Hatha Yoga

In the holistic approach of Yoga Philosophy, we find Asana - the third branch out of the 8, as Patanjali (the man who first put Yoga in writing thousands of years ago) indicated in Yoga Sutra. In order to transcend the limitations imposed by the senses and the never-ending thoughts vortex manufactured by the Chitta | monkey mind, Asana Yoga guides us to shift the energy flow from descending to ascending and to release on the physical level all the accumulated energetical blockages so that we can, through devotion and consistency, experience more refined states of consciousness. So, the body becomes the very first vehicle through which you experience on a practical level the Yoga teachings.

But mind and body are not separate entities. The grosser form of the mind is the body and the subtle form of the body is the mind. The mind and body alike hide tensions and bottlenecks of stagnant energy. Each tension accumulated on the mental layer has a physical correspondence and the other way around. Hatha Yoga helps to release this tension by somatically acting on the physical layer.

The Hatha Yoga class closely follows the teachings and techniques of traditional Hatha Yoga.

    • Pawanmuktasan warm-up as a massage for joints and articulations and preparation for asana | physical postures practice

    • Surya Namaskara | Sun Salutation to generate prana | vital force in the body

    • With the body already warmed up we practice a flow to restore health as a natural way of living. We penetrate the depth of the practice through various Pranayama and meditation techniques. There is only you and your breathing on the mat, your very inhalation and exhalation will support you during the practice. The consciously restored balance between breathing and physical movement will sustain you throughout the class.

    • amplifies body awareness

    • improves focus

    • builds a deeper connection with your breath

    • physical tension relief

    • building resilience

    • unlocks stagnant energy knots within the body

    • sets the ground for meditative practices

Hatha Yoga & Sound Healing

The body stores energy in different forms: chakras (main and secondary) - which are energy vortexes, nadis - which are energy channels, granthis - which are physical and psychic energy accumulations within chakras. The embedded primal, vital force (prana) in the human being is supposed to flow freely within the body. But the sometimes hectic life we live prevents us from experiencing harmony in its fullest. Which is why the body and mind alike experience inflexibility and rigidity. In order to restore the natural pranic flow the class debutes with asana | physical posture. Each asana will support the body - breath - mind to release unnecessary tension and set the ground for even more profound layers of relaxation induced by the healing power of sound.

The Hatha Yoga class closely follows the teachings and techniques of traditional Hatha Yoga.

    • a blend between Pawanmuktasan series | a massage for joints and articulations and asana | physical postures practice

    • the asana flow may include: Surya Namaskara | Sun Salutation to generate prana | vital force in the body and various other Hatha Yoga postures

    • the physical approach of the practice sets the ground for the nourishing power of the sound healing techniques (including planetary gong, tibetan bowls, various percussion instruments)

    • to ground the effects of the practice the class includes Pranayama and meditation techniques.

    • energetical recalibration through asanas - physical postures

    • amplifies breath

    • builds a more profound connection between body - breath - mind

    • energetical cleanse of the vibrational field through Sound Healing

Nada Yoga

Nada is the Yoga of vibration and sound.

Sound is an utterly powerful tool in pacifying the restless mind. In a Nada Yoga class we use sound as an instrument to influence the entire brain, body and mind. Starting from external layouts of the physical experience, we build the way through Nada Yoga towards inner sounds. The practice does not put a highlight on the physical flow of the body, but particularly guides towards pratyahara - sensorial withdrawal, dharana - capacity to holistically concentrate the mind on a single point and dhyana - the encompassing state of deep meditation.

Just as the body is made of flesh and blood, similarly chakras | energy vortexes inside physical body are constituted of sound, symbol and light. Hence, when sound attains a certain momentum of frequency, it influences the chakras. Therefore, Nada Yoga is an instrument in the awakening of the potential energy resting at the base of the spine.

Nada Yoga is extensively much more than a Yoga class combined with Sound healing even if during the class sound instruments will be used. Nada Yoga bridges the idea that mind is energy and energy appears as sound. If consciousness can become aware of that sound it will realize its own nature because ultimately the two forces - Shiva and Shakti | masculine and feminine - cannot be kept separate from each other.

