Asana Kitchen Podcast

In this podcast David talks about how practice helps you manage inner and outer conflict.

An in-depth explanation about what constitutes goodness and auspiciousness in your yoga poses and in the rest of your life.

In this Asana Kitchen podcast, David takes an in-depth look at the word dharma. -"What is my dharma? What does that even mean to me?" -LONGING! - essential. find your dharma? Tap you’re longing. -Raw desire into something tangible. -See dharma as happening in practice & and the bigger aspect. What's my work in this asana? -Take stock of your duties. What is your vision? -Take stock of your body. c...

In this podcast David uses Yoga Sutra 1:33 and discusses the four different attitudes to take to go from a clouded mind to a clear mind.

"DEAR DAVID, WHERE IS THE PLACE OF THE YOGI IN A REVOLUTION? SITTING STILL GOES AGAINST EVERY FIBER OF MY BRING BUT WHAT WOULD THE SUTRAS SAY? . It’s a natural human thing to want to lash out at wrong, to get mad, retaliate, and let go. It takes great power to practice restraint and to channel your anger like Gandhi or MLK. You keep your anger contained so that you can act skillfully instead of ra...

Certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher David Garrigues discusses the concept of infinity and how it plays out in the asana practice, nirodha, and creates yogic powers (siddhis) in the practitioner. EXTRA NOTES The 8 famous Siddhis Siddhi (special) power:  peculiar skill, mastery, perfection 1) ANIMA SIDDHI Ability to become small, size of an atom  In your pose:  ability to perceive the minutest detail; s...

In this podcast, certified Ashtanga teacher David Garrigues, gives the 3 top reasons to not let anything steal your practice.

In this Asana Kitchen podcast, David dives deep into yoga sutra 1:20 and looks at how doubt and faith reveal themselves in the practice. David's new video course, Yoga Sutras for Ashtanga Students, is now available for purchase on his website. There are 22 talks on Book 1 (Samadhi Pada) and on Book 2 (Sadhana Pada). You can purchase each book separately or together. In both books, David breaks dow...

In this Asana Kitchen podcast David discusses the five root causes of pain and gives practical ways to work with pain in your asana practice.

Silence, Pattabhi Jois, and Moving Forward in Ashtanga by David Garrigues

JOIN ME JULY 6-AUGUST 10 for my ONLINE SUMMER COURSE: ASANA SKILL BUILDING TECHNIQUES AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA. www.davidgarrigues.com In Ashtanga yoga when we stay in a pose for a prolonged length of time we call it being in “the state of the asana”. We single out the fact of holding a position and give it a name because our practice also includes doing many transition poses tha...

In this podcast I discuss the evolution of your ashtanga yoga practice. What happens down the road, when you are years or decades into your sadhana? There are many clear rules that get you started such as practicing 6 days a week or learning a series one posture at a time. The most talked about or emphasized ashtanga practice tenets can serve you well for many years. But sooner or later there come...

In this Asana Kitchen podcast certified Ashtanga teacher David Garrigues discusses two empowering perspectives the student can utilize to extract knowledge out of their practice.

In this AK podcast certified Ashtanga teacher David Garrigues uses the Hindu myth of Vamana and Bali to discuss the material and spiritual world, and the need for the yoga practitioner to learn how to balance each of them in their lives. Purchase Maps and Musings on Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/y8ullqh6

In this Asana Kitchen podcast David compares the 4 Hindu life stages (student, householder, forest dweller, and renunciate) to the stages of a yogi's life long practice.

In this podcast David Garrigues discusses absorption and how the householder yogi can utilize the term in their daily practice.

www.davidgarrigues.com In this Asana Kitchen podcast David talks about the 3 levels of purification and how all three are necessary to climb the staircase from hatha yoga to raja yoga. KEYWORDS: ASHTANGA YOGA HATHA YOGA RAJA YOGA DAVID GARRIGUES ASANA KITCHEN PODCAST MYSORE YOGA POSE POSTURE YOGA TEACHER INSTRUCTOR BANDHAS MUDRAS YOGA PHILOSOPHY SPIRITUAL

The 3 practices that make up Kriya Yoga (Tapas, Svadhyaya, Isvara Pranidhana-YS II-1) are central to the study of yoga. The classical application of Svadhyaya is to consult the sacred texts to gather definitions of Self that help you distinguish between the little you(self) and you as sacred Seer to the world (Self). In this podcast David reads bhakti poetry as an example of how the student of yog...

In this Asana Kitchen podcast David Garrigues uses psychologist James Hillman's article on betrayal to discuss ahimsa and how it plays out in conflict, forgiveness, and resolution. "You can't even learn about trust and forgiveness without being betrayed."

The main theme of this podcast is to use a single principle in yoga practice to go from a clouded, disturbed mind to a clear, lucid, settled, blessed mind.

In this talk David teaches how vinyasa in the Ashtanga system is an entry point into one of the 4 major categories of Hatha Yoga, Mudras. This talk was given at the Mysore intensive in Great Barrington, May of 2018.

Topics and Keywords David discusses are: -Yoga Sutra 17 from Book 1 -Bhagavad Gita -Nirodha -Vitarka -Vicara -Ananda -Asmita This talk was given at the Mysore intensive in Great Barrington May of 2018.