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The Shala
A yoga shala is a home for yoga-- and we'd love to open our doors to you.
Join our founder, Level 2 Authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher Michael Joel Hall for educational courses, live classes, and community events-- your own virtual studio.
The Collective
Do you teach or run a Shala of your own?
Create a group here. Functional Ashtanga allows teachers to focus on their own practice and style and allows students to feel supported with a familiar yoga teacher both ins
The Academy
Not sure where to start on your yoga learning journey?
This program is for anyone who needs support in learning and integrating meaningful and functional yoga into their life.
Private Coaching and Mysore
Education and mentorship that's customized to fit your individual requirements.
Private Coaching is ideal for yoga teachers and yoga practitioners who are serious about advancing their yoga practice or growing their teaching skills.
Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga is a perfect way to grow your own yoga practice. Its like receiving a private coaching session in an intimate group setting.
With a Studio Membership you will…
At Functional Ashtanga, we have a social sharing environment that lets you share your wins, lament the struggles, and meet new people– all with ease.
Are you a yoga teacher looking for an easy way to support your students? Our practice spaces lets you share your offerings with your community easily.
The Academy Membership provides…
Our Coaching membership can help you…
Private Coaching for Yoga Teachers & Yoga Practitioners is unique, online and personalized yoga coaching for teachers and practitioners.
This specialized private coaching is customized to fit your individual requirements and is ideal for yoga teachers and yoga practitioners who are serious about advancing their yoga teaching skills.
Ashtanga Yoga is a highly effective system of yoga originating in Mysore, India. It's straightforward design and emphasis on skill competency allows for individual development not often found in commercial yoga.
The straightforward nature of the sequence makes it easy to adapt for your own needs: whether it be preha, rehab, or training.
Practitioners learn the easy-to-follow sequenceWe teach practitioners the sequence to create and manage a sequence designed specifically for them
That's two-fold.
For one, we focus on incorporating practice in a meaningful, functional way.
Secondly, we teach yoga postures with a focus on Functional Range Conditioning (FRC®) principles.
FRC utilizes the latest advancements in scientific knowledge, combined with tried and tested training methods to increase ones active, useable ranges of motion by simultaneously improving articular mobility, strength/resilience, and neurological control.
In essence, this invaluable, and innovative training system improves the ability to control, and move ones own body.
On top of our pre-recorded studio-style class videos, we also offer monthly posture clinics on rotating posture categories.
We offer a flipped classroom mode for teaching Ashtanga Yoga and Functional Movementl that is learner-focused.
Instead of teaching everyone the same thing at the same time, we leverage pre-recorded classes, tutorials, and readings. These self-paced courses encourage competeny and autonomy.
The flipped classroom/mastery model isn't new. It's how Ashtanga yoga was originally taught-- and its how we continue to teach it today.
Practitioners are responsibile for memorizing a sequence so that they can practice autonomously. With that foundation, students can come into a space and practice at their own pace and in their own way, receiving assistance and feedback from an expert teacher.
