Anahata Yoga

29/07/2026

Happy Guru Purnima!

Traditionally, Guru Purnima was the day students offered Guru Dakshina-gratitude for the priceless gift of knowledge. We must surely continue to do that by supporting teachers and organisations that are spreading knowledge of Sanathana Dharama.

It serves as a powerful reminder of the transformative impact that teachers, in their various roles, have on our lives. Guru Purnima is a day dedicated to acknowledging the fundamental role educators play in shaping not only individuals but society. Guru Purnima supports a collective recognition of the debt we owe to those who illuminate our minds and our passions. This celebration highlights the importance of Guru Purnima as a time to honor and express gratitude towards our teachers, mentors, and guides, who selflessly impart knowledge and wisdom, shaping our paths and destinies.

In essence, this celebration becomes a powerful communal expression of appreciation. It strengthens the bonds of respect and gratitude that connect us across generations which ensures the continued transmission of knowledge and wisdom.

However the greatest Guru Dakshina we can offer is not just a gift.

It is to study the teachings handed down to us, live them with sincerity, and pass this wisdom on to the next generation.

This Guru Purnima, let us bow with gratitude to Maharishi Veda Vyasa and to all the gurus who continue to light our path.

17/07/2026

16/07/2026

Is freedom having more choices—or being less controlled by them?

The Yoga Sutras offers a surprising answer through the principle of vairāgya (non-attachment).

Vairāgya doesn't mean renouncing the world. It means developing the inner freedom to step back from the constant pulls of our senses, habits, and desires. Sri T. Krishnamacharya often taught that even good health requires a degree of vairāgya. Without it, we're easily driven by impulses rather than conscious choices.

Modern psychology echoes this insight. While some choice is essential, endless options often lead to anxiety, dissatisfaction, and decision fatigue—not greater happiness.

The Yoga Sutras invite us to cultivate a different kind of freedom: not the freedom to have more, but the freedom to be less compelled.

To explore these teachings further, join Yoga Sutras & Samkhya: A Complete Journey Through Patanjali's Path, where the teachings of the Yoga Sutras and Samkhya are presented with clarity and practical relevance.

The course link is in the first comment.

22/06/2026

Every pose is a question.

The shape is only the beginning.
A posture does not end when the body arrives.

In Tadasana, a small lift of the kneecaps can change the whole leg.
In Warrior II, the breath may show whether effort has become strain.

With props, the body may reveal where it has been compensating.
In supported restoration, stillness may show what movement usually hides.

Each pose gives feedback.
Each adjustment gives information.
Each breath becomes part of the learning.

The body does not speak loudly.
But when we stay attentive, it teaches.

💬 What did one pose teach you recently?
📍Practice with us and experience how attention transforms movement into learning.

16/06/2026

I seek to practice with other teachers, and yet time and again, I get discouraged by the dilution and the misappropriation of what yoga is about. As an educator, if I’m being honest, it is exhausting - the peoples, not the practice.

May we find light to guide us and humility to accept the roots of this ancient practice and wisdom to keep it going.

Om Shanti 🙏

07/05/2026

05/05/2026

Hatha Yoga

This class is beginner-friendly and focuses on mindful movement and breathing (pranayama). The practice is designed to support balance, posture and breath awareness, giving a sense of calm, and a feeling of more ease in your body.

Thursdays, 9h - 10h30
Fayence

30/04/2026

To understand happiness, observe what happens when we are happy. When we feel happy there's an expansion of our mental space and we feel free. We laugh, we sing, we dance. These are all signs of happiness. In Yoga, we use the word sukha for this. The word sukha has two syllables, "kham" meaning "space" and "su" which means "pleasant" or "expanded". That is, there's an expansion of our mental space. That is sukha. This expansion is responsible for our happiness.

When the opposite happens, that is, when there is constriction or pollution of this mental space, we feel unhappy. The word that is used in Yoga for this is dukha, "kham" meaning "space" and "du" meaning "pollution" or "constriction".

We normally relate our freedom to this sukha. When there is expansion of our mental space, we also have an associated feeling of being free. And, when there is a constriction we feel "bound".

So, normally, our sense of freedom is related to your mental space. However, according to Yoga, the real state of freedom (kaivalya) is where we remain unaffected by the changes in our mental space. Yoga also provides the means to reach this state

30/04/2026

The Amṛtasiddhi, the "Attainment of Immortality," is an 11th century Vajrayāna Buddhist text composed in Sanskrit in the Indian Deccan. It is considered by scholars to be the first text to teach the principles and practices of Haṭha Yoga.

As Orofino writes, “According to the Amṛtasiddhi, the body is a microcosm, perfectly symmetrical with the macrocosm. At its center is the avadhūtī, known as the Goddess of the Centre (madhyā), which corresponds to Mount Meru of the universe. It has two gates: the lower one, through which beings are born, and the upper one, through which only fortunate yogins proceed to attain liberation.

At its summit resides the Moon, from which the nectar of immortality descends. This nectar is of two types: one that descends through the left lunar channel (iḍā), bringing nourishment via the subtle channels to the whole body, and one that descends into the central channel, leading to procreation through sexual union.

At the base of the avadhūtī resides the Sun, which travels upward through the right channel and through the other minor channels permeates the entire body, consuming the lunar nectar and burning up the seven bodily constituents.

The union of the Sun and Moon, externally, results in procreation, while internally, it symbolizes the practice of yoga. Astronomically, this moment of union is likened to an eclipse, which is deemed auspicious from an external perspective and signifies the attainment of liberation from an internal one. Similarly, during a lunar eclipse, when the Sun is superimposed upon the Moon, a mutual union (yogaḥ) arises; this is why, as specified in the text, it is called "yoga". (Orofino 2025: 39-40).

📷 Total lunar eclipse November 8, 2022. Getty images.

📚 Orofino, Giacomella. 2025. The Dawn of Physical Yoga: Dispelling the Hindrances to Immortality.

📚 Translation by Mallinson, James, and Péter-Dániel Szántó. 2021. The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition.

13/04/2026

VEDAS AND 7 RISHIS MANIFEST IN EVERY LOKA AND YUGA as the PURANAS SAY. VEDAS Form the foundation of the mantric creation of the Universe starting with OM.
Sanskrit Vedas are the universal mantric language that connects us to Cosmic intelligence and allow us to read the secret language of all the forces of the conscious universe.
Hindu temples are designed to connect us to this universal mantric language and its Devatas, and to bring them into our human world to guide us beyond the ego-mind to the pure light of Self-awareness, Atma Jyoti.