Ashtanga Yoga

In Sanskrit, Ashtanga is translated as "Eight Limb path." In Mysore, India, people gather to practice this form of yoga together at their own pace—if you see Mysore-led ashtanga, it's expected of you to know the series. Vinyasa yoga stems from ashtanga as the flowing style linking breath to movement.

It is a wider system consisting of various other groupings of asanas that work to bring about external and internal cleansing in a person’s body.