  • The session layout may differ from class to class, but generally it will include:

    • mantra chanting - in opening and closing the class

    • use of various sound instruments, mainly tibetan bowls and planetary gongs

    • various practices for the holistic approach of chakras - mixing asanas | physical postures, mantras, mudras | hand gestures promoting energy flow with specific purposes, bhandas | energy locks.

    • guided meditation - including meditation upon mahabhutas - five primordial elements, gunas - fundamental forces of nature.

    • calms down the hectic mind

    • helps in building the understanding you are neither only the physical body, nor your thoughts/mind

    • refines inner listening skills

    • supports th healthy expression of your voice

    • works in a holistic manner upon the vibrational and evolutionary system of the chakras

    • promotes a healthier lifestyle by bridging the physical body with all the other subtle covers of your Soul.

Vinyasa Flow 

We all accumulate during the week a lot of physical, mental, emotional residual tension. The fundamental architecture of the body naturally asks for release and if you are not the one deciding to consciously offer this self-care moments to yourself, the body will decide on your behalf.

Vinyasa Yoga is a contemporary Yoga style designed as a dynamic flow of physical postures put together to form a sequence. Either focusing on pace or alignment, a Vinyasa class is all about taking good care of your physical body and developing an understanding of the instrumental role it plays in one’s evolution and experience of higher states of consciousness.

  • In a Vinyasa class, each asana | physical posture is synchronised with th breath. The breath is given primacy so it becomes the tool to be used in order to remain engaged in th practice. The entire flow is cued by inhalatio and exhalation as observation points for your practice dynamics.

    Vinyasa Flow offers the right frame for flexibility not only in physical, bodily terms, but alo because the progression of postures is varied and non-linear. Each class becomes in this way an opportunity to explore yourself from various angles.

  • Vinyasa’s dynamic nature promotes:

    • body awareness

    • increased flexibility

    • physical strength

    • overall boosted stamina

    • increased breath awareness

    • a significant actor in heart health

    • reduces arterial stiffness

    • low blood sugar levels

    • reduces stress

Restorative Yoga

We navigate daily through hectic scenarios of the existence. The mind stirs and very easily becomes prone to various scenarios. Any thought you might choose, the mind will feed with even more offshots. We accumulate and store on a daily basis all these thoughts, emotions, feelings which stimulates us physically, emotionally, intelectually, energetically. The footprint: an inflexibility with which we are not confortable with, but which became part of our lives. Gently, you can shift the frame of perception by cultivating responsibility for the restlessness coming from your thoughts. Restorative Yoga sets the ground for an honest, contemplative self-observance.

What is Restorative Yoga?

Restorative Yoga is a profound relaxation experience which facilitates the recalibration of the autonomic nervous system. The Restorative practice will support you to shift from the accumulated stress effects towards an integrative state of relaxation, healing and energetical recomposition.

Is Restorative Yoga suitable for you?

As long as you hold useless tension in your body then Restorative Yoga is for you. It is a practice which can literally help anyone and it is accesible regardless of the student’s experience.

Why should you practice Restorative Yoga?

Restorative Yoga may seem an easy practice because it does not challenges you on the physical level, and using the props supports the body to settle as comfortable as it can. Though, it teaches us that relaxation can happen only when awareness is present. Restorative Yoga faces you with strong unconscious narratives which hijacks your capacity to relax. The biggest challenge in Restorative Yoga is to calm the mind fluctuations and to accept it is that easy to relax.

  • At the surface of the practice, the entire muscular-skeletal system shakes off. Each asana | physical posture is generously sustained by accesories | props (pillows, blocks, bolsters) and effortlessly maintained for a few minutes (5-10 min). All postures are supine. The focus is not on the active muscular stretch, but on a physical recreation through a passive stretch. In this way, the body releases tension and makes room for a confortable experience of rejuvenation. The asana conforts becomes a catalyst for change and a way by which you can accede to a more refined Yoga purpose, experienced far beyond the asana and Yoga mat - the experience of freedom.

