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Evan Harris | Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga's Teacher Profile

Evan has studied yoga traditions and philosophies since 2002, eventually coming to focus primarily on Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Buddhist contemplative practices. The depth, sophistication, and clarity of these systems and their higher-order understandings of the body and mind are constant inspirations in practice and teaching.

Through extensive study with senior Ashtanga Vinyasa teachers, he has developed a teaching style that understands the essence of the vinyasa yoga of Krishnamacharya and Pattabhi Jois to be proper breath linked with movement. Exploration of this rigorous technique as a breathing system yields presence and (eventually) ease in the postures, which gradually open like leaves in the spring. Supplemented with a sophisticated knowledge of technique and anatomy, he finds that many students have the capacity to practice advanced postures with proper patience, dedication, and guidance. Continue reading ›



Horizontal and Vertical Progress

Ashtanga vinyasa yoga has an obvious, linear progression. As you master a posture, you add another posture. The difficulty of postures steadily increases, as does the challenge to your endurance. Adding postures, making the practice longer and smoother, being able to accomplish more and more difficult postures: these are all signs of progress.

But sometimes you [...]

Tristana

There is an aspect of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga practice called tristana. Like “yoga” it is both a practice and the state achieved through the repetition of that practice.

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