Who Says Yoga Has To Be Boring?

Forget Everything You Think You Know About Yoga - Prasara Is A Dynamic Method Of Practice That Will Help You Move Better And Feel Better While Learning Fun And Interesting Ways To Move Your Body.

OK, let’s be hon­est here — you’ve heard of yoga before, so it’s not as if you’re com­ing to this page expect­ing to have your mind blown. You’ve prob­a­bly seen some pic­tures of dudes in pur­ple leo­tards and noticed those $12 DVDs at Wal-Mart. You’re not read­ing this page with­out some pre-existing idea of what yoga is.

Please don't judge us based on what you've seen in the past.

Prasara Is Different. Really.

It’s a well-established fact that prac­tic­ing Yoga will help you increase flex­i­bil­ity and learn to relax, and var­i­ous stud­ies have shown it to cor­re­late to just about any marker of good health you can think of. You know all this already, so we’re not going to go on about why you should prac­tice yoga. How­ever, we do want to tell you about what makes Prasara unique and what it can do for you.

The short story is that Prasara was cre­ated to develop Flow. We’ll talk more about this later, but the gist is that Flow is a qual­ity of move­ment in which you can tran­si­tion smoothly form one thing to another.

Flow is also a men­tal state some­times referred to by ath­letes as “being in the zone.”

Actu­ally, Flow is a lot of things, and that can make it dif­fi­cult to describe — and even harder to learn. But it isn’t impos­si­ble, and we’ve been teach­ing it for years to our pri­vate clients, in live sem­i­nars and work­shops, and though this course, the Prasara Primer.

The unique ele­ment of Prasara prac­tice as opposed to most other styles of yoga is sim­ply that tra­di­tional yoga is fix­ated on sit­ting in poses while Prasara shifts the empha­sis to the tran­si­tions between poses. You’ll still use the same pos­tures and posi­tions, but we’ll also work on your abil­ity to “flow” from one to the next so you can develop real agility, grace, power, and yes, Flow in every­thing you do.

Within your first month using the Prasara Primer, you’ll:

  • Restore your self-confidence as you mas­ter increas­ingly chal­leng­ing movements.
  • Chal­lenge your ner­vous sys­tem for increased move­ment effi­ciency.
  • Boost power and mobil­ity simultaneously.
  • Play bet­ter at any sport with increased bal­ance and spa­tial awareness.
  • Neu­tral­ize pain from tight mus­cles and stiff joints.
  • Min­i­mize sidelin­ing injuries and cor­rect the imbal­ances that cause them.
  • Develop true func­tional mus­cle with­out excess bulk.
  • Tap into the unlim­ited cre­ativ­ity and spon­tane­ity inside you.
  • Prac­tice any­time, any­where – with no equip­ment and min­i­mal space.

After you’ve used Prasara for two months, you’ll won­der at how much bet­ter you feel in your body and your over­all phys­i­cal prowess and agility. Guaranteed.

I have prac­ticed yoga for the last 18 years and seen a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent teach­ing styles. Some styles of yoga exist in an almost mys­ti­cal shroud: exclu­sive cliques prac­tic­ing a dif­fi­cult series of move­ments. Other styles pre­scribe a rigid, unchange­able series of pos­tures. The won­der­ful thing about Prasara yoga is the intu­itive, open man­ner in which it can be practiced.

The Prasara Primer is an excel­lent start­ing point. The mate­r­ial is phe­nom­e­nally user-friendly, and the clear, open tone of the Primer will enable any­body at any fit­ness level to get started imme­di­ately on a life­long Prasara practice.

JB — Nashville, TN

Is Prasara Really The Best Style Of Yoga?

There’s no such thing as a “best” way to move your body. There are wrong ways — inju­ri­ous ways, like those awful stretches your high school gym coach used to make you do — but the beauty of yoga is that most of the poses are very dif­fi­cult to do in a way that could cause you to hurt yourself.

While many styles of yoga insist on fol­low­ing a set sequence of how­ever many poses for how­ever many min­utes, the ulti­mate goal of prac­tic­ing Prasara is to teach you to flow with­out think­ing of what comes next.

