Joshua Garson - Prana Vashya Yoga and Ilan Lev Method

30/10/2020

Les cours de Yoga en ligne continuent...

Le prochain cours de Prana Vashya Yoga a lieu demain, Samedi 31 à 9H00, via zoom.

Le Prana Vashya Yoga est un yoga dynamique qui développe endurance, force, stabilité et souplesse, de manière équilibrée pour le corps et l’esprit.

En ligne également je privilégie un petit nombre de participants pour garder un regard sur vous et pouvoir adapter la pratique à chacun.

MP pour plus de détails et inscriptions.

02/04/2020

Exploring our inner freedom...

Join our Prana Vashya Yoga sessions each Sunday and Wednesday of April at 17:00 (France’s time).

It is via zoom in small group classes, so I can adapt the practice to each one of you.

Those confinement classes are working on a "give what you feel" base.

Please send me a private message to subscribe and I'll send you the link for joining the sessions.

15/03/2020

🧘🏻‍♀️Cours de Yoga à domicile dans le 06

🧘🏽‍♂️ Private Yoga classes on the French Riviera
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Le Yoga renforce nos défenses immunitaires et nous aide à traverser les épreuves avec sérénité. Si vous souhaitez débuter ou approfondir votre pratique, n’hésitez pas à me contacter.

J’enseigne des styles de Yoga dynamique: Prana Vashya Yoga, Ashtanga et Vinyasa.

Bien évidemment en bon respect des "gestes barrières": hygiène, tapis désinfecté, espace aéré (jusque là rien d'exceptionnel), pas d’ajustement physique mais uniquement par la voix.

Et pour celles et ceux qui tout naturellement s’interrogent: oui cela est permis en période de confinement (confirmé par la préfecture).

Détails en MP

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12/03/2020

Quelle joie de partager la Méthode Ilan Lev avec les artistes du Studio David Rozen à Paris, et de la faire découvrir lors de cette semaine Portes ouvertes.

Un grand merci à tous les participants et à David Rozen dont la pédagogie ouvre un chemin libératoire humainement et artistiquement !

Quelques témoignages des élèves à propos de la Méthode Ilan Lev...

19/01/2020

Donkeysunnydream

Light is in every being... Respect animals for what they are, living creatures. We can live very well without eating them.

Ahimsa - non-violence, is the first principle of the Yamas, the first limb of Yoga. Cultivating non-violent behavior and thoughts towards each being is the foundation of Yoga practice.

“ Upon being harassed by negative thoughts, one should cultivate counteracting thoughts. “Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra II, 33

For exemple, if ever the desire to eat meat arises (such desire coming from the attachment to some pleasurable previous eating meat experiences) one can simply think about the living animal, how he moves, breaths and can communicate with us.
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Remembering Giorgio, super kind and playful, donkey of my hurt.

12/01/2020

The true ignorance is ignoring his own ignorance…

Do you believe that our human thoughts and perceptions naturally correspond to the reality ?

The first step towards knowledge is recognizing our ignorance.

In the yoga tradition, ignorance is our natural state of mind, a state of deep confusion, that identifies ourselves to the physical world and our connection to it.

« Avidya, ignorance makes us take the self, which is joyful, pure and eternal, to be the non-self, which is painful, impure and temporary. » Patanjali Yoga sutras II,5

Ignorance is the first of the five kleshas, which are the obstacles to samadhi, the yogi realization. It is also the fertile ground of the four other kleshas which are: asmita, the sense of ego, raga, attachment, dvesha, aversion and abhiniveshas, clinging to life and fear of the death. Those five kleshas are deeply rooted in the human mind and are the causes of our sufferance.

The Yoga practice aims to eliminate ignorance… The whole Yoga, not just the physical postures, but also the breath practices, the ethical observances towards ourselves and towards the others, the meditation…

If ignorance is eliminated, all the other kleshas will disappear, and so the causes of sufferance.

Then only the Joy remains.

Shall we walk together on this long and joyful path of Yoga ?

Yoga every day at Prana Vashya Yoga Athens - private and small group classes (up to 6 participants).

10/01/2020

Non-self inquiry..
I am not my body
I am not my mind..
I am not my physical appearance
I am not my muscles
I am not my skeleton
I am not my sweat
I am not my inner feelings
I am not my emotions
I am not my tears
I am not my words
I am not my will
I am not my achievements
I am not my creations
I am not my beliefs
I am not my desires
I am not my possessions
I am not my skills
I am not my dreams
I am not my family
I am not my friends
I am not my nationality
I am not my religion
I am not my social media profile
I am not my past
I am not my future
I am not how people perceive me
Nor I am how I perceive myself

Happy lunar eclipse ✨

19/12/2019

How do you live your body ? In which kind of relationship are you with your body ?

Do you live it mainly as a tool to work with ?
As a way to explore the world ?
As a way to express yourself ?
A way to communicate with others ? To entertain them ? To make them laugh ? To seduce them ? To provoke them ? To heal them ? To share your sorrow ? To spread love around you ? To express your love to someone?

As a mean to defend yourself ? To challenge yourself ? To reproduce yourself ? To hide yourself ? To destruct yourself ? To fake ?
To find yourself again ?

As a source of pleasure ? As a source of knowledge ?
Is your body a partner for traveling inward, to a place that is beyond space ?

Is it mainly a painful or a joyful relationship ? Is there clarity or confusion in this relation ? Conflict or harmony ?

Can you live without it ?

