Your practice gives you Chaturanga. This intensive builds the capacity to keep meeting it.

• You can complete Chaturanga, but can't comfortably pause there.

• Your shoulders repeatedly drift forward as you lower.

• Your elbows bend, but you lose the ability to actively push the floor away.

• Your wrists or shoulders take more load as the practice progresses.

• Your first few vinyasas feel strong; your later ones look completely different.

• You avoid Chaturanga when tired because you don't know how to scale the load.

• Arm balances feel disproportionately difficult despite years of practice.

• You practice frequently, yet certain parts of your upper-body strength don't seem to progress.

You may recognize this in your practice:

Built to support an existing yoga practice

No new Chaturanga “style.”
No attempt to replace the sequence.
No requirement to abandon your teacher's cues.

We temporarily take the movement apart so students can understand and strengthen its component parts, then return it to their practice.

This isn't another Chaturanga alignment workshop

Knowing where the elbows should go is different from having the strength to control your body once they get there.

The Intensive works on the physical capacities underneath the posture: pushing strength, eccentric control, scapular support, trunk integration and load tolerance

3 DAYS. ONE MOVEMENT
A LOT MORE UNDERSTANDING

Identify

FIND THE LEAK

Train the pushing, lowering, scapular and trunk strength that Chaturanga actually requires.

Day 1

BUILD THE CAPACITY

Bring that strength back into Chaturanga, transitions and repeated vinyasa, and learn how to scale intelligently when fatigue changes your capacity.

TARGET

Day 2

Day 3

CONNECT

Assess your current Chaturanga and identify where you lose support under load.

RETURN TO THE PRACTICE

About The Facilitator

Chhavi Sahal is a hatha yoga teacher and strength coach & educator for asana practitioners. She's based in India, and her work explores the intersection of asana, strength and embodied awareness, helping practitioners discover strength that conventional yoga practice may leave unexplored. Her approach moves away from performance and keeping up, toward building physical capacity with curiosity, autonomy and a deeper connection to the body.

By the end of the Intensive, students should better understand how to:

• control the descent into Chaturanga rather than drop into it;

• generate active push through the floor;

• maintain shoulder and trunk support under load;

• recognize when fatigue is changing their mechanics;

• choose an appropriate Chaturanga regression before form collapses;

• train upper-body strength outside asana;

• apply those capacities back to vinyasa, arm balances and load-bearing practice.

Student Experiences

A word from previous participants

Shifts Felt & Seen

How the movement changes

Bring the Chaturanga Strength Intensive to your Shala

Offer your students dedicated time to build the physical capacity behind a movement they meet repeatedly in practice, without changing the method you already teach.

I handle: teaching, workshop structure, participant materials and promotional creatives.

Your shala: brings the opportunity to its community.

The Intensive can be offered through a partnership/revenue-share model, keeping the financial commitment to the shala low.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who is the Chaturanga Strength Intensive for?

The Intensive is designed for yoga practitioners and teachers who regularly practise Chaturanga and want to build more strength, control and confidence under load. You do not need to be able to perform a “perfect” Chaturanga to attend.

2. Is this suitable for Ashtanga practitioners?

Yes. The Intensive is designed to complement an existing Ashtanga or vinyasa practice. We step outside the sequence temporarily to strengthen the capacities that repeated Chaturanga demands, then bring that work back into the practice.

3. Is this an alignment workshop?

Not primarily. Alignment is discussed where relevant, but the focus is capacity: pushing strength, controlled lowering, scapular support, trunk integration and the ability to maintain these qualities under load.

4. Will you change the way my students have been taught Chaturanga?

No. The Intensive does not introduce a new “style” of Chaturanga or attempt to replace a teacher’s existing method. It helps students understand and strengthen the physical components underneath the movement.

5. What happens over the three days?

The workshop progresses from assessment → capacity building → integration. Students first identify where support is being lost, then train those specific capacities, and finally apply them back to Chaturanga, transitions and repeated vinyasa.

6. Is this only for students who struggle with Chaturanga?

No. It is equally relevant for experienced practitioners who can perform Chaturanga but want greater control, endurance or understanding of how they are managing load—especially across repeated vinyasas.

7. What if a student cannot hold a full Chaturanga yet?

That is completely appropriate for this workshop. The movements are progressively scaled so students can work at a level where they can produce and build strength rather than repeatedly pushing through a version they cannot yet control.

8. Will the workshop help with arm balances and other upper-body postures?

The Intensive is Chaturanga-focused, but many of the capacities developed—pushing strength, shoulder stability, scapular control and trunk integration—also support arm balances and other load-bearing asanas.

9. Does the workshop require special equipment?

No specialised gym equipment is required. The Intensive can be run using a yoga mat and simple props commonly available in a studio or shala.

10. Can the Intensive be hosted by a yoga studio or Ashtanga shala?

Yes. The Intensive can be brought to an existing studio, school or shala as a dedicated 3-day workshop. It is designed to work alongside your existing teaching rather than replace it, and partnership or revenue-share formats can be discussed depending on the host.

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