Ashtanga (vinyasa) yoga

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Ashtanga yoga (not to be confused with Patanjali's aṣṭāṅgayoga, the eight limbs of yoga) is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of medieval hatha yoga. Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The style is energetic, synchronising breath with movements. The individual poses (asanas) are linked by flowing movements called vinyasas. Jois established his Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, Karnataka, in 1948. The school created the "Mysore style" of teaching in which students practice the sequences they know at their own pace, and are instructed individually by the teacher. Ashtanga yoga has given rise to various spinoff styles of Power Yoga.

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