Yes, in the begin­ning, you’ll be prac­tic­ing rou­tines (this course includes six of them — more about those later), but through prac­tic­ing the rou­tines, you’ll actu­ally be giv­ing your body the vocab­u­lary of move­ment you need in order to impro­vise your own movements.

That last bit is the real magic of Prasara and what makes it such a nat­ural fit for athletes.

The Prasara Yoga / Martial Arts Connection

It’s no secret that fight­ers are some of the most ver­sa­tile and adapt­able ath­letes around. You kind of have to be if you’re job requires you to per­form while simul­ta­ne­ously try­ing to avoid get­ting socked in the face.

But what a lot of peo­ple don’t know is that mar­tial arts and yoga have an awful lot in common.

We’re mar­tial artists. Between the three of us, we’ve trained in a dozen dif­fer­ent styles and com­peted on four con­ti­nents. We wouldn’t waste our time train­ing any­thing that didn’t allow us to deliver pow­er­ful strikes and kicks with speed and precision.

In the ring, noth­ing is pre­dictable. It looks like chaos out there, but the fight­ers have to adapt with agility and grace (the best fight­ers are always grace­ful). It might sur­prise you to learn that the key to devel­op­ing speed, power, and pre­ci­sion under pres­sure comes from prac­tic­ing pre-determined rou­tines over and over.

In tra­di­tional mar­tial arts, they’re called kata, but many mod­ern arts also make heavy use of “flow drills” in which part­ners rehearse pre­set attack and defense pat­terns to mas­ter var­i­ous skills. As they get bet­ter and more effi­cient, the drill is altered to become just a lit­tle more difficult.

With enough prac­tice, advanced moves hap­pen with­out any thought — like sec­ond nature — and that’s how fight­ers pre­pare every tech­nique they plan to use in a match.

We do the same thing with Prasara.

In the begin­ning, we’ll show you a short sequence of move­ments. After some prac­tice, we’ll add more. Even­tu­ally, it will start to get eas­ier, and you’ll notice that your body sails through the tran­si­tions more effi­ciently, with no wasted movements.

That’s when we level up. Change the drill.

Each of the five core Primer flow rou­tines have three lev­els of dif­fi­culty so you can step up grad­u­ally from the most basic vari­a­tions of each move­ment to advanced forms that you wouldn’t have even attempted in the beginning.

Since you’ll always be able to choose the appro­pri­ate level of prac­tice for any flow, you’ll never have to worry about a move­ment being too hard or advanced for you. Just prac­tice the level that fits, and over time, you’ll find that you can move on to the higher lev­els of each movement.

Going with the Flow - On the Field and Off

Though it’s per­fect for mar­tial artists, you don’t have to be a fighter to ben­e­fit from prac­tic­ing Prasara. Prasara is pos­si­bly the most ath­letic style of yoga out there because of its dynamic move­ments and focus on Flow.

If you’re an ath­lete in any sport, you already know what Flow is. Your focus tight­ens, and the out­side world fades away. You breathe deeper. Time slows down. You get tun­nel vision, and the path between you and your goal opens up. You don’t have to think about what to do — you just act, spon­ta­neously, in the moment.

Even if you’re not an ath­lete, you’ve prob­a­bly expe­ri­enced flow while dri­ving on the high­way, play­ing a musi­cal instru­ment, or doing some­thing else that requires a relaxed concentration.

Flow feels good, and when you’re in it, you don’t want it to end.

Even if you’re not the “sporty” type, you know that one of the least use­ful things an ath­lete can do is to stand per­fectly still dur­ing a match. In fact, that might just be the fastest way to lose in most sports.

No, ath­letes have to move. So it’s impor­tant that a yoga style designed to develop ath­letic move­ment not spend too much time sit­ting still.

Prasara Is Like Injury Insurance For Athletes

You’ve prob­a­bly seen videos of ath­letes get­ting injured. These videos are painful to watch — not only because we can see an injury occur­ring, but because we can see it com­ing before they do.

