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- Address:27 Waddell St NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
- Phone:(706) 338-4835
- Website:http://ashtangayogaatlanta.com/
- Rating:5.0
- Hours:
| Tue | 06:00 am -08:30 am |
| Wed | 06:00 am -08:30 am |
| Thu | 06:00 am -08:30 am |
| Fri | 06:00 am -08:30 am |
| Sun | 10:45 am -12:45 pm |
Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta
Reviews
Rated 5.0/5 based on 12 customer reviews.
priscilla payne
June 21, 2019 09:37
The way Todd teaches Mysore style Ashtanga is really something special. I have searched high and low for a teacher who could help me with my difficult condition for over a decade with no luck. I tried the "yoga celebrity" teachers too. Nobody seemed to be able to help me. It's actually a miracle I hadn't given up the practice completely! I was feeling like a fool who just kept giving my money to people so they could watch me struggle and provide nothing helpful. When I tried Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta I told myself it was the last time I was ever going to put myself in front of another teacher so they could watch me fail. I was truly at my wits end with this practice and I thought I'd give this thing one last shot. I am not local so I have to travel from Florida to get to this teacher. But it's totally worth it. Todd helped put me on the right track and everything finally makes sense. I feel so much healthier in my body and my mind. After so much failure I view him as the Alan Turing of yoga because he cracked the Enigma code. He has an incredible attention to detail and was able to notice some very subtle things that had a dramatic positive impact on my breathing and my alignment. I highly recommend it!
Zhanna Seglie
April 24, 2018 12:30
Love this studio so much! The Mysore style classes are truly the way to progress in your yoga asana practice with helpful and tailored hands on adjustments from experienced teachers (like years and years of experience). This is as authentic an Ashtanga experience as you can get. If you have wanted to try Mysore and go deeper in your yoga practice this is the place to go in Atlanta.
A Google User
April 24, 2018 12:30
Love this studio so much! The Mysore style classes are truly the way to progress in your yoga asana practice with helpful and tailored hands on adjustments from experienced teachers (like years and years of experience). This is as authentic an Ashtanga experience as you can get. If you have wanted to try Mysore and go deeper in your yoga practice this is the place to go in Atlanta.
A Google User
March 15, 2018 22:40
I have been a student of Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta for over three years, and I am so thankful that I found this place. Todd is a knowledgeable and intuitive teacher who expertly strikes the important balance of challenging his students to push past what they thought they were capable of while making sure they feel safe. This studio and this practice has brought significant growth to my yoga practice and my life.
The Mysore style of guided self practice is tremendously helpful in that it allows you to focus on your practice while receiving one on one adjustments and instruction from an experienced teacher. The consistency of moving through the same sequence each day helps you to learn from each posture and progress more rapidly, and the practice builds over time to ensure that you are always challenged. It is an all level class, well-suited both for complete beginners and experienced practitioners wanting to deepen their practice.
Todd and Brice are skilled teachers who have created a welcoming community at Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta. I highly recommend AYA!
Sarah Yoss
March 15, 2018 22:40
I have been a student of Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta for over three years, and I am so thankful that I found this place. Todd is a knowledgeable and intuitive teacher who expertly strikes the important balance of challenging his students to push past what they thought they were capable of while making sure they feel safe. This studio and this practice has brought significant growth to my yoga practice and my life.
The Mysore style of guided self practice is tremendously helpful in that it allows you to focus on your practice while receiving one on one adjustments and instruction from an experienced teacher. The consistency of moving through the same sequence each day helps you to learn from each posture and progress more rapidly, and the practice builds over time to ensure that you are always challenged. It is an all level class, well-suited both for complete beginners and experienced practitioners wanting to deepen their practice.
Todd and Brice are skilled teachers who have created a welcoming community at Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta. I highly recommend AYA!
A Google User
March 8, 2018 10:10
AYA has changed my life. I have been a long time vinyasa and heated yoga practitioner but ashtanga is when I saw the monumental shift both physically and mentally. AYA takes incredible care of their students and guides them in both a safe and challenging way. Todd and Brice care deeply for this practice and their students and that shines through every morning during Mysore. I am so grateful to have found AYA and plan to stick around a very long time! If you are at all interested in the ashtanga practice, I HIGHLY encourage you to check this shala out, they are the most experienced teachers in the area and it shows.
