Bay

10/08/2025

10/06/2025

No Morning Mysore Class: See you Tuesday!
No Active Series classes: See you Wednesday at Yoga Nest

10/01/2025

Recent revelations of abuse in the Ashtanga community have been disheartening. I blame much of the delusion and pollution of “yoga” on the glorifying of “yoga” teachers on social media platforms. There is this misconception that if a teacher is well known, then they are senior and more knowledgeable than their peers. This is untrue and gives these teachers unwarranted power and room for abuse.

WE HAVE TO STOP CREATING CELEBRITIES OUT OF YOGA TEACHERS. Genuine seekers of yoga do their sadhana deeply and quietly. Their aim is to find personal freedom, kaivalya, not internet glory. They don’t need to shout about it hosting podcasts or post about it. If someone is trying to brand themselves and pursue fame, they are probably not a yogi. They are making yoga all about themselves or all about āsana.

Don’t be deceived: you cannot change your life by going to a workshop to learn how to float or fly! Studying with a bendy celebrity for a few days is not going to transform you, nor are their online tutorials.

As shala owners and teachers, I do not feel bringing these people to teach our students is beneficial. We are probably more experienced than them anyway, just admittedly not as charismatic or ambitious. We have genuine long-established relationships with our students, which is the only correct container in which to transmit knowledge in this paramparā.

Our Guru said this often enough: take one teacher. Nothing is instant. Lasting change will happen when you have a consistent disciplined daily practice for many years.

It is so simple: Do your practice everyday with one humble, kind teacher who has actually experienced inner stillness and found some measure of viveka khyāti (discriminative wisdom). Do that for many years with svādhyāya and iśvara pranidhānā. Then the mind becomes quiet and clear. Then yoga is within sight.

The culture of celebrity encourages grasping around from teacher to teacher, post to post, class to class with the attention span of a squirrel. It creates more vrittis, less clarity and leads to mania and suffering on the hamster wheel of samsāra. Not to liberation.

09/25/2025

Recent revelations have saddened our community. We have come together to make this statement to express support for those who have been harmed. I know it is long, but please appreciate that it has required a collaborative global effort that has taken much time to prepare. It is a starting point and a necessary one, with all good intentions
Lokāssamastāh sukhinobhavantu

09/22/2025

Kali Mandir will be open for Arati every night during Navaratri (September 22nd though September 30th), from 6pm - 7:30pm. Arati starts at 6:30pm.

09/12/2025

PLEASE NOTE: Led class is only for those with an established practice. Students are expected to stop at the last pose given to them by an authorized teacher.
All are welcome to attend the Active Series classes

08/15/2025

After Mysore class: Ashtanga Yoga South Bay @ Red Diamond Palms ☕️