When ath­letes get sur­prised, they get hurt.

The ball trav­els in an unex­pected direc­tion. Another player attacks from an unex­pected angle. They step on a slip­pery patch. They get faked out.

Things hap­pen that we can’t pre­dict or control.

Prasara yoga is like injury insur­ance for ath­letes because it trains you to always be ready to adapt to changes. If you can’t move the way you had planned, you sim­ply tran­si­tion to a dif­fer­ent posi­tion. Flow to the next move­ment and keep going. Side­step the other player. Jump to make the catch. Learn­ing to adapt can help you stay in the moment — in Flow — so you don’t get caught off-guard.

And it’s the same thing off the court too.

Be More Confident With Everyday Movements

And don’t think this just applies to ath­letes — we all use our bod­ies for a vari­ety of tasks every day, and it’s not uncom­mon to hear about peo­ple twist­ing an ankle step­ping off a curb or pulling a back mus­cle while bend­ing over to tie a show or pick up a dropped wallet.

What would it be like to know that your body was pre­pared to adapt to any­thing that comes up?

Flow isn’t just for sports — it means more con­fi­dence in every step. More power and assur­ance when you open a door and enter a room. More agility to nav­i­gate the unex­pected chal­lenges life throws at you every sin­gle day. And all of this trans­lates to more effec­tive and effi­cient move­ments that leave you with less stress, more energy, and a greater feel­ing of mas­tery in your environment.

Yoga For Your Lifestyle

And that’s the most impor­tant thing, after all: apply­ing Prasara to YOUR life.

Whether you want to improve your ath­letic per­for­mance or just enjoy play­ing with your kids (or grand­kids), Prasara prac­tice will teach you to move with more con­trol and ease. You’ll find greater mobil­ity and con­fi­dence in every­thing you do with your body. And you’ll have fun.

Of course, if you can’t make Prasara prac­tice fit your lifestyle, it won’t help you.

You won’t have to devote a cer­tain amount of time every day to prac­tice. Though you’ll see faster results with more work, just a few min­utes at a time is enough to get started, and you can lit­er­ally do this any­where, with no equip­ment or spe­cial clothing.

Dear Ryan,

I am drop­ping you a quick line about how pleased I have been with your Prasara Primer. I have used other yoga pro­grams in the past, but frankly I have found them to often be unwork­able for me. I picked up yoga to com­pen­sate for the stress my body under­goes when prac­tic­ing mar­tial arts. The prob­lem is that most pro­grams become very time con­sum­ing until they actu­ally take time away from my pri­mary focus. The rou­tines in the Prasara Primer are very effi­cient, focused and brief. The flex­i­bil­ity of the pro­gram has made it some­thing I can actu­ally use long-term.

Carl

Five Six Prasara Primer Flows For Full Body Training At Any Level

The Prasara Primer includes six unique Prasara Yoga flows, each designed to tar­get a spe­cific aspect of ath­letic move­ment. By prac­tic­ing them together in the sequence out­lined, you’ll be build­ing your body sys­tem­at­i­cally to improve every facet of your abil­i­ties. You’ll also have a lot of fun dis­cov­er­ing new ways to move your body – the kind of fun you haven’t had since you were a kid.

Five Prasara Yoga Flows for Specific Movement Abilities

  • Cricket –The Cricket flow is ideal for devel­op­ing hip mobil­ity. In addi­tion to greater flex­i­bil­ity, you’ll notice improve­ments in all activ­i­ties that require squat­ting and bend­ing at the knees – every­thing from surf­ing to pick­ing up your kids.
  • Vine – Like a vine, you’ll root deeply into the ground to increase bal­ance and single-leg sta­bil­ity. Vine is per­fect for kick­ers in mar­tial arts or ball sports as well as run­ners or any­one who spends a lot of time on one leg.
  • Wind – The Wind flow will improve your abil­ity to breathe while twist­ing and turn­ing your body. Use­ful for sports like surf­ing and snow­board­ing, but also ten­nis, base­ball, and golf. It’s vir­tu­ally impos­si­ble to per­form this flow with­out expe­ri­enc­ing some degree of flow in your breathing.
  • Ocean – Grap­plers will espe­cially appre­ci­ate the Ocean flow’s empha­sis on seam­less tran­si­tions on the ground. Ocean is also a lot of fun for those of us who enjoy rolling around on the floor.
  • See­Saw – See­Saw is all about the core – front and back and all around. This flow proves that yoga is any­thing but pas­sive, as con­sis­tent prac­tice will yield stronger arms and trunk through press­ing move­ments and bal­ance holds.

