Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article about Ashtanga yoga first appeared in the January-February 1995 ...

In Ashtanga yoga, you perform the same set of poses, in the same order, for the same breath count. Benefits of Ashtanga yoga include improved well-being, increased strength, and a calmer mind.

In this lifetime, I have been blessed to practice a form of yoga known as Ashtanga. The practice combines physical postures with breath, specific gazing points and engagement of energetic locks in the ...

Six established and strenuous pose sequences - the primary series, second series, third series, and so on - practiced sequentially. Ashtangis move rapidly, flowing from one pose to the next with each ...