Welcome to Reiko's Yoga Blog!

Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog!


玲子です... Wait, wrong language! Let me try this again.


My name is Reiko! I'm originally from Japan, but these days I live in Austin, Texas, where I live with my awesome husband and teach yoga at Black Swan Yoga. I decided to start a blog so I could share with the world one of my life's biggest passions: Yoga! 


Every few of days I hope to share something which is connected to yoga. I may talk about the health benefits you receive from practicing yoga, the new yoga mat I just bought, instructions on how to do poses, an awesome experience I had while practicing, a yoga class or workshop I'm teaching (Oh yeah, I have one coming up soon!), or anything else that I can relate to yoga! I can be a bit all over the place sometimes, but that is exactly what my blog is for ;D


I was going to only have an introduction today with my blog, but I forgot about a cool workshop I'm teaching next weekend. Well, I remembered about it about two sentences ago while typing, lol. So here's the workshop:


Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga Workshop

I'll be holding the introduction to Ashtanga Yoga Workshop at the Black Swan Yoga's South Studio from 3-5pm on Saturday, June 23rd. 


What exactly is Ashtanga Yoga? Is it like Power Yoga?


Well, Ashtanga Yoga is sort of like Power Yoga in a sense... Ashtanga Yoga focuses on strength building, flexibility, toning, and cleansing like Power Yoga does, but Ashtanga Yoga is much more traditional than Power Yoga. 


What do you mean by "more traditional?"


In the very most basic terms, Ashtanga Yoga is an ancient system of yoga with fixed sequences, or fixed order of poses, and everyone all over the planet does the same sequences in Ashtanga Yoga. Pretty cool, huh? 


If you learn the sequences in Ashtanga Yoga in Austin, you can follow right along in an Ashtanga class in Germany, India, or Japan (though you might not understand everything that's being said!).


Ashtanga Yoga was introduced in an ancient text called Yoga Korunta before in 1900s.  The traditional sequences have been practiced since then.  Power Yoga is a modern version of Ashtanga Yoga, but Power Yoga gives the instructor a lot more freedom in how they teach. There are no concrete sequences in Power Yoga.




Anyway, I will get into a lot more in my workshop. you should come check out the traditional Ashtanga style of yoga on June 23rd. The Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga Workshop will be great if you are looking for something different to your yoga practice, want a challenge, or simply have two hours of free time :)


<3
Reiko


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