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My journey into the world of Ashtanga Yoga

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योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः I got introduced to  Ashtanga Yoga  about a year ago and quite by chance. At that point of time, I was 2 years into being a reasonably regular yoga practitioner at a popular, local yoga studio and I enjoyed turning up at the studio every single time. All of a sudden, my Yoga studio shut down and I couldn’t imagine a life without Yoga as by then, I had integrated it into my life. That’s when one of my then Yoga instructors suggested that I look at pursuing  Ashtanga Yoga  (I keep thanking her for that). Till then, I had no clue what  Ashtanga Yoga  was all about—I assumed it was another style of Yoga with some variations of  asanas  I was familiar with.  So, in I walked into my 1 st  class on July 31, 2017 and a year later, here is who I am- a very different me, a better me. I wasn’t prepared for or aware of what the world of Ashtanga held and the wondrous wealth contained in  Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra . I know what I have discovered is perhaps not even