For this compilation of asana sequences I gathered demos from 22 Yoga teachers from all over the world. I hope these videos awaken the interest in the practice of postures as an example of what can be achieved through diligent effort. Seeing this images, reminds me of a well known B.K.S. Iyengar phrase: "When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist".
All bios were taken from the artists' websites.
ALEXANDER TAISHEV
Alexander Taishev has over 12 years experience in Astanga Yoga and is a qualified Hatha Yoga master. He has extensive experience in the field of dealing with body and mind and has practiced asanas, mudras and covered most fields of Pranayama. Since 1997 he has conducted regular Astanga and Hatha yoga lessons in Crimea and Moscow. Due to his teachings and experience Alexander integrates classical Hatha Yoga with the speed and strength of Astanga Vinyasa Yoga, therefore teaching asanas with emphasis on breathing.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qy32uvPVg
Official website: www.yogasattva.com.ua
ANA FORREST
Ana Forrest is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. Born crippled, her own life trauma and experiences, including physical abuse, drug addiction, epilepsy, and bulimia, compelled her to create Forrest Yoga and the Forrest Yoga Educational Library. Ana took her first yoga class on a dare at age 14 and became a certified yoga instructor at age 18. In her search to become a better healer and teacher, she studied Native American medicine and ceremony, Polarity Therapy, Homeopathy, Hands-On Healing, Martial Arts, Psychotherapy, and Regression Therapy.
Performance - part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcLhOlIk5I
Performance - part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQQnV57LvY
Official website: www.forrestyoga.com
ANDRE DEROSE
Born in 1967. He defines himself as a Yoga teacher, teaching for the last 25 years, 10 of each in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He recently opened his own school with his wife.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQhR-_u5Omg
Blog: www.andrederose.blogspot.com
Official website: www.yogavilamadalena.com.br
ANDREY LAPPA
Andrey Lappa is one of the most qualified and influential masters and professional teachers of yoga in the all ex-soviet territory. All his life he traveled and lived a long time in eastern countries: Mongolia, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Burjatia, Siberia and others, where he developed skills with world known teachers, as well as learned from concealed from general attention but unusually vigorous ezotheric-practitioners. His books: "Dynamic practices in classical yoga" and "Yoga: Tradition of Unification" become best sellers in 1999-2000 in ex-soviet countries.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbXkXooQL0
Official website: www.universal-yoga.com
B.K.S. IYENGAR
Yogacharya B.K.S.Iyengar (Guruji) is a living legend who has taught yoga in unique way to all his students. He finds the meaning of the yoga sutras by his practical search and regular practice of yoga. Thus, he has helped all to experience the wisdom of the yoga sutras. His style of teaching yoga is called "Iyengar Yoga" and is now being followed by certified teachers across the world.
Performance in 1938 - part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmOUZQi_6Tw
Performance in 1938 - part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BADXKj-9eE
Performance in 1938 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4VLo3Nr9a4
Official website: www.bksiyengar.com
DAVID SWENSON
David Swenson began practicing yoga at a very early age in 1969 at the age of 13. His older brother Doug was his first teacher. They practiced hatha yoga from whatever books they could find. David's introduction to Ashtanga came in 1973 when he met David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff in Encinitas, California. In 1975 David and Nancy brought K. Pattabhi Jois to the U.S. for the first time and Swenson was fortunate enough to be there. He then initiated studies directly with the master. Swenson made his first trip to Mysore in 1977 and learned the full Ashtanga system as it was originally taught by K. Pattabhi Jois. David Swenson is recognized today as one of the worlds foremost practitioners and instructors of Ashtanga Yoga.
Sun Salutation and variations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xeWmcXbmBY
Ashtanga Yoga performance - 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRW3JbE1Dc
Ashtanga Yoga performance - 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJfz8vmh1ac
Official website: www.ashtanga.net
DENIS ZAENCHKOVSKY
Certified Hatha Yoga teacher, studied in India under the guidance of Bal Mukund Singh (Delhi), Gopala Krishna (Bangalore). Attended classes at Iyengar Yoga center of Bangalore and training-intensives with Andrey Sidersky (Kiev), completed teachers training with Andrey Lappa (Kiev).
