yogas-chitta-vritti-nirodhah. Yoga Sutras, book 1, verse 2

"Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind." (Yoga Sutras 1.2)

Ashtanga Yoga is the system of yoga preserved and transmitted by its great exponent, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. It is designed to purify the body and still the mind. The practice is characterized by Vinyasa, the precise coordination of movement with breath from posture to posture.

In loving memory of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, 1915-2009

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