Andreea Aradits Ashtanga Yoga

17/11/2024

02/08/2024

2 upcoming practice sessions plus details in workshoping sessions next Thursdays. 🧘🏼☀️

8 August & 15 August

If you are in Bucharest, join if you can.

We will be going over some aspects in depth and in detail, with the intention to help in your practices.

Beautiful location, looking forward to giving and receiving good vibes only! 🙏🏻🧘🏼😍

Sending love,
Andreea 🥰❤️

05/07/2024

Ashtanga yoga led classes in Bucharest

* July 6th 8:00 - 9:30 am
* July 27th 8:00 - 9:30 am
* August 3rd 8:00 - 9:30 am
* August 10th 8:00 - 9:30 am
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Come practice. Hope to see you on the mat.
Love,
Andreea ❤️ 🧘🏼💫

28/06/2024

Niciodată nu am simtit groaza și panica pe care le simțim de câteva zile, culminând ieri și azi, când vedem că orice am scrie, orice am arăta, oricât de frumoase ar fi imaginile sau mesajele, ele nu ajung la inimile a suficient de mulți oameni, încât să acoperim financiar nevoia de bază a animăluțelor, fânul lor vital. 😔

Niciodată nu am ajuns la un nivel atât de jos cu speranța, niciodată nu s-a întâmplat ca, după atâtea apeluri disperate, să nu se strângă toată suma de care animăluțele aveau nevoie, pentru a le aduce rapid fân. Mereu scriam, după o postare sau două disperate, că am reușit. Acum nu am reușit, după atâtea postări 😢.

400 RON ne despart de fânul lor, de hrana lor, de viața lor. Suntem la ultimii, ultimii baloți și e absolut sinistru sentimentul să rămâi, pe munte, cu ultimii baloți, să vezi cm se duc, cu rapiditate, și orice ai arăta pe social media, oricât de frumoase ar fi imaginile și acești copii extraordinari, să atingă doar câteva inimi, în mare parte cam aceleași inimi care ne sprijină mereu. 😞

Avem atâtea alte cheltuieli, iar azi nu ne așteptam - înaintea unui weekend în care în general donațiile sunt la pământ și stăm cu teamă mereu - să nu reușim, să nu strângem toți bănuții pentru fânul fără de care animăluțele ierbivore NU POT TRĂI 😢.

Mulțumim enorm, enorm tuturor celor care sprijină acest sanctuar, o dată pe lună sau de mai multe ori, prin orice modalitate posibilă, printr-o donație sau o distribuire! Sunteți OAMENI absolut extraordinari în această lume șocant de indiferentă și apatică și sperăm, din tot sufletul, cu ultimele licăriri de speranță, ca gestul sau gesturile voastre altruiste să inspire mai mulți oameni, să putem trece împreună peste aceste zile și, de fapt, această vară atât de grele. 🙏

În imagine, Nicusor împreună cu frumosul Alireza, primul vițeluș mascul al sanctuarului, salvat în urmă cu peste 3 ani de la tăiere, pe când era încă bebeluș. Niciun tăuraș nu trăiește atâția ani în agricultura animală, NICIUNUL 😢. Motiv suficient - de-ar fi doar acesta - să fie ajutat să trăiască ani mulți, sănătoși, liniștiți și fericiți.

Vă implorăm, avem fânul de adus de urgență, avem lucerna, avem paiele pentru așternut, avem mâncarea porcușorilor și a cățeilor de asigurat mereu. Orice mic sprijin, orice minusculă donație sau distribuire înseamnă TOTUL pentru acești îngerași inocenți! Fiți alături de ei! 🙏

Paypal: alexandrunicusorpopa@gmail.com

Pentru donații prin Revolut, vă rugăm să folosiți revtagul sau numărul de telefon 0734902430

Transfer bancar:

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Sprijiniți-ne și pe Patreon, vă rugăm mult, printr-o donație recurentă/lunară minusculă, chiar și de 1 dolar sau 2: https://www.patreon.com/SpiritAnimalsSanctuary

© andreea balaurea

15/05/2024

Fear resides in the body and mind.

