Dragon Vinyasa

Dragon Vinyasa is a fully integrated exercise system that combines the ancient techniques of Ashtanga Yoga with Tai Chi and Kempo Mixed Martial Arts. This dynamic body/mind workout is designed to improve strength, balance, flexibility, coordination, breath control and focus as well as increase energy. Through the flowing synchronization of breath and movement you will release toxins and decrease stress from both the mind and body. Dragon Vinyasa is a fun way to build lean, strong and flexible muscles while at the same time learning basic self-defense.

The Rocket Tribute by Sattva Yoga

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Island Yoga - Jedi Sun Salutations

For more on Island Yoga

Rocket Yoga London

Featuring Jamie of the Yoga People

Rocket II - Yoga DVD

Larry's long awaited "Rocket Series" Yoga DVD is here. A great video for theIntermediate and Advanced Yoga Practicioner. Larry Schultz created the Rocket routine, a series of postures based on a modification of the traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga intermediate series, to renew energy and vitality in the body. Full of back bending and spinal twisting, this uplifting sequence of postures has gained global recognition as a feel-good experience which opens the body and clears the mind. The Rocket Yoga DVD breaks through areas of tension and energy blockage, combating tendencies towards stagnancy and resistance in the body. Frequent hand stands and arm balances keep the energy level high and encourage students to connect to their inner power and change their world view.

Words of Praise "I was very excited to try this type of yoga and was not disappointed, let me just say it is not for beginners, I am a yoga instructor and was looking for a challenge, but it is suitable of those with some yoga experience, it is truly inspirational. There are 3 things I particularly like about this DVD, Number 1 are the options, you can choose to do the full sequence or alternatively you can pick and choose shorter portions if you are tight on time. Number 2 is there are 2 individuals to follow, one who is super human and inspirational and the other who is slightly less strong and easier to mirror. Reason 3 it is narrated by Larry and not by someone who is actually trying to do the poses at the same time. I found his directions and explanations very easy to follow, at certain points he would go back over some of the more complex poses with step by step explanation which was very useful. Overall, buy it, use it and keep the Rocket alive!!!" - By Brid Kelly

"Great dvd! No frills or fancy production. Filmed in a yoga studio with Larry Schultz talking 2 students through the Rocket style vinyasa. The 2 students are a mix of a female and a normal size male (Not a typical stick figure yoga guy), which I really appreciated. The students were at different levels within their practice which was nice to see (Not everybody starts yoga being super flexible, which discourages most people new to yoga.. The flow was well paced and easy to follow. It is by no means a beginners dvd, but with dedicated practice you will grow with this dvd. Beautiful flow! No dvd like this.. I should know. I think I own every single yoga dvd out there =) You an see the Ashtanga influence behind the Rocket method. This dvd is a must have in any ones yoga dvd collection." by K. Villanueva

It's Yoga International

It’s Yoga International is a community of It’s Yogi’s that have come together since the passing of Larry Schultz, the founder of It’s Yoga in the purpose of keeping the Legacy and Love of It’s Yoga pure and authentic.  We have created a board of directors, various departments of our organization and a clear and open dialogue among our teachers.

Tip of the Rocket

Jedi Sun Salutation Level II

Jedi Sun Salutation Level I

Progressive Ashtanga Yoga

Rocket Yoga Digital Promo Video

It's Yoga, Utah Promo Video

Music To be Born By - Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead

Rocket Ship Song - Blast Off

Rocket Side Crow Lesson

For more on David Kyle and It's Yoga Puerto Rico visit:http://www.itsyogapuertorico.com/

It's Yoga Mixed Level Series

David Kyle, It's Yoga Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico - David Kyle modifies the traditional Ashtanga style in this online Vinyasa class to make it more accessible to beginning students, as well as exciting for more advanced practitioners.

Find an It’s Yoga near you

San Francisco was the birth place of It’s Yoga over 20 years ago.  Many graduates of our programs have gone on to manifest their own dream of starting an It’s Yoga community.  We are a growing worldwide family, and look forward to sharing the practice with you.  Find an It’s Yoga affiliate near you!

USA:
It’s Yoga in San Francisco
Asta Yoga

It’s Yoga Kids

It’s Yoga in Puerto Rico
It’s Yoga Puerto Rico

It’s Yoga in Utah
It’s Yoga Provo

It’s Yoga in Ohio
Cincinnati
Yoga Ah

Cincinnati
Yoga Garage

It’s Yoga in Nevada
Ashtanga Yoga Las Vegas

It’s Yoga in Wisconsin
Yoga Eight

Everywhere else:

It’s Yoga in Panama:
It’s Yoga Panama

It’s Yoga in Nicaragua:
It’s Yoga Nicaragua

It’s Yoga in Mexico:
Cancun
It’s Yoga Cancun

It’s Yoga in Asia:
Thailand
It’s Yoga Thailand

Vietnam
Michelle Lloyd

It’s Yoga in South Africa:
Capetown
It’s Yoga Capetown

It’s Yoga in Sweden:
Stockholm
It’s Yoga Stockholm

It’s Yoga in Italy:
Florence
It’s Yoga Firenze

It’s Yoga in the UK:
Leeds
Yoga Lab

Open an It’s Yoga studio in your neighborhood. It’s the perfect way to be sure you have a place to practice and friends to practice with.  Easy, lucrative and rewarding, It’s Yoga studios represent an oasis in their communities for conscious movement and lifestyles.  Be a part of the silent revolution and do your part so that “all beings are happy and free.”

