Armindyoga

30/08/2025

Guru-Shishya Parampara: A Sacred Bond💫

The Guru-Shishya Parampara is a beautiful relationship based on trust, love, and learning. It’s not just about imparting knowledge, but about guidance through life’s challenges and growth in both mind and spirit. The Guru (teacher) helps the Shishya (student) navigate the world with wisdom, patience, and care. It’s a sacred bond built on respect, humility, and devotion, where the Guru shares their wisdom and the Shishya opens their heart to learn and evolve.

This tradition reminds us that learning is not just intellectual—it’s deeply personal. It’s about becoming better versions of ourselves, growing in wisdom, compassion, and peace.

As the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali say, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears,” signaling that growth happens when we’re open to receiving guidance.

Similarly, in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says, “Approach a wise teacher with humility, inquire from them, and serve them. They can guide you because they’ve seen the truth.”

The Guru is there to show us the way, but we must be ready to walk the path with an open heart.

Thank you to all the gurus that have come to this world.

25/08/2025

🌿 You're Invited: Healing Hearts Retreat – A Journey Back to You 🌿

Ready to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself?

Join us for the “Healing Hearts Retreat”, a soul-nourishing experience designed to help you release, restore, and realign with your truest self. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, burnout, or simply need space to “be”, this retreat offers the support, tools, and sacred space to guide your transformation.

✨ What to Expect:

🌺Guided meditations & heart-healing workshops
🕉️Restorative yoga & breathwork
🫂Community connection & emotional release
🌄Quiet time for reflection in a beautiful, nurturing setting
🏊‍♂️ swim dip in a crystal clear water, Lake is 5min walk

📆 4 - 8th Oc 2025
📍 Serra da Estrela (star mountain) Portugal
🎟️ DM
or
https://www.bookyogaretreats.com/share/91H1Qn4MNQ/5-days-yoga-retreat-in-portugal

Your heart deserves this. You deserve this. 💗
Come as you are. Leave renewed.

25/08/2025

🌿 You're Invited: Healing Hearts Retreat – A Journey Back to You 🌿

Ready to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself?

Join us for the “Healing Hearts Retreat”, a soul-nourishing experience designed to help you release, restore, and realign with your truest self. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, burnout, or simply need space to “be”, this retreat offers the support, tools, and sacred space to guide your transformation.

✨ What to Expect:

🌺Guided meditations & heart-healing workshops
🕉️Restorative yoga & breathwork
🫂Community connection & emotional release
🌄Quiet time for reflection in a beautiful, nurturing setting
🏊‍♂️ swim dip in a crystal clear water, Lake is 5min walk

📆 4 - 8th Oc 2025
📍 Serra da Estrela (star mountain) Portugal
🎟️ DM
or
https://www.bookyogaretreats.com/share/91H1Qn4MNQ/5-days-yoga-retreat-in-portugal

Your heart deserves this. You deserve this. 💗
Come as you are. Leave renewed.

Join Armindyoga for a transformative heart-centered yoga retreat designed to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom, heal emotional blockages, and open

10/07/2025

🕉️ **Guru Purnima** 🕉️
Today, I bow in deep reverence to the Guru — the remover of darkness, the one who points us back to the light within.

On this sacred day, I honor the luminous beings who have guided my path — each a thread in the living tapestry of yoga:

🌿 Krishnamacharya – the fountainhead of modern yoga.
🌿 Iyengar – who revealed alignment as prayer.
🌿 Pattabhi Jois – who ignited the fire of disciplined practice.
🌿 Desikachar – who made yoga personal and devotional.
🌿 Swami Sivananda – whose life was pure service.
🌿 Yogananda – who awakened souls to their eternal truth.
🌿 Indra Devi – who brought grace and inclusivity to the West.
🌿 Natasha Nandini – whose *Siva dance* awakens the body as temple, breath as mantra, and movement as offering.
🌿 Stewart Gilchrist – a fierce voice for love, justice, and sacred rebellion.
🌿 David Life & Sharon Gannon – who wove activism, devotion, and sound into asana.

