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[quote=Anonymous]I highly recommend Ashtanga Yoga for anyone who wants the physicality and the meditative benefits without the endless prattling of a mass-produced instructor.

As traditionally practiced, Mysore-style, everyone learns the set sequence at their own speed and does their own practice in a room full of people also doing their own practice, in silence, while the teacher moves around and provides one-on-one assistance as needed. It's physically demanding ("power yoga" and similar all have their roots in Ashtanga), but as you progress, you'll be asked to focus on the other limbs of yoga to deepen your practice. Breathing, meditation, non-attachment, non-harm, etc. The teacher is there to help, but it's really your own responsibility to learn what you need. No preaching. Even in a led class, the teacher traditionally just calls out the asanas and counts the breaths, with no editorializing.

A true Ashtanga shala can be hard to find in most places, but DC is lucky in that there are several in the city. There are also several very experienced teachers who operator their Mysore programs out of general studios or other spaces.

Fair warning, once you commit to Ashtanga, you'll find generic studio classes to be really unfulfilling and a total waste of money.
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