Ashtanga yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of medieval hatha yoga. Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The style is energetic, synchronising breath with movements. The individual poses are linked by flowing movements called vinyasas.
Jois established his Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in 1948.
