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.
What we offer here is study and practice from inside that current. 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 always been there in Mysore.
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 inside the living tradition that shaped Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya's yoga. Practicing before dawn in a thousand-year-old temple village, 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
Mysore's yoga heritage runs straight through the Wadiyar court and the Mandayam Śrīvaiṣṇava community it patronized. For centuries the kings of Mysore supported the ācāryas, temples, and Sanskrit colleges that preserved India's yogic and Vedāntic traditions. The same soil from which Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya emerged.
Kings and Yogis is the second film in the Mysore Yoga Traditions project. Through interviews with scholars, royal family members, and lineage holders, conducted while these voices remain in living memory, we are documenting a history the world's yoga practitioners have rarely seen told from the inside.
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.
From anywhere in the world
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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Film & Archive
Videos on Demand
Lectures from the conference archive and recorded teachings from senior scholars.
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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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