Yoga Styles
Power Yoga is a general term used to describe a vigorous, fitness-based approach to Vinyasa yoga. Most Power Yoga is closely modelled on the Ashtanga style of practice. The term “Power Yoga” came into common usage in the mid 1990s, when several yoga teachers were looking for a way to make Ashtanga yoga more accessible to Western students…
Ashtanga means the “eight limbed path” – the eight limbs which guide us toward the ultimate experience of samadhi or oneness with the divine. Laid down by Patanjali, the great yogi philosopher, it includes the Yamas, Niyamas, Asanas, Pranayama, Pratihara, Dharama, Dhyana and Samadhi. Ashtanga yoga uses a prescribed sequence of asanas that are linked with the breath…












