Hey friends,

After a decade of teaching together, experimenting together, and building something different here at The Yoga Club, I've finally put it all down on paper.

The book is called Collider: Functional Ashtanga Yoga Systems for the Next Generation, and you've been living it with me since the beginning.

Remember when we started questioning why certain poses were "given" and others weren't? When we stopped waiting for permission to modify something that didn't serve our bodies? When we realized that genuine safety isn't about good intentions—it's about designing systems that make harm harder?

That's what this book documents. Not abstract theory, but what actually worked when we systematically tested it with real humans in real bodies over thousands of hours of practice.

What's Inside

The book integrates systems thinking, trauma-informed practice, movement science, and ancient wisdom into ten frameworks that help us see practice clearly:

Why so many yoga spaces feel unsafe, even when teachers have good intentions
How selection effects hide dysfunction and make harmful practices look successful
What genuine autonomy actually requires (not just permission, but capacity)
Where the leverage points are—the small changes that create massive shifts

Plus a complete reinterpretation of the Yoga Sutras as sophisticated systems documentation, and the actual operational playbook we've developed together.

This Is Your Work Too

You've helped shape every framework in this book. Every time you asked a hard question. Every time you trusted your body over dogma. Every time you chose function over form. This community proved that another way is possible.

So I'm inviting you to be among the first to read it—not because you need to learn what we do (you already know), but because you might find language for what you've been experiencing. Language you can use with other practitioners, other teachers, other communities.

Ready to Read?

Sign up here and you'll get access immediately. This is the last draft before the editor, so go ham: https://mjh.yoga/collider-functional-systems-for-ashtanga-yoga/

The architecture is here. The evidence exists. The time is now.

With gratitude for over a decade of practice together,
Michael

P.S. — "Your intuition is only wrong if you are." You already know what functional practice feels like. This book just gives you the frameworks to understand why. I hope you see yourself reflected in here :)

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