Integrated Primary to Intermediate
Sixteen weeks working Primary Series alongside Intermediate. One principle a week, worked at both amplitudes — the Primary expression and the Intermediate question it is preparing you for.
You learn your own series fastest by seeing what it points at. Every week names a principle, takes it apart in Primary, then follows it up into Second Series so you know where the road goes.
Five threads, three passes
There are only five things happening in this method: the Fold (hip flexion and compression), the Bind (rotation and the shoulder), the Lift (bandha and the arm balance), the Arch (spinal extension) and the Thread (external rotation and the open hip).
We go around all five three times. First the shape — where each movement comes from. Then under load — more weight, more time, less support. Then in combination, two at a time, because that is what the harder series actually are. Every idea returns twice, five weeks apart, deeper each time. The gap is deliberate: long enough to half-forget, which is when relearning does the most good.
Four modules
- First Pass · The Shape — weeks 1–5
- Second Pass · Under Load — weeks 6–10
- Third Pass · In Combination — weeks 11–15
- Integration — week 16, everything back in the count
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 Integrated Primary to 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.
- Self Practice: Advanced Yoga for Beginners — the book, yours to keep.
The book
Self Practice: Advanced Yoga for Beginners comes with this program. The method as a manual — how to build an intelligent, sustainable self-practice from the first breath. Read it alongside the weeks; it is the same argument in long form.
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 building the root of the method, or established in Primary and curious what comes next.
