Ashtanga Yoga is a relatively new branch of Hatha Yoga which is thought to have been structured and codified somewhere around the 11th century. However, it is Ashtanga Yoga from which all modern forms of Western Yoga are born. Power, vinyasa, jivamukti, forrest Yoga, etc. These are all contemporary derivatives of Ashtanga. If you feel it at all important to get closer to source, may I suggest you take a taste of this practice, or better yet, plunge right in. 

I began interfacing with yoga in about 2015, and finally found Ashtanga around 2020. Since then, I have traveled to Mysore, Karnataka India three times and have otherwise worked with the best of the best in the field, including but not limited to Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor and David Garrigues. Sharing this practice is my full time, life's work. Although I have found much value from working with the aforementioned, I have traveled the world in search of other modest Ashtanga Shalas to study with those like me: passionate practitioners and teachers who carry a potent devotion for sharing it with their small communities. I earned both 200 and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training certificates, the latter from Kathy McNames still based here in the Burlington area. It's my honor and privilege to be a humble guide and servant to students in search of something deeper. If you are a total beginner, there is no better place to get started.