Top #10 Ashtanga Yoga Tips 

1. Create the right ambiance/attitude 2. Listen to your breathing 3. Movement and breath 4. The posture is the foundation 5. Stabilizing action 6. Clarification of the 6 directions 7. Pay attention to the feeling in the hands, feet, face 8. Practice at the same time and spot 9. It's okay if you understand 10. Do savasana for a long time. 1 hour practice::5 minutes savasana

It's extremely rare to have a long savasana offered in a public class if ever! Teachers really need to reconsider this and understand the importance of calming the nervous system. The more teachers incorporate this in public classes the more it becomes a consistent offering in more and more classes.

love how they're ribbing each other a little bit. lets you know that they are good natured and that they have a strong connection, which is one of the biggest benefits of yoga in my opinion- it gives you the ability to connect with people more deeply when you are at peace yourself! This is something I look for in a teacher and lets me know I can trust their advice

Purple Valley is top-notch content, I have got so many gems from only seven or eight videos. It is often rich in technicality taught by people who truly know the body which is very reassuring. There is so much great Yoga content online that enriches so many lives. I am very grateful for your teaching and insights in these unusual and uncertain times. I hope you are all well at Purple Valley. Thanks so much. Namaste:)

This is so helpful and should be mandatory viewing for beginners as it explains some fundamentals we often get wrong in the beginning of practice. Love.

While I have practiced Hatha yoga for 28 years, I am beginning an Ashtanga study and practice at home tomorrow. I was inspired by this Purple Valley channel. I just watched this video and am overjoyed that I began here. I look forward to the many lessons and videos to come! Thank you for the wonderful guidance and valuable points to consider🥰

This video helped me make a connection! For the last 3 weeks, I have been rushing out of Mysore and not doing shavasana for very long at all. For the last 3 weeks, I have been very frazzled and my practice seems to have come to a standstill. I was about to seek the help of an energy worker to figure out what is "wrong" with me. Thanks for the tips. I will write them down and integrate them into my practice.

Beginner here. Great tips, you can feel there's some deep understanding being shared. thank you.I usually fall asleep for a few minutes during Shavasana and come away very refreshed. Sometimes I worry this is wrong but it feels so right.

Doing shavasana for long time is very useful to relax every cell of the body....thank you

I'm so glad you mentioned savasana! It is something so neglected in yoga classes nowadays, especially in the west, but even in places like Thailand I've seen, where students hardly stay for more than a couple of minutes in final relaxation. I was taught from the very beginning to give my students long savasana, many of them guided. Most teachers I come across and talk to do not know how to give/teach savasana or instill it in the class. They feel very uncomfortable with this, and hence just breeze through it, and often give it as an option. Unfortunately, that is depriving the student of the most important and sweet part of the practice.

Absolutely aced tips! can’t agree more on all of them especially the last one, i often skip the savasana or give it a very tiny little time then back to studying, then get panic and feeling frustrated as the energy created finds not way out. thank you for sharing

Very instructive ! Thanks !

Yes! Love the tip on pushing yourself to understand hard things... thank you for the video.

I am glad that the ancient wisdom of INDIA (yoga and meditation) is being adapted and appreciated all over the world now..

Thank you for the #10. Om Shanti

These are so wonderful. Thank you.

Thank you to both Joey and Stu. Very useful.

Thank You...very helpful, especially the savasana. I am a yoga teacher and I have been neglecting that part of the practice

Thank you so much for these tips as I found them to be very helpful especially when you mentioned how everything comes from the midline and to practice shavasana for longer at the end of practices as I find myself speeding through this portion!

I love Joey !

Great tips. I take shivasana seriously, and in a Mysore practice seem to be the slowest, but I don’t think I’ve ever done one for that length relative to practice time. Will have to try.

Thank you very much for sharing your tips, they encourage me a lot.

This is super helpful!! Thank you for sharing.

I love your list of "Tips"! #1and #8 are especially needed for the Home Practitioner. I forget that being on time, in the same place is critical even at home . I also cheat on sukasana and need to increase that. Thank you for all the great tips.

As always very useful Pranam 🙏

Thanks for your advice!

Thanks for tips 😊🙏👍

Yoga with British accents is great, especially when then say Yoger

Very useful Tips, Thanks

Thank you for your views on Ashtanga yoga, it was informative.

Thank you so much for a very informative conversation.This help me a lot on my home practice. Great work as always, Namaste 🙏

All great however tip 10 was divine and perhaps the least practiced to that extent for that reason! Love it

Thank you for this! It's very useful and clear! I'll share it forward. ♥ Can't wait to visit you all in Purple Valley someday :)!!

that is very informational and helpful! thank you so much

Thanks Stu - great video as always! 👌🏻🔥

Greaat tips

I am a recently retired Oncology Nurse and would love to attend a beginners class

thanks for the share! much appreciated!

Love!

thx a lot , that was short and clear

Thanks for sharing 😊🙏

V Helpful ! Thank you

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That's so funny because I do actually always listen to heavy metal on my way to my classes and sometimes during my home practise. Slayer or Morbid Angel usually.

Thanks good

Thank youu

Which effect is this in video and which asana you are sitting at starting

guys what do you reckon about doing mediation after not savasana. I do mediation and yoga separately. you are probably going to say i have my priorities wrong haha. but for me to do ashtang then 15 minutes savansa then 20 minutes mediation is quite alot

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Hi! I do yoga and have started doing Ashtanga. How should I properly prepare my body for the sequences? What can you recommend?

forbidden in germany: employing kumbhaka during asana...

O find ashtanga male practitioners have odd shaped legs and arms. Stew is an exception.

1. practice. 2. repeat.

First tip: don't do padmasana, you will tear your meniscus like me 🪷💜🙏🏽

Shows nothing. Just talk

Most beneficial yoga video ever! Thanks Purple Valley ❤

Great advice.