Ally Kupcewicz
March 8, 2018 10:10
AYA has changed my life. I have been a long time vinyasa and heated yoga practitioner but ashtanga is when I saw the monumental shift both physically and mentally. AYA takes incredible care of their students and guides them in both a safe and challenging way. Todd and Brice care deeply for this practice and their students and that shines through every morning during Mysore. I am so grateful to have found AYA and plan to stick around a very long time! If you are at all interested in the ashtanga practice, I HIGHLY encourage you to check this shala out, they are the most experienced teachers in the area and it shows.
A Google User
March 7, 2018 21:16
This is a fantastic studio because it is clear that the teachers, Todd and Brice, genuinely care about the students and are focused on enabling safe growth through the practice of yoga. This attitude naturally leads to the cultivation of a great community of students. It has been amazing to benefit from their years of experience and their study at the source of Ashtanga yoga in India -- Todd even having learned directly from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois! It has been inspiring to hear firsthand stories about his time spent studying directly with the progenitor of Ashtanga.
I have been practicing yoga for six years and Ashtanga at AYA for about the last one year. My life has changed and benefited greatly from my yoga practice in general, and a regular Ashtanga practice has really deepened and expanded those benefits for me, even in just a relatively short time. The discipline of the Ashtanga practice in particular has helped me to sustain a better structure for my life which, as a work-from-home consultant, can sometimes be challenging to maintain. Ashtanga is very directly focused on drawing the senses more inward, with the centrality of drishti, a quiet room, and moving through a known sequence at one's own pace, according to the breath. While I think that I am able to experience some of the benefits of turning my attention inward through my practice of other styles of yoga, to me this aspect seems amplified in the Ashtanga practice.
I also think that the only safe and effective way to learn and regularly practice some of the poses that form even the primary series of Ashtanga is through Mysore-style classes, which are a hallmark of traditional Ashtanga. I teach led group yoga classes myself, and although I do also enjoy and benefit from taking such classes as a student, I don't personally feel there's any way to work, for instance, Garbha Pindasana, Janu Sirsasana C or Marichyasana D into a led group class without either assuming prior knowledge, specifically slowing down and workshopping the pose in detail, or risking injury to some students. Because of the very distinct way that teaching happens in a Mysore class, with every student moving at their own pace, and being directly and individually instructed in a pose as they are adding it to their practice, it becomes possible to safely integrate advanced poses into a daily practice. This possibility opens up an avenue for physical and mental transformation. Further, the Mysore class structure makes it possible for the teacher to routinely provide physical adjustments to all students. I am quite certain that I would be nowhere near binding on my own in Marichyasana D, for instance, were it not for repeated and consistent physical adjustments in the pose over time -- so again, possibilities are opened due to the way that Ashtanga is taught.
Ashtanga may not be the right practice for everyone, but if you are looking for ways to deepen your experience of yoga, I heartily recommend giving it a try and I believe you will not go wrong by choosing to do so at AYA. For people new to yoga or experienced practitioners, embarking on an unfamiliar practice can be daunting. I can say that I started my practice with the beginner program at AYA (since I wanted to learn from the ground up and take a beginner's mind with the practice), and it was both a great, approachable and digestible introduction to Ashtanga and a good bargain as well!
Joshua Jones
March 7, 2018 21:16
This is a fantastic studio because it is clear that the teachers, Todd and Brice, genuinely care about the students and are focused on enabling safe growth through the practice of yoga. This attitude naturally leads to the cultivation of a great community of students. It has been amazing to benefit from their years of experience and their study at the source of Ashtanga yoga in India -- Todd even having learned directly from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois! It has been inspiring to hear firsthand stories about his time spent studying directly with the progenitor of Ashtanga.
