Coming Home to Your Body - Ashtanga Yoga as a Practice of Rhythm, Safety and Inner Awareness

This episode is one of my favourites so far - and honestly, one I've been wanting to record for a long time. Twenty years of practicing Ashtanga, fifteen years of teaching it. There is so much I love about this practice and so much I wanted to share. The passion probably shows. And there is still so much more to explore - so yes, more episodes herein are coming.(Tip: this one works well at 1.25x speed 😊)Whether you've been practicing Ashtanga for years, are quietly curious about it, or have always assumed it probably wasn't for you - this episode has something for you.Maybe you're a long-term practitioner who wants to go deeper into why this practice does what it does. Maybe you've been curious but weren't sure where you'd fit, or whether your body was the right kind of body for it. Or maybe you've encountered Ashtanga and something felt off - a culture of performance, a sense that you were never quite getting it right.This episode is my answer to all of that.There is so much in here.What Ashtanga actually is, and why Mysore-style practice is so fundamentally different from a yoga class.Why it's the very familiarity of the sequence that lets the nervous system settle - and something deeper open up.What makes this practice such a reliable anchor for the nervous system.The quality of attention a teacher brings into the room.What it means to hold space without hierarchy.Why collaboration over correction changes the dynamic entirely.And what I keep witnessing in people after fifteen years of teaching this - which still moves me every time.And so much more...My enthusiasm for this practice probably comes through. I make no apology for that - and yes, there will definitely be more episodes diving into the threads I only touched on here. There is still so much to unpack and explore about Ashtanga.If you're:curious about what to expect from your first class, I put together a short reel herethinking you need to know anything or be able to do anything prior to your first Ashtanga Mysore Yoga class, here it's me reassuring you that you really don't need to know anything nor be able to do anything  more of me talking to the camera about Ashtanga Mysore Yoga here. And if you want to know more about our Ashtanga Yoga program itself, you can find all the details about our Ashtanga Mysore program here: https://www.maximeissner.nl/ashtanga-yoga-groningenAll bodies. All levels. All ages. The door is genuinely open.More of my work lives at www.maximeissner.nl. Come say hello on Instagram here or on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/maximeissner