Ashta Yoga Authentic Approach

Ashta Yoga offers thoughtful, personalized yoga for individuals, groups, workplaces, and life’s meaningful moments — including private, partner, prenatal, mental-health-informed, recovery-friendly, corporate, and community-based practices — all grounded in traditional Ashtanga yoga. Alongside movement and breath, Ashta Yoga also offers Ayurvedic lifestyle assessments, gently translating ancient wisdom into daily living. These assessments create personalized rhythms that may include supportive daily routines, nourishing food guidance, relationship awareness, and movement recommendations — all tailored to your unique body–mind constitution. This work is beginner-friendly It is not about perfection — it is about steadiness, ease, and learning how to live well. ⸻ The Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga Ashtanga yoga is a complete system for living, not just a physical practice. The Eight Limbs offer a gentle framework for balance in daily life: • Movement (Asana): mindful postures that build strength, mobility, and awareness • Breath (Pranayama): breath practices that calm the nervous system and steady the mind • Personal Ethics: cultivating kindness, honesty, and care toward oneself • Social Ethics: living with integrity and awareness within community • Sense Withdrawal: learning healthy detachment from overstimulation • Meditation: gently training the mind to focus • Sustained Meditation: developing steadiness and presence • Realization : a natural sense of ease and inner balance Together, these limbs cultivate stability and ease in equal measure. ⸻ A Traditional, Human Approach Ashta Yoga is taught in a traditional, student-centered way. Teacher and student work together so that, over time, the student becomes less dependent on instruction and more rooted in their own breath, body, and awareness. Yoga, at its heart, is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. With Peace, Sarah Skinner , Founder Ashta Yoga