As of ver­sion 2.1, we’ve added a brand new flow sequence to the mix:

  • Root — Cre­ated espe­cially for begin­ners or peo­ple who are return­ing to train­ing after an injury or time off. Root lays the foun­da­tion for pro­duc­tive Prasara prac­tice with pos­tures any­one can do, build­ing the bal­ance and mobil­ity you’ll need to mas­ter the five orig­i­nal flows in the most direct and effi­cient way possible.

Each of the five orig­i­nal flows has three lev­els of dif­fi­culty and sophistication.

Begin with Root Flow to pre­pare your body and get used to how Prasara works (it’s a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from other yoga styles you’ve seen), then move on when you’re ready. As you cycle through the five movement-focused flows at each level, you’ll sys­tem­at­i­cally build your entire body – increas­ing strength, mobil­ity, and smooth, effort­less Flow.

The Prasara Primer Course Components

The orig­i­nal Prasara Primer was released back in 2006, and over the years, we’ve had the plea­sure of teach­ing hun­dreds and hun­dreds of stu­dents tak­ing that expe­ri­ence back and updat­ing the Primer. We’re now on Ver­sion 2.1, which includes some major improve­ments not only in terms of con­tent, but also in the way we present the mate­ri­als to make is as easy as pos­si­ble to prac­tice Prasara.

Each com­po­nent of our Deluxe Edi­tion pack­age listed below forms an inte­gral part of the total Prasara cur­ricu­lum. By uti­liz­ing each of these resources, you’ll cut the learn­ing curve and start expe­ri­enc­ing bet­ter move­ment and greater flow even sooner.

Here's what's included:

The Prasara Primer has been proven time and time again to help peo­ple of all fit­ness lev­els and back­grounds feel and move bet­ter. When you order the Deluxe Edi­tion of the Prasara Primer, you’ll get imme­di­ate access to the following:

Prasara Primer Pro­gram Manual

This “mas­ter text” shows you how unlock your Flow and blast your old lim­its while pro­vid­ing all the nec­es­sary back­ground on Prasara yoga’s the­ory along with tips for get­ting the most our of your practice.

Every­thing is explained in sim­ple, clear lan­guage, and we’ve included loads of advice on effec­tive train­ing and a sec­tion on yogic breath­ing exer­cises your can per­form any­where. This is truly the most user-friendly yoga text we’ve ever seen, because we specif­i­cally designed it to be. We’ve read all the clas­sics and fil­tered out all the mys­ti­cism and vague lan­guage to leave noth­ing but action­able advice you can make use of NOW.

Loads of Video Instruction

Our tuto­r­ial com­po­nent includes 67 Videos that leave no stone unturned in learn­ing to per­form all of the nec­es­sary move­ments. You’ll get:

  • 19 Demon­stra­tion Videos show­cas­ing the liq­uid power and artis­tic grace you’ll develop with Prasara prac­tice. You’ll never be left guess­ing when you can sim­ply watch and fol­low along with Coach Hurst.
  • 48 Detailed Break­down Videos walk you through each move­ment with clear, easy-to-understand instruc­tions. We’ve added slow motion sequenc­ing and voice overs so you can learn the flows in man­age­able chunks. It’s like hav­ing a Yoga teacher in the room with you, but with less spandex.

The best thing about these videos is that you can load them onto your smart­phone or other mobile device and take them to the park or in another room and prac­tice wher­ever you like. No more hav­ing to clear out a space in front of the TV or com­puter — it’s like hav­ing yoga to-go.

