In this 3h introduction to Mysore practice workshop, we will start with a short talk about Ashtanga Yoga practice and how it’s traditionally taught and passed on by teachers to students in ashtanga linage. We will debunk some frequently believed myths about Myosre practice and experience first hand what a mysore class feels like. As well as learn about fundamental posture and 3 places of attention that make ashtanga yoga a moving meditation.
During this workshops we will also be exploring the most basic alignment rules and body mechanics that we apply while practicing asana. We will apply all those while learning sun salutations but also carry that same idea further in more complex postures later in the sequence.
After short break we will actually start a mysore practice with Tina guiding everyone individually, giving hands on adjustments and have experience first hand what it is like to practice in a mysore room and get to feel that “mysore magic”.
After everyone is finished and have taken rest, we will come back all together for a closing talk, where Tina will share some ideas about how to build your own sadhana (daily practice)- and give tips to make it an energizing, sustainable and meaningful yoga practice. There will also be lots of time for all your questions and sharing stories.
– About the teacher:
My name is Tina, I am originally from Croatia where I followed my very first yoga class in 2007. I moved to The Netherlands (for love) in 2010. I have practiced several dynamic yoga styles throughout my yogic explorations but have really fell in love with Ashtanga yoga. I have been a dedicated Ashtanga yoga practitioner and have kept my daily practice for almost 10 years now, but have started diving deeper into the practice and study of yoga more than 16 years ago.
My daily sadhana (practice) and my teachers David Robson and Jelena Vesić are my main source of knowledge, who are direct students of Sharath Jois. I have studied with many reputable ashtanga teachers in the past, but have found a deep human connection with David and Jelena and can proudly call them my teachers.
I have been practicing regularly with David and Jelena since 2019. I have done many trainings, retreats, workshops and intensives with them and I proudly share this knowledge further with my own students.
Since 2022 I have started to assist David & Jelena in several intensives and retreats around the world and I continue to learn regularly from them as much as possible making several trips per year to practice with them in person, as well as weekly online practice when they are not traveling.
In February 2024 I am going to make my first trip to Myosre India, to practice with Sharath Jois himself, at Sharath Yoga Centre, who is the current Ashtanga Yoga lineage holder and the main authority in ashtanga yoga. He is the grandson of Pattabhi Jois, the founder of Ashtanga yoga.
I started to teach yoga in 2014, and by now I am running a daily mysore program in Amsterdam at Tula yogastudio, for more than 4 years now, where I’m the main ashtanga teacher and am teaching several led classes with traditional vinyasa count next to mysore program as well.
I look forward to sharing my decade long study of Ashtanga Yoga, and can’t wait to meet you and guide you on your path of discovering this practice and its depths as well.