  • •Balances the activity of the autonomic nervous system it is an excellent grounding practice

    • Releases muscular tension improves the amplitude and breath rhythm

    • Supports a healthy collab between body - breath - mind - soul

    • It has a positive impact upon stress, anxiety, insomnia, arterial pressure

    • Harmonizes blood flow to all internal organs

    • Supports the optimal functioning of the immune system

    • Supports a nourishing sleep

    • Improves focus and analysis capacity

    • Builds upon the ability to formulate a swift and balanced answer in front of daily challenges

    • Induces a deep, healing relaxation statefor the entire body

    • Guids the student towards meditation practice

Morning Yoga 

The beginning of the day is an excellent indicator of physical and mental flexibility. The morning practice invariably points out where the body holds tension and which are the stimuli in front of which we automatically reply. Without straining the body, but rather following its limitations, we observe how many of them are self-induced based on fear and how many are the result of lack of presence through appropriate decisions for healthy living. We allow the practice, through care and consideration, to support us in negotiating with our own limitations, not no aggressively pushing them away.

The Hatha Yoga class closely follows the teachings and techniques of traditional Hatha Yoga.

  • We devote the Yoga practice to solar energy. We loosen up the body tension with Sun Salutation | Surya Namaskara and we vary with various poses to support our vitality throughout the day. Taking advantage of the still calm mind, which is not yet engaged in the daily activities, we anchor through breathing in the present moment and we set the vibe of the unfolding day from a state of presence.

    The Yoga class includes Pranayama and meditation.

    • body awareness

    • mindful start of the day

    • creates connection between intention and action

    • meditative approach for plans throughout the day

    • promotes a calm and peaceful state of mind

    • healthy movement of prone / vital force

Gong Bath

A Gong Bath is a therapy using planetary gongs as main characters. A planetary gong is an instrument created on the frequency of a specific planet from the Solar System. As it is an idiophone instrument - which means once it is touched it produces sounds from its entire being without the intervention of an auxiliary tool - a gong has the tremendous capacity to transcend the barrier of the physical body and penetrate on a cellular level. A gong bath is based on the resonance principle - an energetically loaded entity wanting to touch and work on other entity made out of energy.

What benefits does a gong bath have?

  • stimulates, updates and upgrades the autonomous nervos system activity

  • facilitates the transition from Beta waves towards Alpha and Theta

  • rebalances the activity between the two cerebral hemispheres

  • dramatically decreases the risk of cardiac diseases

  • stimulates serotonin production (through Alpha waves update - reaching between 8-14 Hz)

  • impacts all sheats of the human body - physical, energetical, emotional, psychic

  • leads towards profound meditative states

  • reduces inflammation in the body

  • immediately positively impacts the pain experienced in the physical body

  • promotes the creation and rejuvenation of stem cells

  • improves stress and burnout symptoms

  • promotes the release of a hormonal cocktail which will induce a deep relaxation in the body and mind.

IMPORTANT: Please hydrate extensively before and after a Gong Bath session in order to prepare the body and mind to receive practice’s full benefits and to ground deep at a cellular level all its effects.

  • A Gong Bath is an experience of freedom and personal openness. From a laid down posture - either Shavasana (completely laid down on your back), or fetal posture, or simple crossed legs as in meditation - the session promotes a new level of complete relaxation. Once the gong starts to release its vibrations your only job is to be curious. The gong bath per se usually lasts between 45-60 minutes, but by the end of the practice we will experience together few moments of complete silence. This will vary depending on the group’s energy

    • stimulates, updates and upgrades the autonomous nervos system activity

    • facilitates the transition from Beta waves towards Alpha and Theta

    • rebalances the activity between the two cerebral hemispheres

    • dramatically decreases the risk of cardiac diseases

    • stimulates serotonin production (through Alpha waves update - reaching between 8-14 Hz)

    • impacts all sheats of the human body - physical, energetical, emotional, psychic

    • leads towards profound meditative states

    • reduces inflammation in the body

    • immediately positively impacts the pain experienced in the physical body

    • promotes the creation and rejuvenation of stem cells

    • improves stress and burnout symptoms

    • promotes the release of a hormonal cocktail which will induce a deep relaxation in the body and mind.

