 "Yoga transforms us subtly through greater awareness of our day to day activities, adding a new dimension to even mundane things like eating, talking, fighting, sleeping, working, walking, pain, pleasure, everything."
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Lecturers of the Seminar
Swami Anandananda Saraswati: born in 1951, he met his spiritual master Swami Satyananda Saraswati in 1979 and in 1980 was initiated into the tradition of Sannyasa. Yogacharya of Satyananda Ashram Italia, since 1980 he has been teaching and spreading yoga under the instructions of his guru, specialising in the advanced techniques of yoga like kriya yoga, tattwa shuddhi, nada yoga, mantra and other techniques of meditation according to the Satyananda yoga tradition. In 1982, he founded “Satyananda Ashram Italy” and in the following year, the publishing house “Edizioni Satyananda Ashram Italia”. He has given numerous seminars and workshops at international conferences in Europe, India, Australia, Colombia and South Africa. He conducts yoga-teacher training courses and conducts lectures and seminars on different aspects and branches of yoga. Since 2003, he's been conducting courses and seminars at the Rikhia ashram (India) for many aspirants and students of Yoga.
More information you can find on www.satyanandaitalia.net
Swami Sivamurti Saraswati is the founder and director of Satyanandashram Hellas. Born and raised in Australia, where she had practiced yoga since her teens, she met Swami Satyananda as a young adult while traveling in India in 1976. She stayed with him at Bihar School of Yoga for some time gaining proficiency in the theory and practices of yoga. After being commissioned by Swami Satyananda to spread Yoga in Greece, she began teaching in Kalamata in 1978. From there, Satyananda Yoga spread quickly to other parts of Greece. Swami Sivamurti is a yoga acharya (Master of yoga) and is well known for her intuitive insight into the workings of the human psyche, mind and emotions and her keen interest in psychology and philosophy of both Eastern and Western origin, ancient and contemporary. Her compassionate and warm manner makes people of all ages feel comfortable, understood and ready to take the next step towards living life more fully. At present Swami Sivamurti is based at the ashram in Paiania and travels regularly throughout Greece, the Balkan countries and other parts of the world. She often visits India, keeping a strong bond with the source of the tradition. Her workshop in Bulgaria will be on: "Yogic Lifestyle – living with awareness" and will show us how: More information - www.satyanandashram.gr
Swami Vishwashakti Saraswati Her workshop in Bulgaria will be Marma yoga.
Marma yoga is a specialized branch of yoga in Satyananda yoga system. Marmas are energy points, and yoga means harmony. So marma yoga aims to attain harmony through the marmas. It is an integral part of the ancient ayurvedic subtle therapy. The subject of marma yoga and marma therapy is the energy level or pranamaya kosha of the human system. Through marma yoga we change condition of prana and pranic flows through nadis or energy channels, and the result is harmonious health in the mind-body and energy system. More information - www.satyanandayoga.tara.si Swami Pragyamurti Saraswati
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Swami Vishwashakti is a yoga and marmacharya, ayurvedic vachaspati (M.D. ayu), acupuncturist and homeopath. She is an acharya of Satyananda Yoga in Slovenia. She is a member of International Yoga Fellowship, co-founding member of European Yoga Fellowship and a member of Educational Council of Bihar Yoga Bharati. She is a member of International Yoga Federation and European Yoga Federation and responsible member for the region of Eastern Europe. She travels to different parts of Europe, spreading knowledge of yogic science. Her speciality is marma yoga. She gives lectures and seminars on ayurveda and marma therapy. She teaches about synergy between yoga and ancient and modern healing systems. As a member of the Council for complementary medical systems of Slovenia, she worked intensively with Slovenian Education and Health Ministry for recognition of yoga by the government of Slovenia, and she succeeded. So yoga is today recognized by both, Education and Health Ministry in Slovenia. For last 18 years she has her private medical practice in Ljubljana.
Swami Pragyamurti’s interest in the spiritual path began in the sixties when she came into contact with the teachings of the Bihar School of Yoga and its founder, Swami Satyananda Saraswati. On Swamiji’s instructions she started teaching yoga in 1971 at her house in south London, which we now know as the Satyananda Yoga Centre.