What 9 Trips to Mysore Teach You About Devotion, Discipline & Real Life | with Tina Bock (Video)

What if the most devoted yoga practice isn't happening at 5am in a Mysore shala — but in stolen afternoon hours between school pickups, on the floor of a LifeTime gym, to whatever music felt right that morning?

Harmony and Russell sit down with Tina Bock — Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga yoga teacher, mother of two, eight-year Abu Dhabi expat, and lifelong New Jersey girl — for exactly the kind of conversation Ashtangis have been having since the first Western students sat outside the shala gates with instant coffee and nowhere else to be.

Warm, funny, philosophical, and completely real.Tina received her Level 2 authorization from the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India under the late R. Sharath Jois. She has been teaching since 2012, has taught workshops and teacher trainings in more than 14 countries, made nine trips to India for ongoing study, and is currently practicing what she calls the "Seventh" and final series: parenting.

Her path was not a straight line. From a 200-hour training in Goa at 22 (chosen because it was a thousand dollars for the whole month), to years of private lessons in Abu Dhabi palaces, to nine Mysore pilgrimages, to learning Third Series after her first baby was born — this is a portrait of what it looks like when practice truly lives inside a life, rather than sitting apart from it.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• How Tina ended up in Abu Dhabi for eight years — and what that did for her self-practice• Teaching private yoga to Abu Dhabi royalty when there was no Mysore program nearby
• Learning Primary Series alone and what self-practice taught her that a shala could not• Going to Mysore for the first time having never done a proper Mysore-style class
• Nine India trips — including a motorbike accident, a ditch, and stitches she suspects are still in her knee
• Bringing her son to Mysore at three months old and twelve months old (he learned to walk there)
• Learning Third Series after becoming a mother — and what Sharath said about timing
• The "Seventh Series": how parenting is the deepest practice she has ever done
• Teaching "Ashtanga Light" at a gym — and why she does not apologize for it
• Ashtanga as punk rock: what gets lost when the shalas close and gentrification arrives

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