Sound Healing

Sound has accompanied man since the dawn of times. From Indu Valley, to Aboriginal Australians, ancient Egyptians, mythological Greece and up to date, sound healing has been used in order to improve man’s lifestyle. From physical illness to emotional and energetical therapeutical approaches, sound assisted humans in developing harmony in their existence. Nowadays we use sound healing for the exact same reasons as in the ancient times. We, in this stage of mankind’s evolution, only adapted the cause of the reasoning behind.

What is Sound Healing?

Sound Healing is a tool based on resonance principle, through which we unite the frequency of the inner microcosmos with higher frequencies of the macrocosmos in order to elevate the Self. Depending on the intention behind the practice, sound healing can be either used as a profound relaxation method or an exploratory ground for complex self-knowledge.

Sound Healing has some determinative principles which offer its universal, holistic allure:

  • Resonance - we are made of a considerable percentage of water. Water leads vibration. The dense molecules of water allow the energy flow from one cell to another. When the sound’s vibrance meets the water element in the human body, it makes it vibrate as well. This is why we count as a benefit of Sound Healing exactly this celular rejuvenation. Once the water starts vibrating in the human body, it has the capacity to shake and rearrange the information inside the physical structure.

  • Entrainment - aka synchronising the human body with a specific frequency. In the Sound Healing context, as a psycho-emotional healing method, the concept means using the external sound source to rebalance the internal information. The sound gains in this way a conducive layer, becoming the connective tissue between the body’s vibration and the harmony it is supposed to naturally experience.

  • Intention - the purpose of using the sound. Unlike the entertainment industry, in sound bathing experiences the guide becomes an energy channel through which this healing and restorative energy is created and embodied in the practice. The sonor waves produced by the person using Sound Healing will be infused by that person’s energy. So, it is more than the sound’s amplitude which guides towards self-exploration and restoration, but also the intention behind the practice itself.

Is Sound Healing suitable for you?

As long as you are curious and open about it, absolutely yes. Sound does not harm anyone, consequently a Sound Healing session does not come with any attendance restriction.

IMPORTANT: Please hydrate extensively before and after a Sound Healing session in order to prepare the body and mind to receive practice’s full benefits and to ground deep at a cellular level all its effects.

  • During a Sound Healing session multiple instruments will be used: - tibetan bowls; - percussion instruments reproducing sound of nature (water, thunder, rain, birds); - voice (sometimes). The class can be experienced from a complete laid down posture or from standing pose or meditation asana, depending on the class layout.

    Please note: depending on the class layout, the tibetan bowls will be placed on top of your body in order for you to absorb the vibrations

  • • provides physical pain relief

    • lowers stress and anxiety

    • balances extreme moods and mood swings

    • improves sleep quality

    • harmonizes blood flow to all internal organs

    • better joints movement

    • positively impacts blood pressure, heart rate, EEG measurements, galvanic skin response

    • cleanse the energetical body

    • supports deep emotional discharges

    • decreases mental fluctuations - activate change of brain waves from Beta to Alfa and Theta

    • guides the mind towards sensorial withdrawal and allows access to deeper states of meditation

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra is a conscious relaxation technique. Also known as “dynamic sleep” or “the yogi sleep”, Nidra (trans. sleep) is a systematized method that induces a profound relaxation on a physical, mental, and emotional level. At the borderline between the sleep state and active conscious state, Nidra steps in as a subconscious and unconscious dimension.

The fundamental feature of Yoga Nidra is the rotation of consciousness on the entire body. Gradually creating and following the roadmap of the practice invites the mind to disconnect from the sensorial information which, generally, restricts the relaxation capacity. When this state of allowing the tension to be released starts off, also there is an increase in receptivity.