Namaste.

Three Stages of the Yoga Game

3 stages of the yoga game

Opening Invocation of the Traditional Ashtanga Yoga Practice

David Kyle, It's Yoga Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico - David and his students demonstrate the traditional Ashtanga yoga practice opening invocation.

Opening Invocation Rocket Yoga Practice lead by Larry Schultz

Audio of Tribute Song to the Rocket Yoga Man Larry Schultz

Tribute Song to the Rocket Yoga Man Larry Schultz

Tribute Song to the Rocket Yoga Man Larry Schultz

Larry Schultz, the Yoga Man, teaching yoga around the World

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Larry Schultz - Rocket Man: Interview 2009

Interview with Larry Schultz in 2009 in a SOMA Garden in San Francisco.

Yoga Man Larry Schultz Quotes told by Kinect Adventure Statues

Quotes from the Yoga man told vitrually with the help of animated kinect characters. tribute by Island Yoga.

Larry Schultz, The Yoga Man - 1950-2011

Larry Schultz 1950-2011

Larry Schultz studied for 7 years with luminary Shri K Pattabhi Jois and established It’s Yoga in 1989.  He is known as one of the foremost Yoga enthusiasts, in the West.  As the third yoga studio in San Francisco, It’s Yoga served to raise the torch by creating a vibrant hub for the yoga movement in the Bay Area. Larry taught tens of thousands of classes at It’s Yoga SF, across the U.S. and abroad and shepherded more than 5,000 Ashtanga Vinyasa students through his life-affirming 200-hour It’s Yoga Teacher Training Course. 

Born of his time teaching yoga to the band, “The Grateful Dead”,  Larry developed his much beloved ”Rocket” routines which are a variation of the classical first, second and third series of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.  He was one of first to step out of the box by stretching the boundaries of the classical Ashtanga System with modifications of the advanced poses.  When looking for a name for the new routines, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, dubbed them the “Rocket” because, “it gets you there faster.”

 Over the years, yoga students of all kinds flocked to his studios. He facilitated the opening of over 15 It’s Yoga studios and affiliates that teach the “Rocket Routines” and the “It’s Yoga Teacher Training Program.”  Advanced students came to practice on their own, while new students that included Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, artists, students, and entertainers came to explore this mysterious practice.  It’s Yoga San Francisco served the community for 20 years.

In an open letter on the It’s Yoga website, Larry shared his vision for teaching:

There is nothing more satisfying to me as a teacher than to watch the glow with which people arise from Savasana. Often people walk into It’s Yoga with worry, stress and tiredness written all over their faces but when they leave, they show the effects of Ashtanga Yoga: they feel better and look better, lighter, freer, more relaxed and energized. This is why to me, teaching Ashtanga Yoga is a kind of self-realization; every time I lead class I, as a teacher, grow and express the insights of my own yoga. I see people take in the practice from various different angles and develop, change and transcend their limitations, realize their possibilities.

“Larry was a warm and generous person,” remembers Yoga Journal Senior Associate Editor Jennifer Rodrigue, who took his teacher training. “One of his greatest contributions to the yoga community was giving people the courage to own their personal practice, encouraging people to honor the past and to live in the present.”

David Kyle of It’s Yoga Puerto Rico, remembers his teacher: “His passing has taken many by surprise,” he says. “His life has influenced thousands to search within themselves for their inner teacher. He is an inspiration to us all.”

Combining his signature mix of humor and discipline, generosity and firmness–and above all, kindness–Larry delighted in introducing his students to the practice, traveling around the globe, and spreading his gospel of yoga’s healing and restorative powers.

  San Francisco based Stephanie Snyder, who also completed his training says, “He was an entryway for anyone to come into yoga. He made it accessible to all.” Snyder says that Schultz referred to yoga as a party, to which all were invited. “He was an institution.”

Larry’s wife Marie Hajjar Schultz, states that   ”Larry is a timeless teacher whose love of the practice transcended everything he did.  His dedication to a daily practice reminds us all to share what we love by practicing what we teach, and teaching what we practice.  I am honored to pay it forward.” She, with the global It’s Yoga family, are committed to sharing his legacy by continuing to spread the It’s Yoga vision. May His memory be eternal.

 A celebration in Larry’s honor is being planned for April 3, 2011 in San Francisco. Details will be forthcoming.

