Mysore Yoga Traditions
The living tradition behind modern yoga —
still in Mysore, still unbroken.
Immersive programs in Mysore, India — led by the scholars and teachers who carry it forward.
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, particularly in the method of Śrī BNS Iyengar, but also the texts, chanting, philosophy, and the traditional ways of learning that have always been there in Mysore.
Come to the source
200hr Traditional
Ashtanga Immersion
A guided month in Mysore and Melkote — 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 greatest living Sanskrit scholars. Daily Ashtanga practice, extraordinary lectures, and direct access to yoga's living roots.
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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 Sri M. A. Alwar and Andrew Eppler.
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Documentary Film · Mysore Yoga Traditions II
Kings and Yogis
History in living memory
Mysore's yoga heritage runs straight through the Woḍeyar 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.
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Online Studies
Texts of the tradition, with Mysore's scholars
The Patañjala Yoga Sūtras, Bhagavad Gita, and Sāṅkhya Kārikā — taught verse by verse by Dr. M. A. Alwar and Dr. H. V. Nagaraj Rao. Permanent access. Yoga Alliance CEUs.
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Video Library
Films, lectures, and conversations
The original Mysore Yoga Traditions documentary, plus interviews with elders like Dr. TRS Sharma and Manju Jois — and a growing archive of teachings from Mysore.
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Blog
Reflections from study and practice
Notes from ongoing study — the Upaniṣads, the Gita, conversations with scholars in Mysore. Written by Andrew Eppler, updated regularly.
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