Ashtanga Yoga is actually Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Ashtanga means 'eight limbed' and Vinyasa means 'to place in a special way'. The eight limbs refers to the eight yogic paths in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

Sometimes listed as separate types of classes at a yoga studio, Vinyasa yoga tends to be more fluid, and flowing; linking movement with breath. Vinyasa classes can be slow and gentle or more vigorous depending on the class description.

Ashtanga, also a fluid class, is often a very specific set of poses done in a specific sequence.

Power yoga, is a general phrase used in the West as a catch-all to describe vigorous, fitness-based yoga classes. They tend to flow like a Vinyasa class, but much faster and intense.

Vigorous types of yoga like Ashtanga or Vinyasa are cardiovascular exercises and may cause you to lose weight if done regularly. However, just regular yoga can increase stamina, flexibility stability, and strength also it stimulates the organ and improve blood circulation.

A type of yoga

An ashtanga is a classical system described by Panatanjali in the Yoga sutras.

Juliet Pegrum has written:

'Vastu Vidya'

'Ashtanga Yoga (B&N)'

'Ashtanga yoga'