Namaste

Rene says a few words to honor Larry Schultz teachings

Rocket II Demo

Moves by Yogi David Kyle and voice-over by Larry Schultz.

Larry Schultz showing how to teach rocket yoga move to students

Ashtanga Yoga As Taught By Shri K. Pattabhi Jois by Larry Schultz

The basics of ashtanga yoga cannot be learned enough. Because yoga practice is progressive it is important to go through this manual, Ashtanga Yoga As Taught By Shri K Pattabhi Jois, in the order it is presented. However, if you are having difficulty with any of the postures go back to the beginning. Keep in mind that the true source of understanding is in the basic principals underlying the asanas. Take your time and learn the fundamentals of the practice. Go slowly. Never force or push yourself into a posture, be patient, and all will come in time.What’s the rush?

 

Articles about It's Yoga and the bad man of Ashtanga, Larry Schultz

Articles:

Larry Schultz, the Bad Man of Ashtanga Yoga

It's Yoga! - Larry Schultz and the Rocket Practice

Special Interview with Larry Schultz 

On Meeting Larry Schultz

Thanks, Larry

 

Larry Schultz, the original bad man of Ashtanga, does Yoga

Slideshow of Larry Schultz, the founder of It's Yoga and inventor the Rocket Vinyasa flow, doing yoga at It's Yoga at 848 Folsom in San Francisco.

Larry Schultz Rocket Training at Astayoga

Flickr Photo album of creator of the Rocket, Larry Schultz, helping students understand the workings of the Rocket Yoga practice during a rocket training at AstaYoga.

Rockets - The Bad Yogi's of Ashtanga

K. Pattabhi Jois once called Larry Schultz the original bad man of Ashtanga. His group of highly trained It's Yoga Ashtanga Rocket Yogi's are the bad yogi's of Ashtanga.Do a handstand and join the club.

 

It's Yoga Articles

• Introduction
  On Meeting K. Pattabhi Jois: Larry's Story
  Coming Back from Injury Through Ashtanga
  The Alchemy of Transformation
  Larry's Statement of Teaching Philosophy 
  
  

  

NauliLand - Sitting down with Larry Schultz

NauliLand - Sitting down with Larry for a talk in Sonoma

Larry Schultz talks about BC and AD of Rocket Yoga

Larry Teaching the Rocket 3 at AstaYoga, part 2

Larry Teaching the Rocket 3 at AstaYoga

Larry Schultz Teaching at AstaYoga

It's Yoga, San Francisco. Classic class footage.

Touchdown Todd Taylor teaches at the 848 Folsom st. studio

The Last Day at 848 folsom st. for It's Yoga

It's Yoga closed it's studio at 848 Folsom st. as the world economy tumbled from the sky, but the spirit lives on in countless studios around the world, including AstaYoga, It's Yoga Puerto Rico, Yoga Eight, and It's Yoga Stockholm.

It's Yoga All-Star Practitioner - Chris Rossbach

It's Yoga Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training: Introduction Video

For over 12 years, the It's Yoga program has been certifying lovers of yoga around the world.  The It's Yoga training supports students in deepening their understanding and relationship to the practice by studying the basic ingredients: breath, bandhas and dristi. With revolutionary methods to make the practice accessible and appropriate, our approach is modern, therapeutic, challenging, supportive and steeped in tradition.

It's Yoga support each student as they develop, deepen, appreciate and expand their understanding of their true authentic self. Through basic study of philosophy, personal alignment, modifications of classical poses, pranayama practices, and individual instruction, this intimate training is sure to be a life enhancing experience.

It's Yoga Rocket Vinyasa Yoga

What is the Rocket?

 Rocket I 

 
Every rocket sequence is made up of 4 parts. Starting with traditional ashtanga suryanamskaras, the sequence moves onto a original standing sequence, full of standard standing poses as well as arm balances to build strength and protect joints. On the floor, yogis will recognize the sequence as being a modification of the seated primary series. The series finishes off with the tradional ashtanga finishing series.

 Rocket II

Building on the same standing series as Rocket I, Rocket II diverges when it comes to the seated series. Based on the back bending sequence of the seated intermediate series of ashtanga, this sequence complements the forward folds of Rocket I, laying the foundations of building a strong practice.

Rocket III

Designed as a way to finish off the week, this sequence is a combination of both Rocket I and Rocket II. Combining the twisted and folds into a dynamic sequence designed to build strenght and flexibility.

It's Yoga - San Francisco

It’s Yoga started as a dream almost 30 years ago and has now developed into a global community of like-minded individuals with a deep appreciation for the Ashtanga Vinyasa practice.

 The It’s Yoga System brings the ancient practice of Ashtanga to the modern student of Yoga.

With great respect for the benefits of the practice, It's Yoga have expanded routines, trainings, retreats, workshops and continuing education programs all designed to invite inquisitors to share in the gifts of this life enhancing practice.