01
Mysore with Krista
Practice the portion of the Ashtanga sequence you have learned at an appropriate pace while Krista offers individual instruction within the shared Mysore room.
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Breath Under
Masterclass 03 · October 18, 2026
Breath Under
Pressure
How to Breathe Through the Hardest Parts of Your Practice
A complete morning of Mysore practice followed by an active, experiential masterclass exploring breath, stability, effort, pranayama, and the places where practice becomes most demanding.
Part One
Mysore with Krista
8:00–10:00 AM
Part Two
Breath Under Pressure
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Complete Course
$85
Mysore + Masterclass
The practice behind the practice
Breathing feels simple until the practice gets hard.
The breath reveals
what effort conceals.
Most practitioners can maintain a steady breath while the practice feels manageable. The real skill appears when the bind gets tighter, the jump back becomes heavier, or the backbend feels uncertain.
This masterclass examines what happens when effort, compression, fatigue, fear, and concentration change the way we breathe—and how the breath can organize movement instead of merely surviving it.
Rather than letting the posture dictate the breath, we will learn how to use the breath as an active guide through challenge, transition, and recovery.
One complete morning
Practice first.
Then explore what practice reveals.
Registration includes both the Mysore session and the active, experiential masterclass. The two parts are designed to be experienced together.
02
Breath Under Pressure
Use postures, transitions, movement experiments, and accessible pranayama to understand what happens when the breath becomes shallow, rushed, forced, or unconsciously held.
Mysore practice and the masterclass are offered together as one complete course and cannot be purchased separately.
What we'll explore
The breath is part of every posture.
We will use familiar postures, transitions, and breathing practices to make the relationship between breath, pressure, effort, and attention easier to feel and understand.
How the diaphragm and rib cage support movement
Ujjayi beyond simply making sound
Why we unconsciously hold the breath
Breath, internal pressure, and the bandhas
Breathing through twists, binds, and compression
Breath timing in jump backs and transitions
Using breath in backbending, strength, and balance
Accessible pranayama and nervous-system regulation
Who should attend
For practitioners who want the breath to lead the practice.
This course is appropriate for newer and experienced Mysore students, especially anyone who loses the breath in demanding postures, rushes transitions, braces under effort, or wants a steadier and more sustainable relationship with practice.
01
Breath Mechanics
Clear teaching about the diaphragm, rib cage, Ujjayi, pressure, and efficient breathing.
02
Movement Exploration
Use postures and transitions to feel how effort, compression, and timing alter the breath.
03
Accessible Pranayama
Practice breathing techniques that support awareness, recovery, and nervous-system regulation.
04
Individual Application
Apply the work to the places in your own practice where the breath becomes most difficult.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Join Krista for practice, movement, pranayama, and a deeper understanding of the breath behind the practice.
Space is limited so the Mysore room remains personal and the masterclass leaves room for movement exploration, individual application, and meaningful questions.
$85
Complete course registration
Date
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Mysore
8:00–10:00 AM
Break
10:00–10:30 AM
Masterclass
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Location
The Yoga Shala · Maitland
Registration includes both Mysore practice and the masterclass.
