Functional Intermediate
Sixteen weeks inside Nadi Shodhana — Second Series, posture by posture, as joint demands rather than shapes.
Nerve cleansing. A backbending series that turns into an arm-balance and leg-behind-head series, and it will ask you for things Primary never mentioned. We give Kapotasana three full weeks, because it is the crux and it deserves them.
The arc
- Re-entry and the Prone Backbends — weeks 1–4
- The Kapotasana Arc — weeks 5–9
- The Turn: Arm Balance, Twist, Leg Behind Head — weeks 10–13
- Forearm, Lotus and the Headstands — 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 Intermediate 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.
- Ashtanga 2.0 — the book, yours to keep.
The book
Ashtanga 2.0 comes with this program — the lineage question. What to keep from the tradition, what to leave behind, and how to inherit a method without inheriting a throne. Fitting company for Second Series, which is where most practitioners first have to decide what they actually believe.
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.
Three rules
Don’t hurt yourself. Be honest. Try to have a good time. In that order.
Who it is for
Practitioners established in Primary and opening the spine.
