Welcome to our Mysore web page.

Many of our Shala Staff and students make the journey to India to study with our beloved Guruji, and this page will serve as both a picture gallery and information site. We will be posting updates from Mysore visits in the future, in the meantime please click on our link to the AYRI website.

The Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute
www.ayri.org

The official organizational site of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his school in Mysore, India.

Site contains registration details, news from Mysore, travel tips, some amazing photos of a young Guruji practicing Ashtanga yoga......and more.
Check it out!

Mysore Charity Donations

The Yoga Shala is pleased to support the city of Mysore, the birthplace of our yoga practice. Funds from our community class are currently going to:

American Society for International Shanti (ASIS) is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco..The organization is based in both the US (primarily for fundraising) and in Mysore (where their projects are). They just completed acquisition of an 8-acre parcel of land right in the back of Chamundi Hill. On that land, they plan to build a Children’s Home for destitute children, a small medical clinic as a base for a doctor to visit remote villages in the area to provide free medical services, and next year (funds provided) a Home for the Aged.

They have also currently started a feeding program, and on Mondays they feed 100 lepers and their families at a nearby leper colony along with 15-20 street children and their moms (it seems the mothers are homeless and the fathers are nowhere to be seen) in the city.

More info on the projects and this wonderful organization here.

While in India in 2004, Melody made the acquiantance of a lovely woman named Tina Sasson (right). Tina serves healthy breakfasts and teaches cooking classes to Guruji's yoga students.

Chatting with Tina on several occasions, Tina shared her passion and enthusiasm for her people and her country, and her willingness and desire to help better the lives of as many as she could through her time and what ever resources she could spare. Visiting with children at the orphanage, the seniors home, buying a school uniform for a poor girl who wished to attend school, helping out a man selling postcards on the street to support his 5 daughters......
These were just small ways she could make a big difference.

Through our donations (from our community class) which we send directly to Tina, relief is distributed in many different directions. We are so happy to have a way to give some support to a city very dear to our hearts, and DIRECTLY to those who are in need.