09/02/2026
The word first. In sanskrit every word grows from a root, a syllable called a dhātu that everything else is built on. Yoga grows from yuj, to yoke, and a person gets mapped the same way a language does.
Mūlādhāra, root and support, at the base of the spine, below it the old texts describe the kanda, a bulb, and say every channel in the body branches out from there. Seventy two thousand of them.
Then the part that surprises people: the philosophy and the physical practice come from two different places. Patañjali compiled the sutras roughly two thousand years ago and gave us the eight limbs, only three of his nearly two hundred lines touch posture, and there āsana just means seat. Everything you do on a mat arrived a thousand years later, from the nāth yogis in north india, an order that lived outside caste and took students everyone else refused. Matsyendra, and his student Goraksha, who wrote the earliest hatha texts we still have. Hatha yoga is theirs. so when you sit into a twist and your teacher calls it matsyendrasana, you are saying the name of a man who lived a thousand years ago.
Both are roots, what we practice is what they made together. The word for a tradition handed down whole is sampradāya.
And when Svātmārāma wrote the hatha yoga pradīpikā in the fifteenth century, before one posture or one breath, he listed the teachers who came before him by name, that is how the book our practice comes from opens. with credit.
So, every teacher on our schedule came in through a different door. yin, kundalini, sound, reiki, breath, hatha. Each taught by someone who was taught by someone, and none of us can see the end of that line. What reaches you in class is the philosophy transmitted until your teacher that class. We think that is the beautiful part.
Come sit with us this week, learn from our teachers, from all of us 🤍✨
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