Yoga Programs, Charts and Chants to deepen your yoga practice

Practice at home or when you travel. Here you’ll find Yoga Programs developed for you by Dana Rae Paré for home practice and self-study. There are Yoga Programs and Chants to download; Ashtanga Home Practice Cards and Self-Study DVD’s that you can buy.

Ashtanga Home Practice Card

Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series

An excellent way to practice yoga at home and on the road! Includes detailed information on how use the card as well as opening and closing chants.

Use this practice card to perfect your knowledge and practice of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary (1st) Series. The front of the card includes an explanation of the method, practice notes, the opening and closing chants, and the standing postures. The back of the card shows the seated postures and finishing sequence.

Self-Study DVD Programs

Dana has developed 3 DVD’s for home study – contact us if you would like to purchase.

Infinite Yoga DVD

Yoga for You DVD

Partner Yoga DVD

Yoga Practice Program Downloads

Dana has developed programs for self study at home or while you are on the road. They can be downloaded from iTunes and played at any convenient time. Dana gives clear instructions on how to use each program.

Art of Archery

A focused yoga practice teaching safe and effective techniques to learn and improve backbends. An excellent “back strengthening” program for all levels of students.

Restorative Yoga

Listen to Dana’s calm, soothing voice and melt away tension in your body and mind. Simple Restorative Yoga postures to gently stretch, heal and deeply relax your body while unwinding your mind.

On the Road Yoga

A complete yoga program ideal for your home, office or hotel room. The program consists of an introduction and four programs that can be practiced separately or combined for an hour long practice.

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Chant Downloads

These classic Indian chants are recited by Dana Rae Paré. Each comes in two formats: First a call and response format that helps you learn the chant line by line, then the complete chant to enable you to chant along with Dana at the correct meter. Use the Print prompt to download and print pdf copies of each chant.

In the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Tradition there is a chant at the beginning (the Invocation) and at the end (Closing) of each practice.

Ashtanga Vinyasa Invocation

Print Invocation Chant The invocation sets the tone for the practice by thanking all of the teachers that have kept yoga alive over the past 4000 years and made it available for us to experience today. The first half of the chant comes from Adi Shankaracharya’s renowned masterpiece, Yoga Taravali, which explains the role of the yoga teacher as leading the student from darkness to light – and how to destroy the poisons of existence to reveal the truth. The second half of the chant is taken from the Prayer to Patanjali which is performed each time Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are recited and honors his contribution in continuing the traditions of yoga.

Ashtanga Vinyasa Closing Chant

Print Closing Chant The closing chant is the Mangala Mantra from the Rig Veda. It dedicates the energy of the practice to the benefit of everyone in the world: “May all be well with mankind. May the leaders of the earth protect in every way by keeping to the right path. May there be goodness for those who know the earth to be sacred. May all beings everywhere be happy and free”.

Om Asatoma Satgamaya Chant

Print Om Asatoma Chant Although this is not strictly a traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa chant, this chant taken from The Upanishads, is complementary to the ashtanga philosophy and combines elements from both the invocation and closing chants. “Take us from the false to the truth, from darkness to light, from poison to nectar”.

Home Study