To all my teachers, seen and unseen — thank you.
You’ve shaped how I move, how I serve, how I love.

May we always recognize the Guru — in a person, a breath, a moment of stillness.

🪔 Forever a student.
Happy Guru Purnima 🙏🏼

14/03/2025

My Healing Hearts program is almost there! It will be more than just a practice—it’s a journey of reconnecting with who we truly are, letting go of the burdens we carry, and finding peace in the stillness of our hearts. Through each breath, each stretch, and each moment of quiet reflection, we create space for healing, growth, and renewal.

Healing Hearts program invites you to show up for yourself, to breathe deeply, and to remember that your well-being matters.

What are you waiting for to sign up on my program? SPECIAL PRICE UNTIL SUNDAY 16TH MARCH.

Please go to the link on my BIO and fill the forms to secure your spot. :)

19/02/2025

Free Online Yoga Practice - 22 Feb 2025 10:30am GMT time

Join us for a FREE Online Yoga Session focused on
**Chest Openers**
**Inhale Practices** and
**Conscious Awareness** of the powerful benefits yoga offers to both body and mind.

In this class, you will:
Open the Chest- Release tension and create more space in the chest and heart area for deeper, more nourishing breaths.

Inhale Practice- Learn breathwork techniques that help center the mind and energize the body.

Conscious Awareness - Cultivate mindfulness throughout the practice, enhancing the connection between body, breath, and mind.

Mind-Body Harmony- Experience the profound
benefits of yoga, boosting physical health and mental clarity.

This class is open to all levels, whether you are new to yoga or have a regular practice.

Register

https://chat.whatsapp.com/Di1jN9OPVKX3Hs3EsoDRNC

Looking forward to flowing with you on the mat!

10/02/2025

I'm not one to share feedback, but today I felt I needed to. ❤️

Thank you to everyone who shares their time with me. You are the reason for all of this. 🧘‍♀️✨

💬 Have you tried a class with me? Share in the comments how yoga has transformed your life!
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Não sou muito de partilhar feedback, mas hoje senti que precisava. ❤️

Obrigada a cada um que partilha o seu tempo comigo. Vocês são a razão de tudo isto. 🧘‍♀️✨

💬 Já experimentaste uma aula comigo? Partilha nos comentários como o yoga tem transformado a tua vida!

31/01/2025

Calm is not a place, it is a state of mind. 🧘‍♀️✨

Yoga teaches us that true calm is not outside of us, but within. It is a state that we build with each conscious breath, each intentional movement and each moment of presence.

💖 Why practice yoga?
- To find clarity in the midst of chaos.
- To create balance where there is imbalance.
- To cultivate peace in a world full of distractions.

Today, give yourself the gift of stopping, breathing and connecting with yourself. Yoga is the path to your state of calm and inner harmony.

How can you practice calm in your daily life? Let's inspire each other! ✨🙏

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A calma não é um lugar, é um estado de espírito. 🧘‍♀️✨

O yoga ensina-nos que a verdadeira calma não está fora de nós, mas sim dentro. É um estado que construímos com cada respiração consciente, cada movimento intencional e cada momento de presença.

💖 Por que praticar yoga?
- Para encontrar clareza no meio do caos.
- Para criar equilíbrio onde há desequilíbrio.
- Para cultivar paz num mundo cheio de distrações.

Hoje, dá-te o presente de parar, respirar e conectar-te contigo mesmo. O yoga é o caminho para o teu estado de calma e harmonia interior.

