Rocket Yoga of dedicated Ashtanga practice with his teacher Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. ROCKET is a dynamic and fast-paced method of yoga. Larry Schultz, the founder of It’s Yoga®, created The ROCKET routines, a series of postures based on a modification of the traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga primary and intermediate series. Dani Burlison of the New Bohemian Magazine says: "Rocket yoga promises to get students to fitness nirvana faster." Classes are guided with Sanskrit names of the asanas, following through 142 poses in 75 minutes in a typical class(there are alternate 60 minute and 90 minute class versions as well.) The structure
Ashtanga vinyasa yoga the teacher is to guide as well as provide adjustments or assists in postures. In other locations, twice per week Mysore-style classes are now substituted with led classes, where the teacher takes a group through the same series at the same time. The inclusion of two led classes per week was only included in P. Jois' senior years. Usually an Ashtanga practice begins with five repetitions of Surya Namaskara A and five repetitions of Surya Namaskara B, followed by a standing sequence. Following this the practitioner begins one of six series, followed by what is called the closing sequence. The