Mornings run 9:00 to 11:30 and are physical. Afternoons run 16:00 to 18:00 and go inward. The hours in between belong to you.

You do not need an established practice to come. If you have never done a sun salutation, you will be taught one from the beginning. If you have been at this twenty years, there is more than enough here.

Ashtanga means eight limbs. Asana, the postures, is the third of them. The afternoon sessions take up what comes after.

Pranayama is breath practice, and the system taught here is the one Andrew learned from Dr. B.N.S. Iyengar in Mysore. Mudra is a seal, a way of holding the body that changes what the breath does. Ishvara Yoga [VERIFY: one plain line on what this is, in your words]. The philosophy is the old Indian material put in terms a person alive now can use, and there is chanting and sitting practice alongside it.

None of it requires an advanced practice. Most of it requires sitting still, which is harder than it sounds.

The shala, the room where practice happens, is open on the sides and covered overhead, so you work in the actual air with the sea below and the Tertsa valley behind. Sixteen mats fit on the floor. That number is not a scarcity tactic, it is the size of the floor.

Nathalie and Andreas designed and built it themselves. Andreas had thirty years in construction and landscaping behind him before he started. It runs from April through October, and this week sits near the end of that season, once the worst of the summer heat has gone.

Arrival is Sunday the 27th. We finish Saturday the 3rd. [VERIFY: arrival and departure hours, and how many teaching days]

The food is locally sourced and cooked on site.

Andrew has been practicing Ashtanga since [VERIFY: year]. He studied in Mysore with Dr. B.N.S. Iyengar, who learned the practice directly from Sri T. Krishnamacharya, and the pranayama and mudra work in the afternoon sessions comes out of that room.

He teaches at Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Norman, Oklahoma.