The mind has multiple layers. Some are hard soil, others are quite sensitive. The conscious mind is difficult to penetrate because its main MO (modus operandi) is the intellect, and logic. The intellect is an analysis process, it does not accept a lot of things. But deeper layers of the consciousness are not quite the same, anything you plant inside the subconscious mind it will not be neither neglected, nor rejected, but on the contrary, will feed and fill in pieces of puzzle in your existence.

Sensorial loaded life means a dispersion of human energy on all levels of existence. The mind diminished its ability to live in balance and harmony within all the spheres of activity. The main imbalance element does not hide in the physical body, but in the ever-changing human, individual ideals, in the way of thinking and feeling, influenced by the society in which he himself/herself is trying to blend in with a minimum of a compromise.

Is Yoga Nidra suitable for you?

Regardless if you perform physical work or a 9 to 5 job, if you have a protein-rich diet, if you are vegan or not, if you sleep a lot or not enough, all these imbalances (too much, too little) imprint in various layers of personality, they accumulate in the muscular, emotional, mental layers generating multiple forms of inflexibility. Yoga Nidra works with a sharply calibrated periscope in order to release all these tensions.

  • Depending on the duration of the practice, Yoga Nidra is recommended to be experienced from meditation, simple crossed legs posture, or completely laid down in Shavasana | corpse pose. Most of the time we practice in Shavasana not to be distracted by physical signals after keeping the body in a meditation pose. In this way, we have plenty of time to deepen the experience and allow it to penetrate even the most sensitive layers of the mind.

  • • Supports conscious, reliable shift of life approach

    • Enhances creativity

    • Improves focus capacity and memory

    • Improves locus of control

    • Brings inside clarity

    • Supports optimal functioning of the endocrine system

    • Works on an optimal blood glucose index

    • Supports in producing dopamine

    • Brings a profound muscular relaxation

Guided Meditation

Authentical self-knowledge is a steady, never-ending process. The purposeless accumulation of information and experiences disturbs the quality of the present moment and the future objective understanding. The world as a whole is not any different from ourselves and our activities, the problems are created by us, by what we are, by our way of thinking. The struggle emerges from most of us having no direct self-observance and knowledge about ourselves, but we look for it in a system, a method, a means to solve the numerous problems we experience.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of meditation. As Patanjali, Krishnamurti, and many other great thinkers of this world taught us. But that form of self-knowledge emerged from a vigilant, awakened, non-judging consciousness.

If I don’t understand my way of thinking and my own feelings, I cannot subsequently understand my desires, my fears, and the motivations that generate my needs and searchings. If I don’t know myself, my thinking has a shaky foundation, gradually and inevitably indulging myself in confusion and illusions. This very understanding appears only after the conscious mind has been previously calmed down. Only when the mind is calm it becomes receptive to subconscious suggestions.

Without self-knowledge, there is no right thinking, and without right thinking what you do is senseless, as the theory of the form without substance, regardless of how noble your intentions are. The thinking anchored in the present moment generated the right action. In turn, the right action suppresses the internal turmoil and consequently, there is no need for you to look out for a method or a person outside yourself to drag you out of the confusing state you are experiencing. Exactly because you access your very own internal resources.

A fully aware human being meditates.

Guided meditation is creating a timeslot (yup, bounded by the borders of this dimension on which we guide our existence) where I will channel the energy inwards, beyond judgment experiencing a revigorating mental shower that installs clarity, confidence and a swift and balanced reply in front of the suffering and joy life brings self-discovery, beyond the tensioned gap between who I am now and what I long for to become someday.

  • Like from a comfortable posture. Simple crossed legs pose (Shiva’s posture) preferably, but not mandatory (this is Yoga, not school), extended legs, if necessary using accessories | props such as blocks, bolsters, pillows, even the wall if we need extra support. Essentially, the spine is completely straight. We remove the physical discomfort so as not to suffocate the mind and to allow the energy to be channeled toward introspection.

