ashtanga yoga Newbie question

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My best advice to you is to work with a qualified

teacher who is either autorized or certified to teach

Ashtanga by Sri Pattabhi Jois (Guruji). Doing this

you will avoid injury, as a qualified teacher will

only give you poses that you can do properly. I would

suggest looking on ashtanga.com for a list of

qualified teachers in your area. One thing Guruji

says about Ashtanga yoga is that ANYONE can do it, the

only people who cannot are lazy people. Your previous

fitness is not a requirement, neither is previous yoga

"experience". And by the way, injuries can occur in

hatha yoga, ashtanga yoga, and even running on the

treadmill at your gym - as I former marathon runner, I

can promise you it is much easier to get injured by

running than by practicing ashtanga yoga! Just my two

cents for what its worth. Good luck and namaste...

--- gintonic3103 <no_reply> wrote:

> Hi everyone

>

> My first post here, and as you can see from the

> caption, I'm very new

> to ashtanga yoga and would like to seek some advice

> regarding when is

> the right time to start ashtanga yoga.

>

> I've been practising hatha yoga for about a year or

> so, and (I think)

> am reasonably fit (I run about 5km in the gym 3

> times a week). Just

> finished an ashtanga introductory course but am

> wondering whether to

> continue. To be honest, I like it a lot because

> it's more dynamic

> than the usual hatha yoga but am wondering if it's a

> bad idea

> (possible injury alert?) for someone with only a

> year of hatha yoga

> experience to continue with this. I spoke with my

> hatha teacher and

> she advised against it because of possible injuries

> from not knowing

> the correct alignment of certain poses. I do agree

> with her that I

> can't do all the poses with the correct alignment at

> this point in

> time. I also have a lot of problems with chatarunga

> (sp?) and the

> vinyasas (particularly the jump backs) - basically I

> was a runner in

> school and have never done any sports that trains

> the arms

> (therefore, pathetic arm strength).

>

> Any thoughts on this? I bought David Swenson's

> book, where he's so

> terribly encouraging and offers so many

> modifications to the poses.

> He's obviously a believer that ashtanga yoga can be

> done by anyone

> safely with modifications - but just wondering how

> you all realized

> that you were ready to try ashtanga/decide that

> ashtanga was the only

> form of yoga for you?

>

> Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere - did

> try shifting

> through the old posts but couldn't locate any

> question like this. Let

> me know if this has been discussed in another post.

> Many thanks!

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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