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 | Vigorous, flowing yoga classes fall under the vinyasa tradition and are among the most popular worldwide. Let's take a closer look at a few styles the vinyasa lineage. |
| What is Vinyasa Yoga?
Vinyasa is a general term used for hatha yoga styles in which the poses flow from one to the next with your movements synchronized to your breath. (Meaning the teacher says things like,"on an inhale come forward into plank. On an exhale, lower down to chaturanga.") But within the vinyasa classification, there is room for a lot of variation.
| Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga is the original modern vinyasa yoga. It was the first style to become popular worldwide which incorporated movement into a standardized series of poses. The series remains largely unchanged from when founder Pattabhi Jois began teaching his first western students in the 1970s.
| Power Yoga
Power yoga emerged in the 1990s as Ashtanga devotees looked for a way to bring yoga to a wider audience.
| Jivamukti Yoga
Jivamukti is also a direct descendent of the physicality of Ashtanga, though teachers are free to devise their own sequences and encouraged to include music and philosophical and spiritual teachings.
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