Ashtanga Yoga Soreness

I perhaps wanted to start blogging about yoga for exactly this post's content. I "suffer" from chronic musculature soreness as a consequence of my daily practice, yet I've found little to no discussion on this subject in all the Ashtanga books I own or on the web. Why is that? Let me first elaborate my Ashtanga practice. I have never, not once, practiced under a qualified teacher and have yet to attend a Mysore class, although in the past year I have attended three Ashtanga primary series classes taught by Bill Counter in Sacramento on Wednesday evenings. No, my Ashtanga is all my own, the best I think I can do via my library and YouTube. So it goes for everyone not living in San Francisco or Copenhagen, and really, we all know it's not available in most places in the world. I believe my very first yoga book I bought was Beryl Bender Birch's Power Yoga, which I would have picked up in probably 2007 or 2008, thirteen years after its publication. While today I clearly know this as a minor variant of the Ashtanga Primary Series (as the book clearly states!), it was impossible for me reading it at night to grasp the concepts. In 2008, I was a new yogi who only practiced basic yoga with my fellow co-workers twice a week in a basement cafeteria, but even then I knew I wanted more, and even then I had already become aware of a few tenants that I would eventually read and follow in that Power Yoga book. But for the next five years I still hadn't grasped the notion of vinyasa. Only after I began practice at One Flow in 2013, which I suppose one could characterize as Power Yoga, did I then seek more information on Ashtanga. When last year I found Jois' led primary series with 6 of his advanced students on a YouTube video, I was blown away...as I imagine most Ashtangi's would be. Finally, I was able to see the practice that Birch's book espoused and seeing it actually practiced was yet another yogic epiphany. Outside Monday's work class and my 2-3 days a week at One Flow, I started practicing my best take at the Primary Series in my backyard. At most, twice a week. So I'm only a part-time Ashtangi, but I suffer from full-time soreness.