Ashtanga Yoga Philadelphia

“The one Light appears in diverse forms”
- Atharva Veda

“Master your breath, let the self be in bliss,
contemplate on the sublime within you”

-Shri T Krishnamachaya

“When one moves into deep yoga, the fire of the soul transforms into tapas, taking the form of Uma Parvati. One’s desires can never be suppressed, yet they can be turned within, releasing all negativity and allowing a peacefulness to permeate the restlessness of their expression.”
- Shambhavi L. Chopra

Discernment and understanding through yoga arise within a space of imaginative embodiment, a place where the inner self learns to move, breathe, and perceive without the weight of pretense.

Ram Dass said, “In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

Practice invites us home. Each breath is a sanctuary, a quiet sovereignty within, which the mind can dissolve its grasping.

▫️December 3 Week
Introduction to Ashtanga

DEC 1-18
7:30-8:15AM
OR
8:30 - 9:15AM

ॐ November Introductory Courses ॐ

Nov 3 - 26

❖ 7:30 - 8:15 OR 8:30 - 9:15am ❖

ॐ Evening Vinyasa Sadhana Classes begin tomorrow!

☀️All are welcome. Cash or Venmo drop in only classes.

🌷Working with the body for presence and transcendence. In this class we utilize asanas combined with specified breathing and energetic techniques. Each class includes classical finishing postures and all levels pranayama.

🌙Learn to sense and orient from harnessed energy within the central channel of the body (shushumna), merging the physical aspects of prana and apana (sun and moon).

🪷This class develops techniques towards steadiness and inwards focused attention, assisting the practitioner towards a meditative, intuitively connected state.

➖sliding scale $25 - $35
Current monthly Mysore pass holder price $10 - $15

“When there is no Me, that is Liberation, and when there is ‘Me’ there is Bo***ge. Consider this carefully, and neither hold on to anything nor reject anything.”
- Ashtavakra

“True joy lies in dwelling on thoughts of Divine.”
-Neem Karoli Maharajji

Join us Monday evening, for the New Moon Meditation with Ali Kenner!

ॐ September 22nd 7-8:15PM at the Shala
❖ This is a donation based, hour long class beginning with gentle movement and a seated breathing practice, followed by relaxation while Ali plays the gong.
❖ read more on our website

ॐ Registration is also open for October Introductory Courses ॐ

Oct 6 - 30

❖ 2 timings ❖

❖ 7:30 - 8:15 OR 8:30 - 9:15am ❖

We are so thrilled to have Ali with us offering Moon Meditations each full & new moon ॐ
➖ beginning September 22nd 7-8:15PM at the Shala
➖ Donation based, hour long classes will begin with gentle movement and a seated breathing practice, followed by relaxation while Ali plays the gong.
➖read more on our website
➖Ali Kenner is a sensory ethnographer and community educator who splits her time between Philadelphia, PA and Upstate New York. Her classes and workshops invite gentle movement, deep listening, and restorative relaxation. Her book, Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change (Minnesota University Press, 2018), describes how people with asthma use sensory knowledge to navigate difficult environments. Ali has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2010 and is also a Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at Drexel University.

ॐ September Introductory Courses Begin on Labor Day ॐ

Sept 1 - 25

❖ 2 timings ❖

❖ 7:30 - 8:15 OR 8:30 - 9:15am ❖

“The highest goal to which a human being can and ought to aspire does not lie in some separate realm or ‘outer’, extrinsic world, but is, rather, within oneself, as one’s core intrinsic being.”

Ian Whicher