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Sharath London blog posts

Here are a couple of blog posts written by Ashtangis about their experiences of attending a week of led primary classes with Sharath Jois in London August 2011. If you find any others please let me know: guy at ashtangabrighton.com Yoga Mama London Life On And Off The Mat Little Pink Kitchen The Journey Of […]

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Our week with Sharath in London Aug 2011

In mid August we took a week’s holiday from work to practice with Sharath in London as part of his European Tour. We had been planning to commute from Brighton which would have entailed a 3am start to catch the first train to King’s Cross every day, but even we’re not quite that insane. Luckily […]

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Sharath London Conference Notes

On the Sunday morning, the first day of the week, Sharath gave a Q&A session after practice. These are our notes from some of the more memorable bits: Yoga is for relieving the suffering caused by the 6 poisons which surround each of our hearts. The 6 poisons are: Kama (lust); Krodha (anger); Moha (delusion); […]

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Mysore style in Edinburgh

August saw Hannah and I catching a train up to Edinburgh for a mid week city break with my Mum, sister and nephew. On my last trip I’d found Bristo Yoga School located in the centre of Edinburgh to practice at during my stay. Karen who runs the school was rather sensibly away in a […]

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John Scott at Stillpoint yoga London

We’d been looking forward to John Scott’s evening workshops for some time, so it was with some considerable disappointment that we missed the first session due to the burst water pipe in Croydon which plunged the whole of the south east into complete chaos. Luckily we made it up to Stillpoint Yoga on the second […]

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15% off Narayani’s new Kirtan album

Our Friend Narayani is offering readers of the Ashtanga Brighton blog 15% off on her new album Maatri Sharanam. Maatri Sharanam (Take Refuge in the Mother), is a collection of traditional Sanskrit chants set to a range of beautiful melodies composed by Narayani. Mixing slow, gentle tempos with upbeat folk-style harmonies, and accompanied by tabla […]

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