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Ashtanga Energetics
How do you feel at the end of your practice?
Exhausted or enlivened? Stiff and achy the next day, or lighter, more connected and ready to get on with your life?
We're often taught to associate a strong Ashtanga practice with effort and pushing through. But what if softening could create strength, and space could become support?
What if your practice gave you more energy than it took?
When we begin to pay attention to how we breathe, organise ourselves and direct our movement, we can start to recognise the habits of tension that keep us stuck — and discover a different way to move, breathe and practise.
Do you often feel stuck, stiff or like you're working harder than you need to?
Do you find yourself pushing through your practice, carrying tension or feeling depleted rather than enlivened?
Are you ready to find a different way — one that helps you work with your body, soften unnecessary effort and feel more connected, balanced and supported?
For years, I was constantly getting injured and feeling stiff and achy a day or two after practising. Even after years of Ashtanga, I was still trying harder.
So I turned my attention to something that had always been part of the practice, but that I hadn't fully understood: its energetic principles.
We learn about breath, bandha and drishti in Ashtanga. We hear the instructions, learn where to look, how to breathe and how to engage. But how often do we stop to explore what these things actually do? How they relate to one another, and how they change our experience of a posture?
As I began to explore these relationships more deeply, everything changed.
I started to understand the practice less as a series of shapes to achieve and more as a whole-body experience — how I breathed, where I directed my energy, how I related to the ground, and what happened when I stopped forcing and started paying attention.
I also found a reason to practise that went far beyond achieving a pose.
WELCOME TO Ashtanga Energetics
Imagine a practice where you can move with less effort, respond to what your body needs, and find a greater sense of balance and ease.
What could change in six sessions?
Over six weeks, we'll explore the automatic responses that can leave us feeling stuck, stiff or working harder than we need to.
Through teaching, demonstration and guided practice, you'll discover how energetic direction, breath, bandha, drishti and awareness can change your experience of the postures.
You'll explore how the breath leads movement, how bandha relates to your centre and your relationship with the ground, how energetic direction creates support and space, and how drishti gathers your attention.
You'll begin to recognise where you're holding unnecessary tension, explore different ways of organising your body and develop the confidence to make your practice work for you.
Rather than learning more instructions to remember, you'll begin to recognise what's happening within a posture, explore different ways of organising yourself and develop confidence in your own experience.
The aim isn't to remove challenge. It's to understand when effort helps, when it gets in the way, and how strength and softness can work together.
So that your practice becomes something that supports you — physically, mentally and energetically — rather than another thing to push through.
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
By the end of Ashtanga Energetics you will have learned…
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01/ You'll see alignment differently.
Move beyond trying to reproduce the shape of a posture. Understand the principles that organise it, and discover how they apply to your own body.
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02 / You'll learn to work with your body, not against it.
Explore ways to approach limitations, recurring discomfort and injury with greater awareness. Develop the confidence to adapt your practice rather than forcing yourself into a predetermined shape.
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03/ You'll discover a new relationship with breath, bandha and drishti.
Understand how these elements work together, and how they can change the way you experience a posture — from the foundation to the direction of movement, from effort to ease.
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04 / You'll understand energetic direction
Explore how grounding, drawing in, lifting and creating space influence the way you move. Begin to recognise how the direction of your energy changes your relationship with a posture.
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05 / You'll experience your practice differently
Discover how greater awareness can change the quality of your practice. You may find more space, a deeper connection between breath and movement, and a greater sense of freedom to explore rather than simply repeat.
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06 / You'll learn to trust your own experience.
Develop the confidence to recognise what's happening within a posture, ask questions and experiment with different approaches. Begin to rely less on external instructions and make your practice your own.
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