Anahata Yoga

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.

08/04/2026

A lot of progress in yoga is easy to miss because it doesn't look dramatic.

It looks like smoother breath when effort increases.
More control on the way out of a pose.
Less tension collecting in the shoulders and neck.

It looks like your joints feeling better the next day instead of worse.
Like not needing to chase the deepest version to feel like the practice counted.

These are quiet wins, but they are real ones.

They usually mean the body is organizing better, the nervous system is trusting more, and the practice is getting smarter.

08/04/2026

The experience of pleasure leaves a deep-rooted impression in memory, and creates a passion or attachment to the source of that pleasure. The source of the pleasure may be an animate or inanimate object. As a consequence, the cycle of ‘pleasure–attachment to the source of pleasure–desire to experience it again’ gets strengthened.

As the cycle is repeated, the attachment to the object is reinforced (samskara). The associated anxiety (tapa) of losing the object also increases. But, the object, that is, the source of pleasure, will not be available for our pleasure permanently. It is inevitably subject to change (parinama). And someday, the changed situation will no longer provide us the pleasure that we seek.

A person without awareness realizes this only when the cycle has run its course. A person with awareness realizes that pleasure can turn to pain due to the above factors (parinama-tapa-samskara).

The practice of yoga is a means to develop this awareness.

07/04/2026