Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a style of yoga as exercise created by K. Pattabhi Jois during the 20th century, often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga. He claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya; The style is energetic, synchronising breath with movements. 

The method is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit word Asana as

”seat, connection“ and the relationship to the Earth.​

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