Located in the heart of downtown Boulder, the Yoga Workshop, which was established in 1987, is the one of the oldest and most well established Ashtanga yoga studios in the United States. At the Yoga Workshop we teach Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in the tradition of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, South India (www.kpjayi.org). As we evolve as a learning center offering classes, courses and workshops that shed light on the interpenetrating nature of yoga with all other aspects of life, we welcome your questions, feedback and insights.
Through all classes at the Yoga Workshop we teach a dynamic, focused, and deeply organic approach to the 8 limbs of classical yoga. Our method of practice, teaching and philosophy are grounded through the Ashtanga Vinyasa lineage of non-dualistic experience (advaita vedanta). This approach is recognizable in Hindu and Buddhist contemplative traditions, and through the direct experience that the practice itself uncovers.
Richard Freeman, the Yoga Workshop’s founder, is a Certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher. Other members of our teaching staff have studied with K. Pattabhi Jois both in Mysore, India and in the United States.
As a learning center we offer three threads of teaching; Community Classes, Master Classes, and Yoga in the World Classes. These threads of teaching are interconnected strands within the practice which when braided together bring balance, depth and continued insight into the nature of reality.
We offer daily classes for students of all levels. In traditional Mysore style classes students practice individually, working on whichever series or therapeutic loop they are currently practing with personalized assistance from the teachers. Our guided classes are designed to teach the fundamentals of the internal forms of Ashtanga yoga; the sequencing of postures, alignment, breathing, bandhas, mudra and dristi.
