Ashtanga Study Group — Fall/Winter 2026 Season
Sixteen Tuesday cohort nights + sixteen Sunday all-levels sessions, Sep 2026 – Jan 2027. Three series in one room. Choose your cohort; Sundays bring everyone together.
Three Series. One Room. One Season.
A sixteen-week Ashtanga study group — Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced A, running side by side every Tuesday this fall and winter, with a Sunday all-levels session that ties the whole week together.
The idea
Most study groups teach one series at a time. This one runs all three in the same room, on the same night. You work your own cohort — but you practice alongside the others, watching the same principle express itself at three depths. The beginner sees where the path leads. The advanced practitioner re-meets the root. One night, one method, three amplitudes.
How it works
Two touchpoints a week. Tuesdays are cohort nights — three stacked sessions: Primary at 6:00, Intermediate at 7:15, Advanced A at 8:30, workshop format. Sundays at 10:00 AM bring all three cohorts into one room for a 90-minute all-levels session that takes a single principle and shows it at three depths at once. You enroll in the cohort that matches where your practice is; the Sunday session is included.
What runs through every session
- The vinyasa count as the method — taught first, asana second.
- Tristana: breath, bandha, drishti — the engine under all three series.
- The MVP (Most Viable Posture) framework — every shape as a spectrum, not a target.
- An FRC joint-prep layer for the hardest demand of each series.
- The three rules: don’t hurt yourself, be honest, try to have a good time.
The three cohorts
- Primary · Yoga Chikitsa — forward folding, purification, the foundation. The series that teaches every other series.
- Intermediate · Nadi Shodhana — nerve cleansing. Backbends, leg-behind-head, arm balances, the seven headstands.
- Advanced A · Sthira Bhaga — divine stability. Side-balances, lotus arm balances, deep backbends with leg-behind-head, splits. For practitioners already inside the series.
The season
Sixteen Tuesday cohort nights (Sep 8 → Jan 12) and sixteen Sunday all-levels sessions (Sep 13 → Jan 17). Off for Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. Four seats per cohort. Enrollment is for the full 16-week season — Tuesdays and Sundays together. Includes two companion ebooks: Self Practice: Advanced Yoga for Beginners and Mechanism, Not Magic: The Yoga of Leadership.