Ashtangar Yoga

 On Thursday October 15,

    We got to meet an Ashtangar Yoga practitioner, He was fantastic to work with, but quite hard to work through the Ashtangar poses compared to Iyengar, they seemed quite hard positions to get into, the poses seemed like poses meant for intermediates, instead of beginners. The yogi teacher was quite quick with his order, and it made it hard for me to get settled into one pose before the next one was ordered, otherwise it was quite an interesting work out, I enjoyed it a lot, and it showed me how far I needed to go as a Yga practitioner. 

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