Ashtanga yoga: Am I approaching ashtanga correctly?

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• Am I approaching ashtanga correctly?
• Are knee injuries common on Ashtanga? How to avoid them?
• What do you do in savasana?

Am I approaching ashtanga correctly? Posted: 16 Jun 2021 08:15 AM PDT I have been doing random yoga videos online for the past ~1.5 years. I started with two 30-day challenges to get a good foundation, then watched a stand-alone 20-40 minute yoga video 2-5 times a week. I want to move to Ashtanga because I am very interested in how there is a progressional element to it. The 30-day challenges were progressional, but after doing a couple of them, I found them to get boring and focus too much on the fundamentals for me (I guess there is no such thing as too much fundamentals, but I wanted something more lol). How I plan to approach ashtanga: Do this Half Primary Series every day (more realistically, most days) until I am able to get through the whole video smoothly Move to a Full Primary Series and do that consistently until I am able to get through the whole video smoothly Repeat Is there a certain way to approach this? I just chose that method because it seemed intuitive, but I am not sure if there is a specific way in this lineage to approach asanas. Thank you yogis submitted by /u/SackOfFlesh [link] [comments]

Are knee injuries common on Ashtanga? How to avoid them? Posted: 16 Jun 2021 08:55 AM PDT Got completely addicted to Ashtanga during Lockdown 1.0 consistently doing half primary 6 times a week. Noticed a small cyst appearing behind my left knee completely benign for 2 months. Last 6 months my practice has been completely limited by this cyst, suffering with a lot of pain on the knee after the practice, even walking is a struggle now. For a while doctors thought it was a Baker's Cyst, exams shows its not and no one seems to be able to explain why its there or what cause it... Is this a common injury anyone heard about? Can anyone provide any advice to avoid this getting aggravated? Ashtanga changed my life, I need it back so bad... submitted by /u/Jaimir [link] [comments]

What do you do in savasana? Posted: 16 Jun 2021 12:45 AM PDT And, relatedly, is there any guidance from KPJ or SJ on this? submitted by /u/RichPay [link] [comments]

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