Como praticas a tua calma no dia a dia? Vamos inspirar-nos mutuamente! ✨🙏

20/01/2025

Sometimes all we need is music and a smile to start our practice with love 💕

17/01/2025

✨ Connection through movement and stretching ✨

In the image, I am practicing the Upavistha Konasana (Seated Wide Angle Pose), a yoga pose that brings countless benefits to the body and mind:

🧘‍♀️ Physical benefits:
- Promotes a deep stretching of the legs, back and hips.
- Helps to increase the flexibility of the inner thigh muscles and pelvic region.
- Improves circulation and promotes greater body openness.

💖 Emotional and mental benefits:
- Helps to cultivate patience, as the position requires a moment of pause and surrender.
- Brings a sense of calm by connecting the breath with the body.
- Allows us to be present in the here and now, relieving tension accumulated in the body and mind.

Respect your body and breathe deeply with each stretch – the transformation happens gradually. 🌿

Have you tried this pose? How did you feel? 🙏✨
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✨ Conexão através do movimento e do alongamento ✨

Na imagem, estou a praticar a postura Upavistha Konasana (Postura Sentada em Ângulo Aberto), uma pose de yoga que traz inúmeros benefícios para o corpo e a mente:

🧘‍♀️ Benefícios físicos:
- Promove um profundo alongamento das pernas, costas e quadris.
- Ajuda a aumentar a flexibilidade dos músculos internos das coxas e da região pélvica.
- Melhora a circulação e promove uma maior abertura corporal.

💖 Benefícios emocionais e mentais:
- Ajuda a cultivar a paciência, já que a posição requer um momento de pausa e entrega.
- Traz uma sensação de calma ao conectar a respiração com o corpo.
- Permite-nos estar presentes no aqui e agora, aliviando tensões acumuladas no corpo e na mente.

Respeita o teu corpo e respira profundamente em cada alongamento – a transformação acontece aos poucos. 🌿
Já experimentaste esta postura? Como te sentiste? 🙏✨

12/01/2025

Hello everyone.
If you are looking or thinking on taking yoga classes
Come and try mine.
In English and Portuguese yoga classes
More info please Dm
💫🙏💫

31/12/2024

✨ Sankalpa: The Art of Setting Intentions ✨

Sankalpa is a profound practice that helps us align our thoughts, words, and actions with our purpose. It’s not just about making resolutions, but about creating an inner commitment to our truth.

As we prepare for 2025, I invite you to reflect on your intentions for the new year. Ask yourself:
- What do I want to manifest?
- What direction do I want to take on my journey?

💡 How to Create Your Sankalpa
Find a moment of silence and connect with your heart.
Ask yourself: “What really matters to me?”
Write your intentions in a short, positive sentence, such as:
“I live with courage and love.”
“I care for my well-being with dedication.”

Repeat your Sankalpa daily, visualizing it already accomplished.

May this beginning of the year be a gateway to clarity, inspiration and purpose in your life. 🌱

Share with me, what will be your Sankalpa for 2025? Let's co-create an incredible year together.

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✨ Sankalpa: A Arte de Definir Intenções ✨

O Sankalpa é uma prática profunda que nos ajuda a alinhar os nossos pensamentos, palavras e ações com o nosso propósito. Não se trata apenas de fazer resoluções, mas de criar um compromisso interno com a nossa verdade.

Enquanto nos preparamos para 2025, convido-te a refletir sobre as tuas intenções para o novo ano. Pergunta-te a ti mesmo:
- O que quero manifestar?
- Qual a direção que desejo dar na minha jornada?

💡 Como Criar o teu Sankalpa
Encontra um momento de silêncio e conecta-te com o teu coração.
Pergunta-te: "O que realmente importa para mim?"
Escreve as tuas intenções numa frase curta e positiva, como:
"Eu vivo com coragem e amor."
"Eu cuido do meu bem-estar com dedicação."

Repete o teu Sankalpa diariamente, visualizando-o já realizado.

Que este início de ano seja um portal para a clareza, inspiração e propósito na tua vida. 🌱

Partilha comigo, qual será o teu Sankalpa para 2025? Vamos co-criar um ano incrível juntos.