Welcome!
YogaLife Cyprus is a holistic Yoga Centre based on the Risiculture Astanga Yoga System
What is Yoga ?
Yoga is a tested and structured system for health, balance of emotions, clearness of mind and spiritual development. This system includes body postures and movements combined with breath (Hatha Yoga), breathing exercises (Pranayama) and concentration, meditation and relaxation techniques (Raja Yoga).
Yoga practices work constructively with the most important elements for health and strength: Spine, nervous, circulatory and endocrine systems. It is also the safest and maybe the only way to activate and exercise the brain in a holistic manner. Thus, Yoga fills the gap in managing those forms of psychosomatic syndromes which until now, medical science has found difficult to treat.
New members
New members are welcome into classes and activities once they have taken the private introductory class which will prepare them for the group. This class includes breathing practices and the practice of specific yoga poses which form the basis of our practices.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy combines the Gitananda Yoga values and the personal, experience and philosophy of the instructor Anandhi-Korina Kontaxaki.
1) Small groups for personal contact and personal interest to the Yoga student
2) Apply Yoga in daily life and not only a few sessions per week
Yoga is a way of life and not a few sessions per week. People are excited about the benefits of Yoga, but actually they experience only a small percentage of these benefits if they do not make the effort for a Yogic life.Yogic life includes application of Yoga philosophy in life, Yogic diet, Yogic cleansing methods, Yogic breathing and much more. The main project a goal of “YogaLife” is a holistic approach to Yoga through special seminars, philosophical discussions, teaching of small individual programs, teaching of the cleansing methods, yogic diet, and much more.
3) Focusing on the spiritual side of Yoga and not only on the fitness part
Spiritual development is the ultimate goal of each individual. Yoga teaches us how to maintain a healthy body and mind so we can move on and evolve. If we stop only at the fitness and health part, we stop at the beginning of the path.
4) Yogic step-by-step approach
There is no need to be flexible or to know about Yoga to start Yogalessons. Yoga practices are what we would do if we already had contact with ourbody and mind. We stretch, we squeeze, we put an order to our thoughts, weconcentrate on something beautiful so that we forget the hard parts of our day,we visualize, and we take big breaths. The Sanskrit world “Asana” is translatedas “posture” but is more than that. It means “comfortable, steady pose”. To follow the term “Asana” we must let our body to absorb each practice before we move to a more complicated one.
5) Regularity, Repetition and Rhythm, The three R’s of the Gitananda Yoga tradition
Using the three R’s, we talk to the body and we use the powerful body memory for our benefit.A thought makes an action which can make a habit, which forms a character. Through repeating something, the same day, the same time, regularly, we create a tremendous accumulation of power, which can push us through many obstacles.
1) Small groups for personal contact and personal interest to the Yoga student
2) Apply Yoga in daily life and not only a few sessions per week
Yoga is a way of life and not a few sessions per week. People are excited about the benefits of Yoga, but actually they experience only a small percentage of these benefits if they do not make the effort for a Yogic life.Yogic life includes application of Yoga philosophy in life, Yogic diet, Yogic cleansing methods, Yogic breathing and much more. The main project a goal of “YogaLife” is a holistic approach to Yoga through special seminars, philosophical discussions, teaching of small individual programs, teaching of the cleansing methods, yogic diet, and much more.
3) Focusing on the spiritual side of Yoga and not only on the fitness part
Spiritual development is the ultimate goal of each individual. Yoga teaches us how to maintain a healthy body and mind so we can move on and evolve. If we stop only at the fitness and health part, we stop at the beginning of the path.
4) Yogic step-by-step approach
There is no need to be flexible or to know about Yoga to start Yogalessons. Yoga practices are what we would do if we already had contact with ourbody and mind. We stretch, we squeeze, we put an order to our thoughts, weconcentrate on something beautiful so that we forget the hard parts of our day,we visualize, and we take big breaths. The Sanskrit world “Asana” is translatedas “posture” but is more than that. It means “comfortable, steady pose”. To follow the term “Asana” we must let our body to absorb each practice before we move to a more complicated one.
5) Regularity, Repetition and Rhythm, The three R’s of the Gitananda Yoga tradition
Using the three R’s, we talk to the body and we use the powerful body memory for our benefit.A thought makes an action which can make a habit, which forms a character. Through repeating something, the same day, the same time, regularly, we create a tremendous accumulation of power, which can push us through many obstacles.
6) Proper breathing
The only autonomous action that can also be manipulated can change ourlife when used properly. Proper breathing is the first lesson in Yoga and most are very much surprised to realize that only a few changes to some breathing habits can change their stress levels, their quality of life, the body, and the state of mind.
7) Organized training of the mind and organized step by step self knowledge
The mind has great powers and we use only a small percentage of it. Self knowledge is maybe the most difficult project of someone’s life. There is no other system than Yoga that has so many methods of working with the mind and revealing the real self. A very important part of the “YogaLife” sessions is “inward psychoanalysis” and “unlocking the codes of mind” using methods based on Yogic Psychology.
The only autonomous action that can also be manipulated can change ourlife when used properly. Proper breathing is the first lesson in Yoga and most are very much surprised to realize that only a few changes to some breathing habits can change their stress levels, their quality of life, the body, and the state of mind.
7) Organized training of the mind and organized step by step self knowledge
The mind has great powers and we use only a small percentage of it. Self knowledge is maybe the most difficult project of someone’s life. There is no other system than Yoga that has so many methods of working with the mind and revealing the real self. A very important part of the “YogaLife” sessions is “inward psychoanalysis” and “unlocking the codes of mind” using methods based on Yogic Psychology.
