“Intuition is the information we need, to get where we are going”.
Carmen Yague
Carmen is an authorized Ashtanga yoga teacher with 14 years of experience in practicing and teaching the method.
Her focus is on empowering students to tap into their intuition and help them trust themselves more, for a fuller, richer experience of their Ashtanga Yoga practice and their lives.
Carmen founded and ran Ashtanga School Madrid, a traditional yoga school in her hometown of Madrid, for seven years, and since 2020, she teaches an online, weekly Ashtanga Mysore group with students from around Europe. Carmen organises Ashtanga workshops and intensives in Spain, Europe and the UK, and is the founder of Ashtanga Woman, a new vision carefully tailored for the Ashtanga Yoga woman, to provide a richer, fuller experience of their practice.
In 2020, a few teachers joined a Zoom session on the occasion of Sharath’s birthday. Amid a COVID outbreak, many of us were working incredibly hard to keep our communities together, our shala doors open. Someone asked Sharath how to handle students who go through rough patches in practice: times of doubt, crisis, injury, and all the kleshas (obstacles)…
My grandmother passed at the age of 102. She was a hard-working, resilient woman with one of the most pragmatic minds I’ve known. The youngest of nine siblings, she helped her mother care for the house, her father and her brothers in patriarchal, rural Spain in the early 1900’s. My grandmother was the glue of…
‘What stretches in Marychasana A?’ , one of the students in the Mysore group in Frankfurt asked me today. After thinking, actually, what stretches the most in yoga postures is the mind. During my early years of practice, I had the fortune to work with a teacher with great technical insight. I learned solid, technical…
Carmen Yague Ashtanga 