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwGyxcO9U-c
Official website: www.yoga108.com
EDWARD CLARK
Edward Clark is the creator of Tripsichore, the London-based yoga performance group that has delighted audiences around the world. He began studying yoga in 1979. Notable among his teachers are Narayani and Giris Rabinovitch, but he also admires Ashtanga vinyasa, Sivananda, Iyengar, and viniyoga practices. The Tripsichore group has practiced daily for the past 12 years, devising and refining its techniques for asana, pranayama, pratayahara, dharana, and dhyana. Edward fuses his keen artistic vision with a deep understanding of the essential pursuit of yoga practice. His classes are entertaining, demanding, and exhilarating.
Savage Kama: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0-nfXdxLyg
Tripsichore Yoga Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksT-YAiMxIo
Khonundrum with instructions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvlnbEa2rc
Khultra with instructions: www.pranamaya.com/assets_trip/Trip_05_khultra.mov
Deko vinyasa with instructions: www.pranamaya.com/assets_trip/Trip_03_simple.mov
Asana mix: www.pranamaya.com/assets_trip/Trip_08_Performance_Montage.mov
Group performance: www.tripsichore.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/earlydaysshowreel.mpg
Official website: www.tripsichore.com
KRISHNAMACHARYA
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya - yogi, healer, linguist, Vedic scholar, expert in the Indian Schools of thought, researcher, author... in other words, a legend. Born in 1888 in a remote Indian village, T Krishnamacharya who lived to be over hundred years old was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. If today, yoga is an inherent part of the everyday lives of millions of people across the world, it is due in large measure to the pioneering efforts of T Krishnamacharya who revived yoga in the early twentieth century.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_eTupTCbI
Official website: www.kym.org
LEENA PATEL
Leena Patel is one of Las Vegas' leading yoga and meditation teachers and a gifted Thai Yoga Massage therapist. She has taught athletes & dancers, supermodel Jaime King, muai thay fighter "JT" Williams, Celine Dion and the cast of 'A New Day...', Cirque du Soleil and the cast of Steve Wynn's 'Le Reve'. She is also the author of numerous articles on health, yoga and spirituality.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfBPB9K-0Rs
Official website: www.leenapatel.net
MARIA VOROBYEVA
Certified Hatha Yoga teacher, studied in India under the guidance of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (Mysore), Bal Mukund Singh (Delhi), Dr. Madavan (Tamil Nadu), Gopala Krishna (Bangalore), studied Iyengar Yoga under the guidance of Sergei Mihailov (Moscow), attended classes at yoga-ashrams of Rishikesh and Pondicherry, participated in training-intensives with Kali Ray, Dominic Corigliano (USA), Andrey Lappa and Andrey Sidersky (Kiev).
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4I4w0H2h0
Group performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD7r1hmFpzQ
Official website: www.yoga108.com
MIKHAIL BARANOV
Certified Hatha Yoga teacher, studied in India under the guidance of Dr. Madavan (Tamil Nadu), Bal Mukund Singh (Delhi), attended training-intensives with Shandor Remete (Australia), Andrey Sidersky (Kiev), completed teachers training with Andrey Lappa (Kiev).
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajXQx7jwtfs
Group performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD7r1hmFpzQ
Official website: www.yoga108.com
OLGA BULANOVA
Yoga teacher and founder of the Ashtanga Yoga Center, Moscow. She studied with Shri Jayakumar when he taught yoga in Russia.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oyL11E13q8
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5TEZ2ckAks
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtcVDwH__YI
Group performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD7r1hmFpzQ
Official website: www.yogalady.com.ru
RICHARD FREEMAN
Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968. He has spent nearly nine years in Asia studying various traditions which he incorporates into the Ashtanga yoga practice as taught by his principal teacher, K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. Richard’s background includes studying Sufism in Iran, Zen and Vipassana Buddhist practice, Bhakti and traditional Hatha yoga in India. Starting in 1974 he also began an in-depth study of Iyengar yoga, which eventually led him to Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga. Richard is an avid student of both Western and Eastern philosophy, as well as Sanskrit. His ability to juxtapose various viewpoints, without losing the depth and integrity of each, has helped him develop a unique, metaphorical teaching style.
Sun Salutation A with instructions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=obqDDLkh2I0
Sun Salutation B with instructions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaFa0XXepxM
Sun Salutation A with detailed instructions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwfUkWhQElI
Official website: www.yogaworkshop.com
RODNEY YEE
He was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, he took his first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion. Life is abundant and chaotic and keeps Rodney returning to asana, pranayama, and meditation. Teaching is still a main vehicle for Rodney to understand union. He has created dozens of DVDs through Gaiam, and has written two books, Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance, both with Nina Zolotow. He teaches workshops and retreats worldwide and leads teacher training intensives nationally.