Train­ing Imple­men­ta­tion Guide

Most yoga pro­grams show you a rou­tine and then leave you to fig­ure every­thing out for your­self, but the Prasara Primer doesn’t leave you hanging.

Our Train­ing Imple­men­ta­tion Guide includes 5 com­plete pro­grams for inte­grat­ing Prasara into your cur­rent rou­tine. Where those cheap DVDs give you zero guid­ance on how to get the results they promise, the Primer includes a detailed guide for using yoga to achieve a vari­ety of goals (mus­cle build­ing, fat loss, endurance, etc.) – on your own schedule.

This is our secret weapon for mak­ing Prasara a con­ve­nient part of your lifestyle — which is the ONLY way to ensure results.

Spe­cific Break­down Guides for Each Routine

Each of the six Primer flow rou­tines uses dif­fer­ent move­ments to train dif­fer­ent skills and mus­cle groups.

Your down­load includes 6 Flow Break­down Man­u­als that include full writ­ten instruc­tions for the flows and day-by-day instruc­tions for learn­ing each flow. We’ve also added pic­tures and detailed notes on each pos­ture and move­ment in each flow.

This is an invalu­able resource for inter­pret­ing the fine details that are so dif­fi­cult to catch when try­ing to learn from watch­ing videos, and that’s why we’ve gone to the trou­ble to cre­ate these guides to accel­er­ate your progress.

Listen-Along Audio Guides

You may not always have access to a video player, but what hap­pens if you want to prac­tice and still haven’t mem­o­rized the entire sequence?

Easy — just let us talk you through it.

We’ve included 15 .mp3 Follow-Along Tracks so you can lis­ten on your iPod and take your prac­tice on the road.

A lifetime of yoga instruction all for less than the price of a month’s worth of classes.

But that’s not all. The Prasara Primer isn’t just a one-time thing you’re going to down­load and then let “col­lect dust” on your hard drive. Here’s how we take care of you after the sale:

Our Total Sup­port Commitment

We don’t believe in just hand­ing you some­thing and send­ing you on your way. Prasara, like any­thing, works best when it’s prac­ticed con­sis­tently over time. We want you to suc­ceed, so work hard to ensure you have every­thing you need to get the most our of your Prasara prac­tice. The Prasara Primer also include the following:

Free Updates for Life

We first released the Primer in 2006. Not sur­pris­ingly, we’ve learned a few things since then, and it’s impor­tant to us that we con­tin­u­ally give you the very best we have to offer. That’s why we’ll never charge you to get access the lat­est release ver­sion of the Primer.

In fact, when we released ver­sion 2.0 (which was a HUGE update over the orig­i­nal ver­sion), we gave away hun­dreds of copies to peo­ple who had bought the pre­vi­ous two ver­sions. We’re not jok­ing around when we say that we believe in tak­ing care of our peo­ple. When you get the Primer, we’ve got your back.

Gold Medal Help Desk

Our “famous” Gold Medal Bod­ies client sup­port. At least it should be famous. Just ask any­one who’s trained with GMB courses before, and they’ll tell you that we go out of our way to sup­port your prac­tice with ridicu­lously fast turn-around time for emails.

Once again, we’ve got your back.

Click below to order the Deluxe Edi­tion now and get instant access to every­thing listed above.

After check out, you’ll be directed to reg­is­ter to our Pri­vate Mem­bers’ Area, where you’ll have con­tin­ued access to your down­load files. The Course Man­ual, Flow Man­u­als, and Train­ing Guide are deliv­ered as Adobe PDF ebooks, view­able on all mod­ern com­puter plat­forms. The videos are opti­mized for iTunes, but can also be played on other media play­ers. The Audio tracks are MP3 record­ings that can be played on most com­put­ers, iPods, and sim­i­lar devices.

If I could kiss you I would!!!

Thank you so much guys, You’ve been so help­ful, and the yoga has really worked. Not just with the back pain but with my move­ment as a whole. If this is the result from just doing the begin­ner stage of Cricket, I can’t wait to see what hap­pens when I learn the rest and do the other flows!

