Ashtanga Yoga Studio
Andrew Eppler
Teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga · Norman, Oklahoma
Andrew Eppler first traveled to Mysore, India, in 1990. He has returned many times since, studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Śrī B.N.S. Iyengar and learning from the Sanskrit scholars of that community. These relationships have shaped his practice and teaching over the years.
Andrew directs Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Norman, Oklahoma, the city's first dedicated yoga studio, open since 1999. His work is rooted in the Mysore yoga tradition, the spiritual culture to which Śrī Kṛṣṇamācārya belonged.
Among his teachers was Śrī U.Ve. Prof. M.A. Lakṣmīthāthāchārya Swami, with whom he studied the Bhagavad Gītā for three and a half years in Mysore. After his teacher passed away in 2021, Andrew wrote a tribute to his life and the tradition he carried. That tribute can be read at The Origins of Mysore Yoga. His other teachers include Danny Paradise, David Williams, David Swenson, Nancy Gilgoff, Kumar Palana and many others.
Andrew is the founder of the Mysore Yoga Conference and the director and producer of the documentary Mysore Yoga Traditions. He continues to work with teachers and Sanskrit scholars in Mysore, sharing their knowledge and traditions with students around the world through his online studies, retreats, and training programs.
Yoga is not the acquisition of anything new, but the uncovering of what has always been there inside of us.
The work
A bridge between Mysore and the practice room
Study in Mysore
Traveling many times to India to read and practice alongside the senior Sanskrit scholars of the Mysore community, learning the texts as they are taught within the tradition.
Ashtanga Yoga Studio
The first dedicated yoga studio in Norman, and the home of his teaching ever since.
The Mysore Yoga Conference
An annual gathering he founded that brings senior Indian scholars together with the international yoga community. About the conference
Mysore Yoga Traditions
He directed and produced the Mysore Yoga Traditions Film and built the Online Studies Program, with full courses on classical Sanskrit texts taught by senior pandits from within the tradition. Online Studies
His teaching honors the traditional sequences of Ashtanga Yoga while drawing on what forty years of practice, study, and conversation with teachers across many lineages have shown him. He treats philosophy and practice as a single, continuous study rather than two subjects that happen to share a room.
He is also a photographer and a passionate videographer. He has studied magic for more than thirty-five years, much of it in his twenties, when he wandered the world performing on the street and learning the craft in India and Europe. The Mysore Yoga Traditions documentary was the first of his films, and its sequel, Kings and Yogis, is underway. Much of what he has seen over the years, in Mysore and at home, he has kept on film, and the images on this page are part of that record, a tradition still being lived rather than remembered.
Photography
A record of the practice
Photographs by Andrew Eppler
Study with Andrew
If this is the kind of study you are after, there is a place for you in it.
The 200hr Ashtanga training runs in Norman and online, a serious grounding in the practice and the philosophy that holds it together. Each winter the study continues in India, where students read and practice alongside the scholars themselves in Mysore and Melkote, January 12 to February 8, 2027.
You are welcome to come and see for yourself.