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Practices to Enrich Your Practice.

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⎯⎯ ABOUT ⎯⎯

Hi, I'm Michael.

Ashtanga yoga can be overwhelming.
Let me help.

I've been teaching yoga professionally since 2007. I specialize in Leadership and Resilience using Yoga Systems. This is a collection of my best resources, notes, and courses.

I'm a level 2 authorized Ashtanga yoga teacher, personal trainer, and functional range conditioning movement specialist.

I've worked one-on-one with thousands of students, studied and taught all over the world, and I'm just as passionate today as I was over 20 years ago, when I first started practicing.

Level 2 Authorized FRC Specialist 17+ Years

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Ashtanga Vinyasa

The practice · scaled to your time

A moving practice sized to the day — a few sun salutations and a short seated set, or a fuller sequence when you have it. You always know exactly what today is.

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Functional Range Conditioning

Mobility · joint by joint

Targeted joint work — PAILs, RAILs, CARs — for the postures that stop you. A little each day, so range actually changes instead of resetting.

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Pranayama

Breath · short daily doses

Breath practice matched to what you need — calm, energy, focus, sleep — in short, safe doses with clear timing. No guesswork.

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Meditation

Mind · minutes a day

A simple sitting practice that starts at a few minutes and grows only as far as you want. The habit matters more than the length.

Michael builds it, and Michael watches it. He sets the six-week arc, reads your weekly check-ins, and adjusts when life happens — a new injury, a rough fortnight, a week that needs less rather than more.

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🧘 Self-Practice · Included with membership

Ashtanga for the busiest person.

Support exactly how you need it. Getting on the mat should be the easy part — not a scavenger hunt for the right video. The Ashtanga Classics give you every traditional sequence ready to press play, the Practice Builder lets you assemble your own, and when you're ready you record your own practice video and your own count. Follow along, or be your own guru.

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Ashtanga Classics

Press play · every sequence

Half and full Primary, Intermediate, Third Series, and the classic combinations — each one ready to guide you, counted through. No more scrolling for the right video.

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The Practice Builder

Your sequence · your time

Assemble exactly the practice you want — a few sun salutations or a full series — sized to the minutes you actually have today. Easy to start, easy to keep.

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Record your own

Your video · your count

Film your own practice as you flow, and lay down your own vinyasa count in your own voice. Practice to yourself, on repeat — be your own guru.

Be your own guru. Some days you want a plan handed to you. Some days you just need the count and your own breath. Both live here.

Explore the Ashtanga Classics → Or open the Practice Builder →

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Vibe checks

10 seconds · per practice

Three numbers, one to five, tapped from email, SMS, or the floating widget on every page. Frequent enough to make patterns visible, light enough to never become a chore.

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Scrapbook

Visual record · per posture

A photo or clip of the posture you were working on, what props, what was notable. Pays off in years, not weeks. Public to the Student Union if you want it seen, private if you don't.

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Journal

Private text · per day

What you actually thought about today's practice, written in sentences, kept where no one else will read it. Reply to a vibe-check text in words and it lands here automatically.

One running timeline. All three feed into your dashboard with a 7- and 14-day stats card. Coaching reads from it. You scroll back through it. Nothing gets lost.

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Membership

Three ways in. Pick what fits.

Library

$5.50/monthEverything. The digital garden, fully open.

Scrapbook, Nudge, Journal — the full stack
20+ courses (Foundations, Functional Ashtanga, Advanced Practice)
Movement, Breathing, and Motive bots
The full Tech Support archive
Yoga Club shala feed (read + react)

Start with the library

Yoga Club Distance

$39/month or $390/yearEverything in the library, plus the live room.

Live classes — the cyber shala, open room
Drop in, do your work, log off when you're done
Post directly to the Yoga Club shala feed
Drop in at the WDC shala if you're nearby
No personal adjustments — this is community practice, not coaching

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Live Coaching

$100/month or $999/yearOne-on-one with Michael. This one stands on its own.

Direct video sessions on a recurring cadence
Personalized 6-week plans you can revise as you go
Async messaging between sessions
Mobility, breath, motivation, sequencing — whatever your practice actually needs
Or try a single $150 session first

Work with Michael

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1,800+ Lessons. From First Practice to Teaching.

Your path through the complete Ashtanga education system

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Course 1

◆ Video Series

Ashtanga Tech Support

Questions from the yoga corners of Reddit, answered on camera. Serious topics. Not-so-serious delivery.

35 episodes

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What do Ashtanga teachers jot down during Mysore?

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Functional Ashtanga

Functional Range Conditioning meets Ashtanga Yoga

Every Ashtanga pose demands specific joint ranges of motion. Functional Ashtanga breaks each asana down joint by joint—identifying the exact flexion, extension, and rotation your body needs—then maps it to FRC mobility protocols that build those ranges systematically.

Select a pose to see its joint-action requirements and targeted training protocols.