Why study Ashtanga with a "guru?"

05-06-2004, 04:04 PM

hi ... i'm new to yoga ( < 1 year) and started doing Ashtanga for a
couple weeks but found myself wondering about the need/reason for
doing Ashtanga in a class with a guru.

There were 40 people in the class and I would get one or two
adjustments ... but that was it ... it hardly seemed worth the cost
of the class and the inconvience of traveling to it.

Yet every Ashtanga DVD/Book I bought makes special effort to state
that Ashtanga should be learned from a qualified teacher.

Why???? The series are prescribed.

Thanks

Folks @ Yoga UCLA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YogaUCLA/