Ashtanga Yoga teacher Maria Villella demonstrates the entire Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with strength, grace and control. As you watch, and listen, to the video you will hear the vinyasas for each posture counted, the names of the postures as well as the opening and closing prayers all spoken in Sanskrit.

Yoga Teacher Kathryn Budig talks about arm balances, inversions, face-planting and teaching from a “place of knowing”. Turning the world upside down Arm balancing and inversion work is extremely fun. It’s beautiful, it’s inspiring. And people who are newer to Yoga get very excited by it. So it’s definitely a great hook to get people [...]