Definitions
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- n. Any of several styles of yoga; including ashtanga vinyasa yoga.
Etymologies
Examples
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It is also known as ashtanga yoga, or "the eight limbed path," and also "the royal path."
Alanna Zabel: Let The Royal Wedding Remind You Of Your Own Royal Path
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A related form, called ashtanga, is similarly challenging and involves doing poses in a very specific sequence.
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Power Yoga is drawn from a branch of classic yoga called ashtanga, which, loosely translated, means, "Oh, dear Lord, that hurts!"
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Furthermore, those who attempt short-cuts to the healing heat, by rubbing Ben-Gay all over their bodies, are not only cheating themselves, but are also referred to as ashtanga-badanga, meaning "pathetic grease-monkeys, unfit to lick our incense ashes."
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And, according to Kate, it's all down to a style of yoga called Jivamukti meaning "liberation while living", which, while not as widespread or well-known as ashtanga, has a growing and devoted following at its London
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The faster-paced yang-style yoga, such as ashtanga or vinyasa, targets lengthening and strengthening the muscles, says Oregon-based Grilley, who teaches yoga nationally and internationally and wrote "Yin Yoga: A Quiet Practice" in 2002.
Janet Kinosian: A Little Yin to Your Yang: Yin Yoga Brings Deep Stress Relief
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So a daily ashtanga practice is just a way of framing and focusing what's needed for your own personal evolution -- from the most mundane to the most profound level.
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One of my favorite sayings of the guru of ashtanga yoga, Sri K.
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As my feet beat a rhythm on the stairs, my heart was yearning for that sense of body-mind-spirit connection my ashtanga practice gave me, and a thought popped into my head: "I am marching toward God."
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There must be something in the practice of ashtanga, then, that brings on the All.
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