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Breath and Bandha

Yoga lifestyle, asana resource. Asana (the physical aspect of yoga) is an ancient practice promoting physical health and vitality.

Connecting with wisdom spanning 5000 years will deepen your understanding, and add meaning to the discipline.

10/04/2025

You can grind for years and feel like you're getting nowhere, then one day it all pays off. Stay focused on the vision and don't quit one step short of the finish line.

08/01/2022

I’m happy to announce online teaching is finally available beginning today! 🙌

Monthly membership is limited to 100 people for August’s soft-launch as we fine tune, and founding members will lock in a discounted rate for life! Membership will open to all September 1st.

I’m even more excited about the community we’re creating! 🤝 The thought of getting to know everyone and focusing on what will help you the most puts a BIG smile on my face. 😁

August’s theme for classes, asana breakdowns, and discussion is “Cultivating Awareness”. We have a lot of great content ready to go and will be adding a few more videos in the next couple of days. There’s also a live handstand workshop this month! 🤸

Check out the link in my bio for more details and submit your email if your interested. I hope to see you soon! 💚

04/18/2022

Everything changes, and releasing what no longer serves you is vitally important to moving forward. Renegade yoga center has been my home studio since I started practicing, and was a great place to found an Ashtanga program with . I’m eternally grateful to for all he’s given and he’ll always have my respect as an exceptional teacher and friend. Thank you 🙏

I’ve been receiving a lot of messages inquiring as to why we’re taking our program elsewhere. I feel it’s the right decision and only have the best interests of our students and our program at heart. It’s not easy saying goodbye, but our path forward needed to be cleared.

I want to thank everyone who’s supported and encouraged us along the way. Ashtanga yoga is truly a healing and transformative practice, and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to share it with anyone who’s interested. The physical location may be different, but the practice remains unchanged and the passion for yoga is stronger than ever.

04/09/2022

Yoga practice is like any other personal undertaking, you benefit to the degree that you apply yourself. You can choose to go through the motions just to get finished, viewing practice as a kind of penance or punishment - or you can nurture it. You have the option to be fully present with each breath, working to strengthen the connection between mind, body, and spirit. You can make practice sacred - a way of honoring and showing gratitude as you dive deep into yourself in search of truth. The choice is yours and you alone will benefit accordingly.

04/04/2022

A few weeks ago a added malasana to my practice just before pasasana. It was in the sequence originally and removed as the authorized ashtanga sequences developed. It’s been helping with some other poses, especially pasasana.

Pasasana is a challenging pose for most. Getting the heels down and binding both legs takes a lot of strength, flexibility, and coordination. If you’re struggling, maybe practicing malasana will help.

03/29/2022

Knowing how to do something and doing it are two different things. You can theorize and intellectualize to no end, but it’s worthless without practice. Often the mind needs to get out of the way to learn something new about yoga. Practice reveals what can’t be theorized.

03/14/2022

🚨Hey Knoxville!🚨We’re excited to offer a SUPPORTIVE, FUN 🤩 and INSPIRATIONAL COMMUNITY to help YOU reach your health and fitness goals!

✨Modern Ashtanga✨ is NOT the average yoga class. You show up when YOU WANT during the open practice session, and we teach the skills that EMPOWER you for a lifetime ✅ Our expert teachers guide you through a sequence of yoga poses while giving tips that build strength 💪 flexibility, and confidence along the way. That’s right, you don’t have to be strong or flexible to get started!! 💯

You’ll receive the benefits of a 1 on 1 private lesson in a fun and energetic⚡️ community setting. 🤗
EVERYONE (yes everyone) is welcome, and NO experience with yoga is necessary, just bring yourself.🤝

For more information click the link in my bio, or visit modernashtanga.com 📲

💚We’d love to meet you!💚
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03/07/2022

I’m grateful to have a practice that keeps me centered, balanced, and witness to emotional fluctuations. May you find peace within despite outside circumstances.

03/01/2022

I learned something interesting recently regarding the Yoga Danda - a wood arm rest pictured in the last slide. It’s a tool to balance Ida and Pingala nadis for pranayama and meditation.

At different times of the day, Ida or Pingala nadi dominates, and the other is restricted. This is one reason why the recommended time for meditation is between 4am and 6am - when both flow freely and are balanced. Applying pressure to the armpit opposite the restricted nostril for a few minutes causes it to open. This is the purpose of the Yoga Danda.

You can use your fist as well. If your left nostril isn’t flowing as easily as your right, ball up your left hand and apply a little pressure by closing it in the right armpit for a few minutes and see if works.

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