09/10/2021
🔸Ashtanga Yoga introductory
🔸Ashtanga Yoga Athens East
🔸Saturday 16.10, 17.30 - 19.30
Register via email at info@ashtangayogaathens.com
The basic elements of this ancient system will be practiced during a 2-hours workshop, setting a strong foundation of the Ashtanga Practice.
Aris, founder & lead Teacher of Ashtanga Yoga Athens, studied next to Tim Miller as well as Nancy Gillgof and David Garrigues, senior teachers who are holding the lineage of the Ashtanga method as taught by Shri K. Pattabhi Jois.
Authorized E-RYT 500, CYT 500 by Yoga Alliance, Level 2 Nadi Shodana Pranayama by Manju P. Jois.
Following the teaching of such teachers, he believes and teaches the traditional method where each student has each own unique potential and personality and has to be taught individually.Yoga is a holistic method and “one for all recipe”can not be applied.
Being faithful to the tradition of the Ashtanga yoga method and the eight limbs, he emphasises the internal part of the practice which starts with the pranayama limb.
He teaches the original Pranayama method of Ashtanga and incorporates it inevery day practice.
Being a long time practitioner of meditation (zazen) he also emphasises its importance in the practice.He is the first teacher in Greece who introduced Zazen
meditation sitting in an Ashtanga Shala.Over the years he has attended numerous sesshin (intence meditation seminars) and he has also hosted sesshins in his shala under the guidance of zen master Shokan.
Aris belongs to an elite “family”, with very few members around the world, that practice and lead Misogi Harai “purification through breathing”.
He holds the 2nd degree in Reiki.
For 15 years he has been practicing Aikido (Birankai International) with Jenny Flower
sensei in the Athens Aikido Dojo. He has been an Uchideshi (live in student) in San Diego Aikido Dojo under the guidance of T.K Chiba Sensei.
Over a decade Aris has been offering retreats, workshops and Teachers-trainings sharing his knowledge and experience.
