The living tradition behind modern yoga.
Online Studies and Immersive Programs in Mysore, India.
The yoga which has flowed from Mysore into world culture did not arise in isolation. It came through great teachers like Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya and Pattabhi Jois, but it also came from a tradition, a community, a court, and a lineage of teachers whose work spanned scripture, philosophy, ritual, as well as āsana for many generations before it ever reached its current form.
We do not speak for that tradition, and we do not claim to represent it. We are students of it. What we share here is what we have learned so far, over many years of study in Mysore: āsana, mudrā, and prāṇāyāma in the method of Śrī B. N. S. Iyengar, the oldest living teacher of Ashtanga Yoga, who turns 100 in 2026, alongside the texts, chanting, philosophy, and the traditional ways of learning that have long been part of Mysore. We share it in the spirit of service, and we work to keep it within reach of every sincere student.
Three Immersive Programs
200hr Traditional
Ashtanga Immersion
A guided month in Mysore and Melkote with daily Ashtanga, the Yoga Conference, and direct access to Mysore's senior teachers and Sanskrit scholars. Yoga not as a series, but as a living tradition.
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Mysore Yoga
Conference
Ten days in Gokulam with Mysore's senior Sanskrit scholars. Daily Ashtanga practice in the morning, an afternoon lecture series, and direct access to the living tradition behind the practice.
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Melkote Yoga
Immersion
Eight days of study and before-dawn practice in Melkote, the thousand-year-old temple village where Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya's yoga began. With Dr. M. A. Alwar and Andrew Eppler.
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Light meeting matter. Prakṛti and Puruṣa, every morning. Mysore · photograph by Andrew Eppler
Documentary Film · Mysore Yoga Traditions I
Mysore Yoga Traditions
The film at the foundation of this work
What the world has come to call Ashtanga Yoga grew out of the broader culture of Mysore, where temple ritual, Sanskrit scholarship, and daily sādhanā have coexisted for centuries. The story of how that culture gave rise to a global practice has rarely been told from the inside.
Mysore Yoga Traditions documents that world through the voices of elders, scholars, Sanskrit teachers, and lineage holders. It is the first film in the project, and the foundation everything else has grown from. A clear, honest look at the philosophical and cultural roots of modern yoga as it emerged from Mysore.
Documentary Film · Mysore Yoga Traditions II
Kings and Yogis
History in living memory
For centuries, Mysore has been one of India's living centers of Sanskrit scholarship, where the Yoga Sūtras, the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Vedāntic tradition have been studied and taught in the Maharaja's Sanskrit College, the Parakāla Maṭha, and the Mandayam Śrīvaiṣṇava community, with the support of the Wadiyar court. Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya emerged from this world.
Kings and Yogis is the second film in the Mysore Yoga Traditions project, made with the scholars, the elders, and the royal family of Mysore. We are recording the current perspective within that community, as they tell their own story.
Ten percent of all proceeds supports the creation of the Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya Yoga Museum in the room where he once taught āsana, within the Maharaja's Sanskrit College.
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Online Studies Program
For students who cannot come to Mysore, or who want to keep the study going between visits, the Online Studies Program brings the same teachers and the same material to where you are.
Live sessions in Sanskrit chanting and philosophy with the senior scholars of Mysore, alongside recorded courses in āsana, prāṇāyāma, mudrā, and the philosophical foundations of the practice. The same study, paced for life back home.
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Other ways in
Online Library
Online Philosophy Library
Recorded lectures and teachings from Mysore's senior Sanskrit scholars on the Yoga Sūtras, the Bhagavad Gītā, and the broader philosophical tradition.
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Writing
Blog
Reflections from Mysore on practice, the teachers, the texts, and four decades on the mat.
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Lineage
The Mysore Lineage
The teachers, scholars, and centuries-long parampara behind the yoga that flowed out of Mysore.
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