Three Series.
Two Nights.
One Season.
A sixteen-week Ashtanga study group. Two cohorts, two nights — and every Sunday, a two-hour Practice Playground where the whole room works together.
Two seasons a year, through 2029.
Every fall runs the two-cohort season on this page — Primary with Intermediate, Intermediate with Advanced, Sundays together. Every spring runs one series at a time — Functional Primary and Functional Intermediate — each with its own count, and Asana Theory and the FRC intro for both. Sixteen Sundays either way, four seats per cohort, $1,008.
- Spring 2027Functional Primary · Functional IntermediateReserve a seat →
7 Feb → 30 May 2027 · off Easter - Fall/Winter 2027Primary + Intermediate · Intermediate + AdvancedReserve a seat →
12 Sep 2027 → 16 Jan 2028 · off Thanksgiving + two winter Sundays - Spring 2028Functional Primary · Functional IntermediateReserve a seat →
6 Feb → 28 May 2028 · off Easter - Fall/Winter 2028Primary + Intermediate · Intermediate + AdvancedReserve a seat →
10 Sep 2028 → 14 Jan 2029 · off Thanksgiving + two winter Sundays - Spring 2029Functional Primary · Functional IntermediateReserve a seat →
4 Feb → 27 May 2029 · off Easter
One method, three depths, two nights.
Most study groups teach one series in isolation. This one keeps all three in play. Tuesday runs Primary alongside Intermediate. Thursday runs Intermediate alongside Advanced. Every principle still gets seen at three depths across the week — we’ve just consolidated three rooms into two.
Intermediate is the hinge. It sits at the top of one night and the bottom of the other — the same postures that are the ceiling in one room are the floor in the next. That overlap is the whole design. Every series is the previous series asked a harder question, and you learn your own series fastest by seeing what it is preparing you for. On Sundays both rooms come together and the three depths sit side by side.
Three touchpoints a week.
Tuesday nights
Workshop format. We take the week’s principle apart in Primary, build it back up, put it in the count — then look at what Intermediate does with the same idea.
Thursday nights
The same principle, one amplitude up. Intermediate taken seriously, then followed into Third Series, where the method stops being polite about it.
Practice Playground
Two hours, both cohorts in one room. The week’s thread shown at all three depths — Primary, Intermediate, Advanced — then open mat with the time to actually fail at it. Included in your enrollment.
Choose where you are.
Primary + Intermediate
Forward folding, purification, the foundation — and then the door it opens. We build Primary properly and spend every week looking at where it is pointing: the backbends, the binds, and the first leg-behind-head.
Intermediate + Advanced
Nerve cleansing — backbends, leg-behind-head, arm balances, the seven headstands — worked against the demands of Advanced A. Side-balances, lotus presses, deep backbends, 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.
Most Viable Posture
Every shape as a spectrum, not a target. Your version counts.
FRC joint-prep
A mobility layer for the hardest demand of each week.
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.
The Practice Playground.
Two hours. Both cohorts. Open mat. This is not a second class and it is not a led primary — it’s the week’s principle handed back to you with time, props, partners, and me walking around.
Two hours is the point. Most of what people can’t do, they can’t do because they have never had more than five breaths to try it. Here you get a morning.
Name the week’s thread and which pass we’re on. Why is this interesting at all three depths at once?
The FRC joint work for today’s thread. All bodies, the same drill.
Workshop the thread: Primary → Intermediate → Advanced. Both cohorts watching all three — which are secretly the same movement.
Open mat. Props, partners, the wall, and the posture you’ve been losing to. This is the playday, and it’s the biggest block on purpose.
Everyone finds their viable version. Nobody forces a shape to qualify.
The postures back inside the count and the breath, then tie it to the three rules.
Sixteen weeks, three calendars.
- TuesdaysCohort 1 · Primary + Intermediate · 6:30–8:00 PM
Sep 8 → Jan 12 · off Nov 24, Dec 22, Dec 29 - ThursdaysCohort 2 · Intermediate + Advanced · 6:30–8:00 PM
Sep 10 → Jan 14 · off Nov 26, Dec 24, Dec 31 - SundaysPractice Playground · both cohorts · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Sep 13 → Jan 17 · off Nov 29, Dec 27, Jan 3
Five ideas, three times around.