Asana sequence with instructions - part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwQITTpoHDY
Asana sequence with instructions - part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJg_Gfzls7Y
Asana sequence with instructions - part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEO4LqXlNv8
Official website: www.yeeyoga.com
SEANE CORN
Sean Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher know for her impassioned activism, unique self-expression, and inspirational style of teaching that incorporates both the physical and mystical aspects of the practice of yoga. Her classes integrate dynamic vinyasa flow asana (linking movement with breath) with the application of precise alignment, meditation, visualization, intention and prayer to create an inner journey towards healing and empowerment.
Asana sequence with instructions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Zp8Go7yYc
Official website: www.seanecorn.com
SHIVA REA:
Shiva Rea, M.A., is a leading teacher of transformational vinyasa flow yoga and yoga trance dance worldwide. She began exploring yoga at the age of fourteen as a way to understand her name, given to her by her father, a surfer and artist. Her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage, tantra, ayurveda, bhakti, kalaripayattu, world dance, yogic art and somatic movement infuse her approach to living yoga and embodying the flow. She is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of vinyasa flow out in the world.
Inversions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBffP8trBs8
Sun Salutation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGXgoW70IB0
Asana practice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDarYVW8ab4
Asana practice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5nYS4vi0vI
Sun Salutation variations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFwe9sS8s30
Warrior Pose variations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBc5vquG33U
Official website: www.shivarea.com
SIMAO MONTEIRO
Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1982. Started Yoga in early 2001 and has, since then, dedicated himself to deeply study this philosophy, art and ancient tool called Yoga. In 2003 starts teaching Svatantrya Yoga after completing the teacher training with Edson Moreira. He has taught in severeal centers and gyms in Portugal and Spain and made field trips to India and Brazil.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMz4TuMBHw
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=81lLUhXWBmM
Blog: www.svatantryayoga.blogspot.com
SRI DHARMA MITTRA
Sri Dharma Mittra has spent most of his life in service to humanity, disseminating the ancient knowledge of how to achieve radiant health and spiritual development. Dharma was born in the late 1930's, and has studied Yoga since 1958. After meeting his teacher guru, Sri Swami Kalaishananda, he immersed himself in intense study and practice of the classical eight limbs of Yoga, and nine years of dedication full time practice of Karma Yoga. He was accepted and initiated as a sannyasi (one who renounces the world in order to realize God).
Asana sequence compilation: www.pranamaya.com/assets_ms/L1-KD-video.mp4
Sun Salutation A with instructions: www.pranamaya.com/assets_ms/L1-Beg_Asana.mov
Asana sequence: www.pranamaya.com/assets_ms/L-2-Adv_Asana.html
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDFAax6i7t4
Official website: www.dharmayogacenter.com
STEVE GREEN
Teaches ashtanga yoga in the tradition of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. Inspired by the integrative approach of Richard Freeman, his focus is on tapas, form and meditative movement. he has a patient and light-hearted approach empowering students to explore asana as a means to facilitate awareness.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu9Sq1RvuoA
Blog: www.prajnayoga.blogspot.com
THERESA ELLIOT
Theresa Elliott, Taj Yoga Director, has been fascinated by the capacity of the human body since early childhood. Her exploration began in routine children's sports, made its way through music and dance, and then on to yoga in 1987. Theresa became a certified Iyengar teacher in 1990 and has gone on to establish herself as a nationally recognized practitioner and teacher of yoga.
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQxFyvEOyrY
Official website: www.tajyoga.com
YOGANANTH
Yogananth was born to India’s infamous Yoga Guru, Dr. Asana Andiappan, who explored the therapeutic benefits of Asanas on a scientific level, based on the classical text of Thirumoolar’s Thirumandiram. He started learning Yoga from the watchful eye of his Father and Guru at the age of two. At the tender age of twenty five, Yogananth is well qualified in the field of Yoga having completed two diplomas (Yoga and Naturopathy, Yogic Science and Education), a Bachelor in Yoga and Naturopathy as well as a Post Graduate Diploma from Dr. MGR University in Chennai, India
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBEXplzJvdk
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCdbTcuWNIo
Performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_TGg-x2Hvs
Official website: www.yogananth.com
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OM TAT SAT
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