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Bon voyage Sarah, welcome Nick

Yesterday we said goodbye to Sarah who’s off to Goa to practice with Rolf and Marci for 3 months. Lucky girl! There were over 20 of us practicing at the morning Mysore practice, before even more of us descended on a local coffee shop. It was also a chance for us to meet Nick Evans […]

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Self Practice Group

As we know its all about self practice, and when it comes to Astanga some of us can become class dependent or teacher addicted. We never find the abilities and disapline to do it alone, when it comes down to it if you’re up to self practice you don’t need to see a teacher daily/weekly. […]

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Overcoming Obstacles

During my first three months of practising Mysore style Ashtanga, I’ve had many obstacles to overcome.  But two in particular seem to be rather prominent right now.  The one is (as gstar would say…) overcoming the issue of pain in the heels.  During Shari’s last led class (sniff, sniff) she told us not to shuffle […]

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Farewell Shari!

Today we said farewell to Shari who is leaving Brighton for Nancy Gilgoff’s Berlin workshop and then on to other adventures. We’ve been very fortunate to have her assisting Sarah over the last two summers. There was a good turn out at the coffee shop as you can see from the pics uploaded to the […]

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new classes

hello, my name is James and I am a recently moved teacher to the area. I finally have some classes up and running starting on 24th August Monday and Thursday 7.30-9.30pm at the Phoenix Centre, 2 Pheonix Place Brighton. All the information, and more, is on the website www.astangayogasussex.com

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Being a Beginner

I’ve been practising Ashtanga for just over 2 months now and threw myself in the deep end by going straight to the Mysore morning self-practice classes, with a little (understatement?) encouragement both from Guy and his teachers.  I’d only been to 2 led classes prior to that and nearly collapsed from exhaustion after both of […]

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