What a great way to kick off another beautiful weekend in Santa Monica. My girlfriend (we shall call her Yoga Woman) and I decided to participate in our regular yoga class with our favorite teacher, Anaswara. I’d describe Anaswara’s style as ‘classic moves with great concentration to the core all surrounded with very diverse music throughout the session’. She has 3 goals in her classes, 1) deep breathing, 2) work my core (a lot), 3) let her students go into meditation mode while providing a free flow session to some good music…. I mean, free styling vinyasa to ‘Land Down Under’, no yoga instructor has been able to top that in my book.

This is an awesome class and if I want to pack a weekend’s workout into an intense hour and a half yoga session – I make a point to attend Anaswara’s class every Saturday! She starts the class with some very simple, yet technical, moves while conducting a great deeeeeeeepppp breathing routine and then goes into some tough postures, all meant to engage the core and let you feel those muscles you either didn’t know you had or haven’t used for some time. What I enjoy most about her class is that she never does the same routine twice and always has a few new postures in her class…which is much appreciated because some instructors forget that although yoga is a routine, there should always be a sense of new and unknown, for this is life my friend.

Also- Anaswara is the only yogi who ends every class with a twist to the final meditation stage, she lets you enjoy some scented incense…I think this week was Jasmine.

Well yoga lovers, thank you for taking the time to read about my experience and I encourage you to visit Anaswara at Power Yoga on 5th street. Let her know YogaMan sent you and checkout the studio at poweryoga.com Be sure to visit again to learn about my next yoga experience. Also feel free to add me on twitter (YogaMonthMan) and Facebook (National Yoga Month).

Namaste & CHEERS

YogaMan