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Practices to Enrich Your Practice.

1000's of Hours of Ashtanga Education

1000+ Hours

867 Guides

17+ Years

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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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Motive Bot

The planner · 6-week arc

Builds your plan around an honest why (sankalpa) and concrete targets (vikalpas). Texts your daily reminder. Reads your check-ins and helps you reassess every six weeks.

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Movement Bot

The diagnostician · 4-week protocols

Tell it the posture defeating you. It runs an FRC-style assessment and prescribes PAILs, RAILs, hovers, and CARs work — with embedded video for every exercise.

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Breathing Bot

The pranayama matcher · 3-week protocols

Match your goal (calm, energy, focus, sleep, depth) to your level. You get a concrete practice with dose, timing, and safety notes. Nothing generic.

And then there's Michael. The bots handle structure. He handles the judgment calls — the new injury, the rough fortnight, the plan that needs to be torn up rather than tweaked.

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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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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.

23 episodes

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The Ankle Has Four Corners and You Probably Only Use One

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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.