Sunday Sadhana Starts This Week

Sunday Sadhana, our new class, starts this Sunday. Don’t forget to register by clicking the link in this email

Sunday Sadhana runs 9:30-11:30.
Think of it as Integrative Ashtanga 🙂

What else? My new book Self Practice: Advanced Yoga for Beginners is ready for y’all. It’s a quick read designed to help you build and sustain your home practice.

Ashtanga yoga is a way of developing deep compassion for all living creatures, most especially yourself.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

Everything else—the postures, the breath counts, the sweat, the Sanskrit names, the philosophical frameworks—exists to teach you radical honesty about who you are right now, in this moment, with the body and mind and circumstances you actually have. And that radical honesty, practiced consistently with kindness, builds profound self-love. Which then naturally extends outward as compassion for others.

Self-love is powerful. It’s also surprisingly hard to access in a culture that makes money from your insecurity. Most of us have been taught that honesty about our limitations means we’re failing. If you never feel like enough, you’ll keep buying, scrolling, and performing. Ashtanga yoga teaches you something different: honesty about your limitations is how you build capacity. Not someday, not when you’re finally flexible enough or strong enough or dedicated enough. Today. With what you have. That kind of honest self-knowledge makes you harder to sell to and harder to control.

This book is about how that works.

You can find the book in the Yoga Club Handbook, which just dropped. The handbook also includes ashtanga flash cards to support your learning.

See you on the mat,

Michael