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Class Summary
| Date: | | 6th Aug 2012
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| Time: | 6:30 pm
| | Duration: | 120 minutes
| | Class type: | Mysore
| | Class description: | The traditional method by which Ashtanga Yoga is taught in Mysore, South India. Students are individually and gradually taught the Primary Series of Ashtanga until they are able to practice the sequence from memory. When Primary Series is complete, Intermediate Series then follows. Class is open to anyone interested in learning this method. Students may arrive anytime within the first hour of the class.
| | Class level: | Beginners to Intermediate to Advanced to All levels
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Joyce
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Authorised by Sri K Pattabhi Jois in April 2010, Joyce is the first teacher from the Philippines to be awarded this honour. She has made it her life's work to share the joy of Ashtanga Yoga, as taught by her Guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Sharath R. Jois and Saraswathi.
Joyce first began practising Ashtanga yoga in June 2005 with Clint Orchuk. She was instantly hooked to the synergy, beauty and peace that she felt when experiencing the union of movement with breath. By November of the same year, she had participated in David Swenson's 40-hour workshop at Pure Yoga. Filled with so much inspiration and enthusiasm, she practised as much as she could and when the time was right she made her first visit to Mysore to learn with her Guruji Sri K Pattabhi Jois himself.
During her first 3 months in Mysore, Joyce very quickly realised that she would like to begin teaching and to impart this great knowledge she had begun acquiring in Mysore. To form a solid foundation of yoga practice and philosophy, she travelled to the United States twice, first to take a 400-hour Yoga Alliance teacher training with Baba Hari Das in Mount Madonna Yoga Centre (California) and then to take another 400-hour Yoga Alliance teacher training with Greenpath Yoga in San Francisco. Despite the depth of knowledge she had already gained, Joyce was firm in her conviction that she must continue learning Ashtanga Yoga in the traditional way - hence she must stay for as long as she can in Mysore - and made the decision not to return to Hong Kong until she was ready to teach.
Since December 2005 Joyce has made 10 extended visits to Mysore and completed her Level 1 Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training. She has also studied with world-renowned teachers such as Clayton Horton & Rolf Naujokat. Although the learning continues, she is now one of the relatively small number of teachers in the world qualified to teach Ashtanga Yoga in the 'parampara' style of Krishnamacharya. Joyce has also taught in Sri Lanka (Body Bar & Ashtanga Galle) and the Philippines (Pulse yoga, Greenpath Boracay & Boracay Yoga). |
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