I have been practicing yoga for six years and Ashtanga at AYA for about the last one year. My life has changed and benefited greatly from my yoga practice in general, and a regular Ashtanga practice has really deepened and expanded those benefits for me, even in just a relatively short time. The discipline of the Ashtanga practice in particular has helped me to sustain a better structure for my life which, as a work-from-home consultant, can sometimes be challenging to maintain. Ashtanga is very directly focused on drawing the senses more inward, with the centrality of drishti, a quiet room, and moving through a known sequence at one's own pace, according to the breath. While I think that I am able to experience some of the benefits of turning my attention inward through my practice of other styles of yoga, to me this aspect seems amplified in the Ashtanga practice.
I also think that the only safe and effective way to learn and regularly practice some of the poses that form even the primary series of Ashtanga is through Mysore-style classes, which are a hallmark of traditional Ashtanga. I teach led group yoga classes myself, and although I do also enjoy and benefit from taking such classes as a student, I don't personally feel there's any way to work, for instance, Garbha Pindasana, Janu Sirsasana C or Marichyasana D into a led group class without either assuming prior knowledge, specifically slowing down and workshopping the pose in detail, or risking injury to some students. Because of the very distinct way that teaching happens in a Mysore class, with every student moving at their own pace, and being directly and individually instructed in a pose as they are adding it to their practice, it becomes possible to safely integrate advanced poses into a daily practice. This possibility opens up an avenue for physical and mental transformation. Further, the Mysore class structure makes it possible for the teacher to routinely provide physical adjustments to all students. I am quite certain that I would be nowhere near binding on my own in Marichyasana D, for instance, were it not for repeated and consistent physical adjustments in the pose over time -- so again, possibilities are opened due to the way that Ashtanga is taught.
Ashtanga may not be the right practice for everyone, but if you are looking for ways to deepen your experience of yoga, I heartily recommend giving it a try and I believe you will not go wrong by choosing to do so at AYA. For people new to yoga or experienced practitioners, embarking on an unfamiliar practice can be daunting. I can say that I started my practice with the beginner program at AYA (since I wanted to learn from the ground up and take a beginner's mind with the practice), and it was both a great, approachable and digestible introduction to Ashtanga and a good bargain as well!
A Google User
March 7, 2018 20:57
Have you ever been curious about what it's like to have one-on-one attention during your yoga practice, even if you're in a room full of other students? If this is something you're interested in, Mysore style Ashtanga Yoga at AYA is really worth checking out.
The personalized feedback and an inviting community at AYA have converted me to Mysore classes. Todd gives great input and adjustments on how to improve your alignment in downward dog, urdhva dhanurasana, headstand, or whatever pose in the sequence you're working on. When I used to take more standard vinyasa flow classes, I never felt like I had the chance to understand a pose and improve at it over time. There was just very little individual feedback, so it never felt like I could really dig into the nuances of a pose. That's never the case at AYA.
If you're looking for a place where you get to really deepen your practice and have your yoga teacher know you by name, AYA is the place. Thanks Todd and Brice for building such a great community!
Ari Schlesinger
March 7, 2018 20:57
Have you ever been curious about what it's like to have one-on-one attention during your yoga practice, even if you're in a room full of other students? If this is something you're interested in, Mysore style Ashtanga Yoga at AYA is really worth checking out.
The personalized feedback and an inviting community at AYA have converted me to Mysore classes. Todd gives great input and adjustments on how to improve your alignment in downward dog, urdhva dhanurasana, headstand, or whatever pose in the sequence you're working on. When I used to take more standard vinyasa flow classes, I never felt like I had the chance to understand a pose and improve at it over time. There was just very little individual feedback, so it never felt like I could really dig into the nuances of a pose. That's never the case at AYA.
If you're looking for a place where you get to really deepen your practice and have your yoga teacher know you by name, AYA is the place. Thanks Todd and Brice for building such a great community!
Booker Linkhorn
January 8, 2018 03:13
Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta (AYA) is an ideal studio to practice your form! As someone who needed to refine my practice using more detailed instruction to maximize physical functionality while living with a neuromuscular condition; my AYA instructor is taking me beyond what I thought was possible in a caring and motivational environment.