Functional Primary

$1,008.00

Functional Primary

$1,008.00

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Sixteen weeks inside Yoga Chikitsa — Primary Series, posture by posture, looked at as a set of joint demands rather than a set of shapes to arrive at.

Primary is called yoga therapy and it earns the name by being relentlessly ordinary: the same shapes, the same order, the same breath, for years. This is the season that makes that repetition worth something — the standing sequence built properly, the seated fold, the Marichyasana bind clinic, the lift, and Kurmasana, which is the crux.

The arc

Foundations and the Standing Sequence — weeks 1–5
The Seated Fold and the Bind — weeks 6–9
The Lift and the Crux — weeks 10–13
Backbend and Integration — weeks 14–16

What you get

Sixteen sessions — workshop format. We take the week’s material apart, build it back up, and put it in the count.
The Functional Primary course on Ashtanga Tech — a page per week, yours to keep. See the course
Eighteen letters — one each week, plus a welcome and a closing letter.
An FRC joint-prep layer for the hardest demand of each week.
The workbook, and a mid-term self-practice checkpoint.
Functional Ashtanga: The Method and the Manifesto — the book, yours to keep.

The book

Functional Ashtanga comes with this program — the manifesto. Why the method is worth practising at all, what it is actually for, and how to hold it as a philosophy of practice rather than a set of shapes to perform. It is the argument underneath every week of Primary.

What runs through every session

The count — taught first, asana second. Tristana — breath, bandha, drishti. Most Viable Posture — every shape is a spectrum, not a target; you work the version you can breathe in today, through four lanes: Therapeutic, Restorative, Maintenance and Challenge. Challenge means more load, more time, less support — not more depth.