Thank you so much!

Alex

The Sim­plest Guar­an­tee Ever

We want you to expe­ri­ence the joy of mov­ing your body with effort­less free­dom, and we’re will­ing to work with you to ensure that you get there. If you ever have ques­tions regard­ing the flows or trou­ble per­form­ing the move­ments, we’re just an email away.

That said, we rec­og­nize that this course might not be all things to all peo­ple. We’re totally cool with that.

Here’s the not-so-fine print:

If you aren’t happy, we don’t want your money.

Try the Prasara Primer for 60 days. Fol­low the included pro­gres­sion. And if you’re not sat­is­fied that Prasara has made a huge dif­fer­ence in your move­ment capa­bil­i­ties after work­ing on the flows, just ask us within 60 days for a refund. Even bet­ter, get in touch sooner, and we’ll help you make adjust­ments to get more out of your prac­tice, so there’s really no way you can not make progress.

There sim­ply isn’t a Yoga prod­uct on the mar­ket that can match this one.

The Prasara Primer gets 10/10 from me. If it can take a ter­ri­ble Yoga prac­ti­tioner like me who couldn’t stand the idea of Yoga prac­tice and turn me into a will­ing daily prac­tioner, imag­ine what it can do for some­one else with more abil­ity and patience.

To Coach Hurst for restor­ing my faith in Yoga, and open­ing up end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties I never thought pos­si­ble as an ath­lete, father and human being, thank you from the bot­tom of my heart.

B. Den­net

You Owe It to Your­self – Max­i­mize Your Flow

The Prasara Primer has already helped hun­dreds of ath­letes per­form bet­ter. We’ve also helped desk jock­eys, soc­cer moms, and other reg­u­lar peo­ple find more joy and free­dom in mov­ing their bod­ies. Ver­sion 2.1 takes things to the next level, giv­ing you clearer expla­na­tion, new videos, and an easy-to-follow pro­gres­sion you can use to tackle the flows.

You owe it to your­self to put Prasara Yoga to work in your life, whether you’re try­ing to improve your ath­letic per­for­mance, start work­ing out again, or just bring a lit­tle bit of fun back into your routine.

Prasara Primer Deluxe Edition

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P.S.There is sim­ply no bet­ter pro­gram for learn­ing Prasara Yoga and putting it into prac­tice in your life. There are tons of yoga DVDs on the mar­ket that will teach you a few poses, but they won’t give you a pro­gram with day-by-day direc­tions for get­ting the most our of your prac­tice. Most impor­tantly, they won’t give you Flow.

If you just want another yoga pro­gram col­lect­ing dust, go to Wal-Mart. If you want clear, log­i­cal expla­na­tions and plans for reduc­ing pain, improv­ing mobil­ity, and increas­ing per­for­mance, Prasara Primer is for you. Get it now.

P.P.S. — Don’t for­get that you’ll have 60 days to try to Prasara Primer, risk free. There are no sub­scrip­tions and noth­ing else to buy before you can begin to expe­ri­ence Flow with the Prasara Primer.

Can’t sing enough praises about the Prasara Primer. It’s what I’ve been look­ing for in a yoga instruc­tional. It leaves the guess­work out of the prac­tice so the prac­ti­tioner can focus every ounce of energy on get­ting into flow. All other con­cerns are left at the door.

The Primer will chal­lenge many people’s notions of just what yoga is – there is no fluff here. The deluxe bun­dle is awe­some. There’s some­thing for all lev­els of prac­ti­tioner and all styles of learn­ing. The only thing they could add to beef up the pack­age is to have Ryan show up at your door and per­son­ally kick your butt into high gear – which might be too scary for some, so maybe it’s a wise move to hold off on that bonus.

There’s lit­er­ally some­thing for every­one – My mother’s even giv­ing Prasara a shot (finally!). If it’s acces­si­ble to her, it’s acces­si­ble to anyone.

J. Belke­witch — Union, NJ