Is your body mainly attracted by the external world ? Repulsed by it ?
Or maybe you don’t feel that this way, that there is an external world ? Maybe you live the world as the dilatation of your body, rather than his limitation ?

Maybe all of this is true at different times and at different stages of life ?

Would you like to share other questions with your fingertips ?

18/12/2019

“ My greatest merit - maybe the only one - is to inspire people the desire to do everything they do with joy. The word work is banished in my family. “ Slava Polunin, the creator of the marvelous Slava’s Snow Show, that can awake the playful inner child of the most serious person. ❤️

Let’s practice Yoga with joy, it makes us breath better !

It is not a duty, but a privilege to find a time for ourselves, detached from the attractions of the world.

Practice with joy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t put effort and determination in our practice. It is needed, if we wish to go beyond ourselves. This can be done with the joy to overcome some obstacles. Rather than willing to prove something to ourselves or to anyone else, let’s use our desire to go to a place we’ve never been before. Let’s not try to be perfect, but rather to feel great, to explore ourselves, to play with the same sense of full presence than a child has in his games. And if we fail to perform anything, we’ll go on loving ourselves the same, even better because we tried. So, we never fail.

I love to look at each Asana as a way to celebrate life from a different perspective.

Keep the joy alive ! And when we don’t feel joy, we always can imagine it. And it may come. The celebration must go on…
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Private and small group classes everyday at Prana Vashya Yoga Athens, your space for Yoga in Koukaki.

10/12/2019

Urdhva Kukkutasana is one of the new postures I worked on with my dear teacher Vinay Kumar, during my last stay in Mysore. I needed a few sessions of practice and a few gentle falls back to be able to enter, stay and go out of this posture with ease. As most of the times, it was not a question of strength and flexibility, but mainly a question of trust and body image.

The process of Learning new postures is great in the way that it renews our own body image. We all have in our mind an image of our own body, of how it moves. This image is conceived according to our past experiences, and in return the way we move is patterned according to this body image. Those movement patterns include a particular muscles tonicity, a certain way to align the skeleton, how our different body parts work together, or work independently one from an other.

So, each time we’re exploring new physical shapes, we get the opportunity to renew those patterns, to develop healthier ones, to get more freedom in our body and in our mind.
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08/12/2019

Namaste, here is the new Weekly schedule...
All the classes are limited to 6 participants, so I really can adapt the practice to each one of you. My teaching is inspired by my dear teacher and Yoga master Vinay Kumar from Mysore, by my daily Yoga exploration on and off the mat, by each of my students, and by my experience as an energetic and physical Bodywork Therapist.

The early morning Prana Vashya Yoga 4 weeks program starts the first Monday of the month.

All the classes are suitable for all levels of practice and are taking place in Prana Vashya Yoga Athens, the new space for Yoga in Koukaki.

I offer a free trial class to anyone living in Athens or nearby (except for the 4 weeks program).

To book your spot to a class or to ask me anything you need about the practice and about the details of the classes please send me a message here, on my email joshuagarson2015@gmail.com, or on my cellular 69 96 27 28 73.

24/11/2019

Looking forward to sharing Prana Vashya Yoga with you ! The introduction week is starting tomorrow and we have two spots left. If your inner space is calling you, take this time for you. We’ll be a small group, a really happy way to begin Prana Vashya Yoga.

19/11/2019

Let's dive into our breath with Prana Vashya Yoga practice. During this Week, step by step, you'll be introduced to the Prana Vashya Yoga first series, in a way that suits the total beginners and the more advanced practitionners as well.

Prana Vashya Yoga is a sequenced and breath focused dynamic yoga developed by my dear teacher and Yoga Master Vinay Kumar from Mysore (South India). The two Prana Vashya Yoga series provide strength, balance and flexibility for the body and the mind. Our approach helps the practitioner to recognize his own physical and psychological capacities and to develop them in a positive way. In this process the breath is the key channel.

Every evening from 19:30 to 21:00, Prana Vashya Yoga can become your daily delight.

To provide you the best Prana Vashya Yoga experience, the Introduction Weeks are limited to 6 participants, in a warm new space in Koukaki.

Please contact me to book your spot and I’ll give you all the details. You can either:
- Send me a message here
- Send an email to joshuagarson2015@gmail.com
- Or use my WhatsApp number 00972503081530

For this Introduction Week I offer a special price: 35€

About Joshua Garson
In 2018, After having taught Ashtanga Vinyasa on the French Riviera and in Tel Aviv, Joshua Garson met Vinay Kumar in Mysore. This encounter has been significant. He spent four months in Mysore studying from him and he followed his two months intense teacher training. In September 2019, during his last stay in Mysore, he co-taught for one month the daily classes for local people in the Prana Vashya Yoga Shala. He lastly moved to Athens to spread here this amazing practice.

12/11/2019

10/11/2019

In this community orchard, opening ourselves to the juicy fruits of yoga practice. Thank you to the participants and to the volunteers who reveal the beauty of this place. ❤️

Special thanks to my friend Shmuel Dvir Cohen who made it happen.

@ בוסתן קהילתי יהוד-מונוסון

20/07/2019

Il est où le bonheur ?... Il est là !
Tous radieux après une pratique de Prana Vashya Yoga, à Yam Yoga Antibes... Radieux aussi avant, le Yoga révèle notre vraie nature, heureuse.
Pour votre écoute, votre pratique et votre enthousiasme, de tout cœur merci ❤️🙏🏽