This is not sixteen unrelated topics. There are only five things happening in this method, and we go around them three times — each one returning five weeks later, deeper.
| The thread | Pass 1 · the shape | Pass 2 · under load | Pass 3 · in combination |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Foldhip flexion & compression | Week 1Where the fold comes from | Week 6Kurmasana | Week 11+ Thread → the splits |
| The Bindrotation & the shoulder | Week 2Shoulder before hand | Week 7Add the spiral | Week 12+ Fold → leg behind head |
| The Liftbandha & the arm balance | Week 3Finding the middle | Week 8More of you in the air | Week 13+ Thread → the press |
| The Archspinal extension | Week 4The back body works | Week 9Control the descent | Week 14+ Lift → the headstands |
| The Threadexternal rotation & the open hip | Week 5Lotus is a hip | Week 10Lotus under load | Week 15+ Arch → Kapotasana & Raja Kapotasana |
Week 16 puts all five back into the count as a whole practice. The five-week gap between passes is deliberate: it’s long enough that you’ll have half-forgotten, which is exactly when relearning does the most good. And the third pass is the real point — the harder series aren’t new movements, they’re two of these five arriving at the same time.
Every week, mapped.
Cohort 1 · Primary + Intermediate Tuesdays+
- 1The FoldPadangusthasana, Paschimottanasana → Krounchasana
- 2The BindPrasarita C, Marichyasana A/B → Pasasana
- 3The LiftNavasana, the lolasana lift → Bakasana
- 4The ArchPurvottanasana, Setu Bandhasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana
- 5The ThreadArdha Baddha Padma, Janu A/B → Supta Vajrasana
- 6The Fold · loadedKurmasana / Supta Kurmasana → Dwi Pada Sirsasana
- 7The Bind · loadedMarichyasana C/D, Parivrtta standing · checkpoint
- 8The Lift · loadedBhujapidasana → Tittibhasana A
- 9The Arch · loadedDropbacks and stand-ups → Laghu Vajrasana
- 10The Thread · loadedGarbha Pindasana, Kukkutasana → Karandavasana
- 11Fold × ThreadKonasanas, Supta Padangusthasana → Hanumanasana
- 12Bind × FoldSupta Kurmasana bind, Marichyasana D → Eka Pada Sirsasana
- 13Lift × ThreadKukkutasana as a press, Sirsasana entries
- 14Arch × LiftSirsasana, finishing at full length → Pincha
- 15Arch × BindDropback to standing → Kapotasana
- 16IntegrationThe full series in the count + finishing
Cohort 2 · Intermediate + Advanced Thursdays+
- 1The FoldFull vinyasa counted, Krounchasana → Eka Pada Sirsasana
- 2The BindPasasana, Bharadvajasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana
- 3The LiftBakasana, Tittibhasana A → Galavasana
- 4The ArchShalabhasana, Dhanurasana, Ustrasana → Laghu Vajrasana
- 5The ThreadSupta Vajrasana → the Karandavasana lower
- 6The Fold · loadedDwi Pada Sirsasana, Yoganidrasana → Bhairavasana
- 7The Bind · loadedPurna Matsyendrasana, Koundinyasana, Astavakrasana · checkpoint
- 8The Lift · loadedTittibhasana A–D → Galavasana, Eka Pada Bakasana
- 9The Arch · loadedLaghu Vajrasana, Kapotasana, Supta Vajrasana
- 10The Thread · loadedKarandavasana → Urdhva Kukkutasana A
- 11Fold × ThreadHanumanasana, Trivikramasana → Durvasasana
- 12Bind × FoldKashyapasana, Bhairavasana, Skandasana, Chakorasana
- 13Lift × ThreadUrdhva Kukkutasana A/B/C, Koundinyasana
- 14Arch × LiftThe seven headstands → Viparita Dandasana
- 15Arch × BindEka Pada Raja Kapotasana, Raja Kapotasana, Ganda Bherundasana
- 16IntegrationThe full series in the count + finishing
The sixteen Playgrounds — the shared overlap Sundays+
- Krounchasana — and everybody counting out loud
- Pasasana — bind clinic, straps and partners
- Bakasana — lift day, blocks out
- Shalabhasana & Dhanurasana — backbend playday
- Supta Vajrasana — lotus lab
- Dwi Pada Sirsasana — compression play
- Checkpoint: self-practice, nobody leading
- Tittibhasana A — arm balance playday
- Laghu Vajrasana — descents, spotted
- Karandavasana — rolling and pressing
- Hanumanasana — open hips, every prop in the building
- Eka Pada Sirsasana with the bind — the clearest picture of the design
- Urdhva Kukkutasana entries — press day
- Pincha Mayurasana & the first headstands
- Kapotasana — the deep end, no clock
- Self-practice, all of us, nobody leading
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 way of thinking clearly and leading honestly.
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 next season.
Spring 2027 opens 7 February — Functional Primary or Functional Intermediate, sixteen Sundays, four seats each. The fall format returns in September 2027.
- 16 cohort nights in your series — and the series above it
- 16 Sunday Practice Playgrounds — two hours, both cohorts, open mat
- An FRC joint-prep layer every week
- The vinyasa count, taught first
- A mid-term self-practice checkpoint
- All three books, yours to keep
Four seats a cohort. This one is full.
The next season opens in February. Two seasons a year, through 2029 — pick yours.
See the seasons →