Three Series.
One Room. One Season.
A sixteen-week Ashtanga study group — Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced A, running side by side every Tuesday, with a Sunday all-levels session that ties the whole week together.
One method, three amplitudes.
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.
Two touchpoints a week.
Your series, in the count.
Three stacked sessions, workshop format. We take the postures apart, build them back up, and put them in the count. You enroll in the cohort that matches where your practice is.
Everyone in one room.
A 90-minute all-levels session that takes a single principle and shows it at three depths at once — the Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced A expressions of the same movement. Included in your enrollment.
Choose where you are.
Primary
Forward folding, purification, the foundation. The series that teaches every other series.
Intermediate
Nerve cleansing. Backbends, leg-behind-head, arm balances, the seven headstands.
Advanced A
Divine stability. Side-balances, lotus arm balances, deep backbends with leg-behind-head, splits.
The same engine, every week.
The count
The vinyasa count as the method — taught first, asana second.
Tristana
Breath, bandha, drishti — the engine under all three series.
The MVP framework
Every shape as a spectrum, not a target. Most Viable Posture.
FRC joint-prep
A mobility layer for the hardest demand of each series.
The three rules
Don’t hurt yourself. Be honest. Try to have a good time.
Checkpoints
A mid-term self-practice check and an integration arc to close.
One principle, three depths.
Every Sunday at 10:00 AM, all three series are in the room together. Each week takes one principle and shows the Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced A expressions — which are all secretly the same movement. Everyone watches everyone.
Name the principle and the lens. Why is this interesting at all three levels at once?
The FRC joint work for today’s theme. All bodies, the same drill.
Workshop the principle: Primary → Intermediate → Advanced A. This is the engine.
Everyone finds their viable version. No one forces a shape to qualify.
The postures back inside the count and the breath.
Tie it to the lens and the three rules.
Sixteen weeks, two calendars.
Off for Thanksgiving and the two-week winter holiday shutdown. When the season pauses, all cohorts pause together.
Every week, mapped.
Primary · Yoga Chikitsa+
- 1FoundationsSN A/B, count, tristana, MVP
- 2The Fold BeginsPadangusthasana, hip CARs
- 3Standing the SpineTrikonasana, Parsvakonasana
- 4Wide Fold & ShoulderPrasarita, Parsvottanasana
- 5Standing BalanceUHP, ABP, Utkatasana, Virabhadrasana
- 6The Primary FoldPaschimottanasana, Purvottanasana
- 7Half-Lotus & Three-LimbJanu A/B/C
- 8Bind Clinic IMarichyasana A/B
- 9Bind Clinic IIMarichyasana C/D · checkpoint
- 10The LiftNavasana, Bhujapidasana
- 11The CruxKurmasana / Supta Kurmasana
- 12Lotus RollingGarbha Pindasana → Kukkutasana
- 13Hip ClusterKonasanas, Supta Padangusthasana
- 14Backbend PrepSetu Bandhasana
- 15Spinal ExtensionUrdhva Dhanurasana + dropbacks
- 16IntegrationFinishing + self-practice run
Intermediate · Nadi Shodhana+
- 1Re-entryPasasana, ankle/hallux
- 2HeronKrounchasana
- 3Prone BackbendShalabhasana, Bhekasana
- 4Bow & LoadDhanurasana, Parsva Dhanurasana
- 5Knee-downUstrasana
- 6Eccentric ControlLaghu Vajrasana
- 7Kapotasana IThe crux — shoulder + thoracic + hip-flexor
- 8Kapotasana IIThe reach · checkpoint
- 9Kapotasana III+ Supta Vajrasana
- 10Arm BalanceBakasana
- 11Seated TwistsBharadvajasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana
- 12LBH FoundationEka Pada Sirsasana
- 13Deep CompressionDwi Pada Sirsasana, Yoganidrasana
- 14Tittibhasana A–DArm balance / bind / walk
- 15Forearm & LotusPincha, Karandavasana
- 16Seven Headstands+ finishing
Advanced A · Sthira Bhaga+
- 1Side PlankVasisthasana
- 2Flying LegVishvamitrasana
- 3LBH BalancingKashyapasana, Chakorasana
- 4LBH ClusterBhairavasana, Skandasana, Durvasasana
- 5Lotus PressUrdhva Kukkutasana A
- 6Press ClusterUrdhva Kukkutasana B/C
- 7FlyingGalavasana, Eka Pada Bakasana
- 8Twisting ArmsKoundinyasana · checkpoint
- 9Eight-AngledAstavakrasana
- 10Full TwistPurna Matsyendrasana
- 11The CruxEka Pada Raja Kapotasana
- 12ConsolidationRaja Kapotasana
- 13Inverted SpineViparita Dandasana, V. Shalabhasana
- 14Drop & Tic-TacGanda Bherundasana, Viparita Chakrasana
- 15SplitsHanumanasana, Supta Trivikramasana
- 16Closing DemandsNatarajasana, Viranchyasana + integration
The sixteen Sundays · all levels+
- The Method Itself: Tristana & the Count
- Hip Flexion: The First Fold to the Flying Leg
- Standing Roots & the Back Body
- Shoulders & Reaching Behind
- External Rotation & the Lotus Thread
- Fold & Counter-Fold
- Binding I: The Marichi Family
- Twisting: Spiral as Decompression (checkpoint)
- The Lift: Bandha & the Arm Balance
- The Deep Bind & Compression
- External Rotation II: Lotus Rolling & the Press
- Backbending I: Spinal Extension (marquee)
- Backbending II: The Drop & the Inverted Spine
- Inversions & the Headstands
- Splits & Extreme Range: The Open Hip
- Integration & the Finishing Sequence
Three books to read alongside.
Every cohort gets all three titles to keep — the practice manual, the thinking behind it, and the playbook for the room it all points toward.
Self Practice
The method as a manual — how to build an intelligent, sustainable self-practice from the first breath.
Mechanism, Not Magic
The thinking underneath the practice — yoga as a system for clear, honest leadership on and off the mat.
How to Build a Yoga Club
The playbook for the room itself — how to build a practice space that lasts, without burning out or selling out.
The full season.
Tuesdays and Sundays together, September through January.
- 16 Tuesday cohort nights in your series
- 16 Sunday all-levels sessions — all three series in one room
- An FRC joint-prep layer every week
- The vinyasa count, taught first
- Mid-term checkpoint + a closing integration arc
- Three companion ebooks — Self Practice: Advanced Yoga for Beginners, Mechanism, Not Magic: The Yoga of Leadership, and How to Build a Yoga Club: Sustainable Yoga Without Selling Out, yours to keep
- A four-seat room — real attention, real cross-pollination
Before you enroll.
Which cohort should I choose?+
Do I have to come both days?+
What if I miss a week?+
Is this a led class or a workshop?+
What happens after the season?+
Three series. One room. One season.
Sixteen Tuesdays and sixteen Sundays, side by side. Four seats per cohort — when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Choose your cohort →