Ashtanga Traditional Yoga
Petri Räisänen

Ashtanga yoga combines a dynamic sequence of yoga postures with specific breathing techniques that warm and stretch the body safely. Practiced regularly, it generates multiple benefits, visible both physically and energetically: organs, muscles, nervous system, mind, spirit.

The teaching of ashtanga yoga is based on six series of asanas.
Following a series of interviews with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, one of the great masters of this yoga, Petri Räisänen gives us here the complete and definitive reference manual of the first series called yoga chikitsa (or therapeutic yoga) .
The richness of his views on traditional practice and philosophy of ashtanga yoga will delight both beginner and enlightened practitioners and teachers.

Petri Räisänen is a respected teacher of international renown. He is co-founder and director of Ashtanga Yoga Helsinki, one of the largest Ashtanga schools in the world. He was a devoted student of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois until his death in 2009.

The benefits of ashtanga yoga

- detoxification and body toning
- appeasing the mind and increasing concentration skills
- development of muscle power and joint mobility
- reduced stress and the risk of ligament injuries
- strengthening and balancing the respiratory and immune systems
- stimulation and cleaning of organs, muscles, nervous system and blood vessels
- improving the quality of breathing, regulating the energy flow
- release of blockages and obstacles, stimulation of the process of physical, mental and spiritual renewal
- awakening of spiritual awareness and trust

"An invaluable guide and a reference book for the student and the teacher."
Eddie Stern, co-founder of Ashtanga Yoga New York

Hardcover - 25.5cm x 23.5cm - Illustrations
191 pages
Author: Petri Räisänen
Editions Almora