by Jude Hynes | Jun 14, 2015 | Ashtanga, Jude's blog, Teacher Training
When applying for the 1-year part-time YA 500 Yoga Teacher training course at the Auckland Yoga Academy I was unaware of the significance of joining the 5,000 year old Ashtanga Yoga lineage and studying the pure essence of the eight limbs approach. I distinctly... 
by Jude Hynes | Oct 31, 2013 | Ashtanga
61 year old Dr Barbara Schaffer graduated from our YA 200 Teacher Training Course in 2010. Here she makes the point that regularly practicing Ashtanga Yoga has had a therapeutic effect on the condition osteoporosis, that she suffers from. It’s not about the drugs:... 
by Jude Hynes | May 31, 2013 | Ashtanga, Philosophy
Article by Sarah Moyes; Yogini, journalist and blogger on Life at Five Foot Two. I came across a quote recently in a yoga philosophy book by Stephen Cope that really explained it all: “Yoga should come with a warning: these practices will change your life.” (The... 
by Jude Hynes | Mar 10, 2013 | Ashtanga, Philosophy
Eight years ago I was intensively practicing dropping back (into a back bend) and coming up again, when I felt something tear in my ankle. I had torn a ligament and a tendon. It developed into an excruciating pain and I did not walk again with ease for four years. The... 
by Jude Hynes | Nov 24, 2012 | Ashtanga
Years ago when just beginning the practice I researched Ujjayi breathing and found these two excerpts deepened and enhanced my practice. May they inspire and direct your practice as they have and do mine! Source: ASTANGA YOGA BY SRI K PATTABHI JOIS AND LINO MIELE,... 
by Jude Hynes | Nov 18, 2012 | Asana, Ashtanga
Setting up – to enter the pose: squat down, knees bent and lean the weight of the body slightly forward and over to the right (hands as a support on the floor) and then lift the left heel up turning the calf muscle outward and bringing the upper torsos –...