  • Apart from the comprehensive positive effects list which circulates in the specialty and self-development literature, out of which I pick some such as:

    • It reduces stress and anxiety

    • Improves sleep quality

    • Improves focus and memory power

    • Strengthens the immune system

    • Supports the optimal functioning of all the body’s vital systems

    …. Meditation inherently and essentially supports creating a space where the mind is free

Kids Yoga

It is about joy, movement, a happy story, smiles and love. A child is a miracle.

In nowadays world, Kids Yoga offers the opportunity to develop child’s physiological skills, as well as mental ability for engaging in mindful games and the ability to explore the surrounding world and balance the emotional loading.

Indian Yogis developed the physical side of Yoga - asanas - by observing the nature. This is why a lot of postures are named after animals. Imagine how funny and useful in the same time is for kids to translate these asanas into imitating animal movements with their own bodies.

Recommendations: please read carefully the class description. Also, make sure the child will not eat with at least one hour in advance and he/she will be wearing comfortable clothing during the Yoga class.

The class is guided by Florina Adam, certified Kids Yoga instructor.

  • Each moment during a Yoga class for kids is flavoured with stories and games. Watching from outside, a Kids Yoga class seems like a theater play; but the costumes are replaced by conscious movements lived with maximum presence. During the 45 minutes session, movements and imaginative games will make up the scene of a mindful activity for the kid.

    The themed classes will be about: seasons, celebrations, as well as from other interest areas: zoo, carnivals, transportation, mythology etc.

    The class follows some pillars in terms of activity coordination, but the energy of the group will always be the most important pillar to consider. The plan can anyway sound like:

    • settle down

    • greetings

    • warm-up (Yoga asanas)

    • movements flow (Yoga asanas - standard and adaptions) - may vary from dynamic to static and may include: twists, inversions, team work

    • stretching

    • relaxation

    • breathing techniques

    • games and activities to make them familiar with meditation

    • discussing their homework (not that kind of homework, but they will have to take under their consideration the involvement in the Yoga class participation)

    • gratefulness practice

    • appreciation.

    • cultivates concentration

    • develops focus ability

    • develops balance - physical and emotional

    • supports a harmonious development for the kid

    • decreases hyperactivity and associated behaviours

    • builds body and breath awareness

    • develops the activity of the central nervous system

    • improves various imbalances of the body - in spine or other major parts in the body.

Private Yoga 

We live in a body which is faced on a daily basis with indiscretions. And as it is equipped with a wisdom which transcends our sensorial capacities, it stores the effects of all these indiscretions and it signals us in various ways that it needs our deepest care and love. But the mind, this monkey jumping from here to there, impatiently awaits the next plan, the next idea, the next activity, the next sensorial delight. Consequently, it feels like we are denying our own body & mind the opportunity to live in a more compassionate, aware manner.

A private Yoga class replies to this very invitation. In extension to a group class, we consider all the specifical individual imbalances and we told them on the most appropriate rhythm to support energetically restoration of the body - breath - mind - Soul. Vital force is brought back to a flowing state.

The Hatha Yoga private class closely follows the teachings and techniques from traditional Hatha Yoga.

For available time slots and bookings, please get in touch with me.

    • hands-on assist - as it is a 1:1, it naturally becomes more easy for me, as your guide, to assist you in your practice. My undivided attention translates into real time suggestions and adjustments

    • customised sadhana | practice - Yoga is a practice of inclusivity, it is also adaptogen. Which means for you to experience the maximum effect of the practice, all the guidance will be adapted to your capacities and needs.

    • level of presence - regardless if you are just meeting Yoga or you feel like you need some guidance in your practice, the complexity degree and setup of your sadhana | practice is only decided by the capacity of being present in your own breath and life. Let’s use “beginner” for being curious and “advanced” for deepening the knowledge.

    • alignment & technicality - asana | physical posture is just one step from Yoga. But it is quite an important and extremely useful one. This is why we should lean upon it with responsibility and attention. Relaxation only happens when awareness is present and this can be experienced by listening and honouring the body’s message.