Spacious Yoga

SPACIOUS YOGA Ashtanga Yoga in Bali with Iain Grysak Iain practices and teaches Mysore style Ashtanga in accordance with the guidance and standards of his teacher, Sharath Jois. He is Authorized Level 2 by the Sharath Yoga Center in Mysore, India. Iain’s Ashtanga practice is interwoven with deep philosophical influence from his Buddhist meditation practice and his explorations in embodiment, phenomenology, animism and systems biology/ecology. It’s difficult to pinpoint where my true yoga journey began, but to choose an arbitrary place to begin describing my yoga experiences; I am a 44 year old Canadian who has been practicing asana based yoga for 21 years and teaching for 20 years. My present yoga teaching mirrors my practice of the traditional Ashtanga method. I teach the Mysore style method, because my own experience is that this is what really works. Long term Mysore style practice is the only way to truly experience the unfolding of this method in the body, mind and nervous system in a sustainable and fully integrated way. I do also enjoy verbally teaching the subtleties of the practice in guided classes and workshops and I do offer these types of classes and courses which are intended to supplement a long term Mysore style practice. My approach is one that emphasizes alignment, meditative focus and self-exploration via the Ashtanga sequences. Because the Ashtanga system is so powerful, I tend to move students through it slowly and in a stable way. I teach a very grounded practice which can be fully integrated into one’s being and life in a sustainable way. For me, yoga is about using the body and breath as a tool to access and transform deeper layers of the self. This can only be done when one truly engages deeply and fully with each posture and movement.