You Can Learn 3rd Series
20-hour Teachers & Advanced Practitioners Intensive
with David Garrigues
May 8 – 11, 2025
This training is designed to demystify the 3rd Series of Ashtanga Yoga and to empower you to explore advanced postures with confidence. By applying David’s 7 Asana Principles, you’ll discover how to make challenging poses more accessible, connecting foundational postures with the intricate asanas of the 3rd Series.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:- How to use the 7 Asana Principles to create natural connections between foundational poses and complex 3rd Series postures.
- Safe, creative approaches to asana practice, utilizing steps, modifications, and drills that align with your current abilities.
- The integration of asana work with yoga philosophy, evolving your practice on and off the mat.
Program
May 8 – 11, 2025
Thu – Sun, 9:00 – 11:30 & 12:30 – 15:00
9:00 – 11:30
Mysore and Led Class Blend
Mysore Practice: Independent practice with personalized guidance.
Group Instructions: Exploration of connections between basic and 3rd Series poses, including steps, exercises, drills, and the use of props.
Pranayama and Bandha Work: working towards mastery of breathing techniques and internal energy locks.
12:30 – 15:00
Asana Theory & Philosophy
Asana Theory 1.5 hours: In-depth analysis of the progression from basic to complex poses. Detailed exploration of pose variations, modifications, and drills tailored to your individual needs.
Philosophy 1 hour: Discussions on the relationship between sacred texts (Upanishads, Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, etc.), the 7 Asana Principles, and their practical application in your practice and daily life.
Sunday afternoon special topic:
Dynamic Vinyasa Dimension of Ashtanga Yoga
This special class will take an in-depth look at the vinyasa of Ashtanga Yoga will focus on how proper vinyasa knowledge extends beyond memorizing the number of positions of the asana; you are also meant to know the vinyasa positions dynamically within your body. There is a great art to understanding the subtle progressions of movement that bring you into and out of each asana, exploring this refinement is what brings you into readiness, poise, beauty and alignment in your postures. We’ll look at how such vinyasa knowledge helps you understand how to refine your awareness and to learn to see the practice as chiefly dhyana, meditation.
Class Details:
Throughout the workshop, you will identify a set of progressive steps for mastering transitions and poses in the 3rd Series. Starting with basic steps and advancing to more complex actions, you’ll find suitable versions of each pose and learn how to approach them with confidence. The philosophy sessions will deepen your understanding of the asana principles and their connection to the broader teachings of yoga.
Outcome:
You will leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the 3rd Series, equipped with practical tools and knowledge to integrate these challenging poses into your practice.
Workshop taught in English.
Price:
Early Bird Full Training (before December 31, 2024): 495€
Normal (from January 1, 2025): 545€
Single sessions (morning or afternoon): 75€
Cancellation Policy
An admin fee of 30 euros will be deducted for cancellations made more than 21 days before the workshop.
Only half of the sum paid will be returned 8 to 20 days before the workshop.
Sum paid is non-refundable 7 days before the workshop.
Refunds are processed based on the date we receive your RIB/IBAN, which determines the amount refunded per our policy.
We don’t accept transferring of a paid reservation to another person after 2 weeks before the workshop.
We advise to those coming from out of Paris to purchase travel insurance as travel issues will not change this policy. Medical issues will also not change this policy.
As the teacher is confirming their presence and is guaranteed the amount of people who are attending 21 days before, we ask for your understanding of this policy.
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LOCATION
Ashtanga Yoga Paris
Room: Patanjali
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ABOUT DAVID: Since 1991, David has maintained an enthusiastic daily personal practice that is dedicated to āsana and Prāṇāyāma study in the Ashtanga tradition. His intense commitment to practice and to teaching inspires his students who form a diverse, soulful, open-hearted, and serious global learning community.
David was introduced to yoga at the age of sixteen when a friend taught him the classic set of postures known as Sūrya Namaskāra (Sun Salutations). David maintained a self-taught practice for more than a decade before everything changed when he met Marie Svoboda, Seattle’s “grand dame of yoga” in 1991. Attending her classes lit an everlasting fire for yoga in him and he immersed himself in a blazing, resolute study of yoga. During this time David also had the great fortune to study intensively with senior BKS Iyengar teacher Aadil Palkhivala attending weekly classes and participating in many intensives and teacher trainings.
David met Pattabhi Jois in 1993 and over the next two decades he traveled to Mysore, India to study at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute. In 1996, Pattabhi Jois granted David a teaching certificate; David is among a small group of Ashtanga Yoga teachers who received a teaching certificate directly from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. David returned to Seattle and opened the first-ever Ashtanga Yoga studio there.
David now lives in Philadelphia and is an internationally recognized yoga teacher and creator of the Āsana Kitchen video instruction series, one of the leading online yoga learning resources on YouTube. David travels extensively throughout the US, Europe, and India offering workshops, in-depth studies and retreats. He has numerous online courses and is the author of many books including, Vāyu Siddhi: Secrets of Yogic Breathing, Maps and Musings: Writings that Celebrate Haṭha Yoga and the Quest for Self Knowledge, Ecstatic Discipline: 46 Poems for Lovers of Hatha Yoga, Teaching Yoga With Verbal Cues, and Ashtanga Yoga Vinyāsa.
David’s mission is to help students of yoga flourish within the living, contemporary lineage of Ashtanga Yoga. He aims to be part of the circle of Haṭha Yoga lovers who are devoted to applying the teachings of Ashtanga Yoga in ways that promote physical, psychological, and spiritual growth in themselves and others.
