Books by Gregor Maehle
Director of 8 Limbs Ashtanga Yoga in Perth, Australia
Gregor started his Yogic practices 30 years ago. In the mid-80’s he commenced yearly travels to India where he studied with various yogic and tantric masters and traditional Indian sadhus and ascetics. Amongst others he studied 14 months with K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India, and in 1997 was authorized by him to teach. Since then he has branched out into research of the anatomical alignment of postures and the higher limbs of Yoga. He obtained his anatomical knowledge through a German Health Practitioner degree and has also studied History, Philosophy and Comparative Religion at German universities.
In India Gregor also received eight months of mostly one-on-one instruction in scripture and the higher limbs of Yoga through BNS Iyengar, like K.P. Jois a student of T. Krishnamacharya. Additionally he studied Sanskrit under Professor Narayanachar and Dr. Chandrasekhar. Gregor lived several years as a recluse, spending his days studying Sanskrit, yogic scripture and practising yogic techniques. Together with his wife he founded 8 Limbs in Perth in 1996. Today, along with maintaining a daily practice of the Primary, Intermediate and Advanced series of Ashtanga Yoga postures, Gregor’s main research focus is Pranayama, Kundalini and Meditation.
Gregor published Ashtanga Yoga Practice and Philosophy in 2006 and Ashtanga Yoga The Intermediate Series in 2009, which have been translated into several foreign languages. In 2012 he published Pranayama The Breath of Yoga and in 2013 Yoga Meditation: Through Mantra, Chakras and Kundalini to Spiritual Freedom.
