Moon Days

What are they? 

According to Vedic tradition, moon days are not good days to learn or to teach – the influence of the moon is too strong or too weak to allow for the proper assimilation of knowledge.  Thus in the Ashtanga yoga tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, yoga classes are not offered on the days of the new and full moon.

Moon days follow the Hindu calendar, according to which days are considered sunrise-to-sunrise and, additionally, may be more or less than 24 hours long as they are based not on the clock but on the relative positions of sun, earth and moon (thus the new and full moon days listed here may differ from those in other calendars).

2020 Moon Days

Full Moon             New Moon

Jan 10, Fri               Jan 24, Fri
Feb 9, Sun              Feb 23, Sun
Mar 9, Mon             Mar 24, Tue
Apr 7, Tue                Apr 22, Wed
May 7, Thu               May 22, Fri
Jun 5, Fri Jun 20, Sun
Jul 5, Sun             Jul 20, Mon
Aug 3, Mon Aug 18, Tue
Sep 2, Tue Sep 17, Thu
Oct 1, Thu Oct 16, Fri
Oct 31, Sat Nov 15, Sun
Nov 30, Mon Dec 14, Mon
Dec 29, Tue

2019 Holidays

The school is CLOSED:

May 25 – Memorial Day

Jul 3 – Independence Day

Sep 7 – Labor Day

Nov 25, 26, 27 – Thanksgiving

Dec 24– Jan 3, 2020 – Christmas/New Year’s