200 hour multi style yoga teacher training in Goa at Goa yogashala follow the ancient tradition of Ashtanga Yoga as popularized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Traditionally, yoga helps you in completely knowing yourself and calm yourself. However, this real meaning can get a bit lost amidst the practices of exercise-centric yoga that seems to be very popular nowadays. Ashtanga, on the other hand, brings modern-day yogis back to the ancient roots of yogic practice.

Pattabhi’s Ashtanga yoga comprises a fixed series of postures linked together with breath. Unlike modern-day yoga practices, the Ashtanga sequence of postures remains the same, and the practice is traditionally performed without music, mood lighting, or other factors of the western yoga class. By taking away these external factors, Ashtanga Yoga practitioners are able to streamline their attention inward, focusing on the internal aspects of yoga rather than the physical.

During our Ashtanga yoga classes, we teach the whole primary series including rules of sequencing, pranayama, mantra chanting as well as drishti and bandha.