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 and never taught by Sharath. However most of his teachers who claim to have been taught by him will teach the above methods, exercises, & postures, even though none of what they teach is part of the Ashtanga method of instruction under Sharath. Pattabhi Jois also did not require students to independently drop back and come up from back bending before progressing to the 2nd series. Sharath changed the requirements, and has now made this mandatory. However, it is important to note that Pattabhi Jois was the founder of the system, and taught each of his original students differently, instructing