How to conquer fear? Face it every day.
How to face it? Practice. 🧘🏼☺️ Show up and do your best.

Practice to the limits of your current abilities. Keep trying, don’t give up, find the strength within you, let it surface. You will be surprised to see courage shows up in practice and stays with you throughout the day.

One more reason to practice: to be able to conquer fear, laziness, procrastination, to go beyond the comfort zone and find out what we are capable of in this life time.

Stay consistent, put sincere effort in your practice and let go of attachments to the outcome of asanas and the external parts of the practice. They are the means, not the destination. The real treasure is the work we do inside, how this practice helps us find our true potential.

Be brave and just show up. Do your best.

Sharing today’s thoughts in practice. ☺️🙏🏻🧘🏼
Have a great day!
Lots of love,
Andreea ❤️🙏🏻☀️

Grateful for 📸 Vishwas Bharadwaj 🙏🏻
Mysore 2023

30/04/2024

Corfu retreat is full now 😍🙏🏻 BUT…

If you love the sea, we have a long weekend booked in Vama Veche, Romania! 🇷🇴

18-21 July, we’ll be hosted by a lovely girl who pours her heart and soul into this place, just like we do in our practice. ❤️☀️🥰🧘🏼✨

Morning yoga, afternoon sunbathing (pool or seaside - walking distance to the beach), lots of rest, (early) dinner and lots of sleep.

Message me to book your spot and get an early bird price!

See you on the mat and…
Ahoy Black Sea, here we come! 😎⛱️🌊

Love,
Andreea ❤️

28/04/2024

Repost

“Someone will always be able to do it better than you,” was a daily, humbling reminder that struck me to my core while studying in Mysore. During my first couple of trips, I practiced in the 4am early morning group. By the time I rolled my mat out, Sharath was already halfway through his practice. As I awkwardly labored through the first half of the primary series, directly in front of me, Sharath was floating through the postures of the advanced series. And without fail, every day like clockwork, I’d be in navasana as I watched Sharath catching his thighs in backbends. We were both struggling, just on different levels in our development of postures. One day it dawned on me that, regardless of how advanced the practice might become, it’s always the challenge and the potential growth it offers that are important. So, whether you’re finding that challenge in learning your first sun salutation or putting your legs behind your head, the important part is how you handle yourself within that space. The postures are only a means and never the end result.”
❤️🙏🏻

15/04/2024

India is a mix of everything. But more importantly, it is a place to find peace. No matter our life goals, no matter where we are in the world, we are all looking for peace.
And the funny thing is that amidst all the chaos that India is well known for, here you find peace. In all the craziness. Things are simple here and willingly or not, you also become reduced to being simple. Simple tastes, simple clothes, almost no footwear, lose the sunglasses, no competition, no heaviness, just simple living.

Yoga is not a common practice amongst Indians, as one might believe. Most people are not interested or aware of its benefits. But it is the place where you can practice it the best. There is silence inside and noise only outside.

I lived here for 15 months now, on and off in the past 2 years. I am learning many things, still adapting to some but I have a weird feeling of belonging. I’ve had it from the beginning. There is only one other place in this world where I have the same feeling.

I live in a very simple, small room with a beautiful and loving (used-to-be) street-dog that I love dearly, I practice, I work, I cook, I feed the animals in the neighborhood, I do my best. And I am at peace.

I read this quote that home is the place where you don’t feel you want to run away from. I guess it is.

Thank you for the photos, Toni! 🙏🏻💙dias_

17/02/2024

Lessons we learn along the way 🙏🏻🧘🏼

Aiming for the final expression of the asana at all costs is often a price too high to pay.

Ashtanga yoga is a life-long journey. We need this body to walk it through to the end. If we push and forcefully get into an asana faster then it is meant to come with consistent work, consequences are often too big and they last for too long, preventing us from actually working on our struggle asanas with love, kind attention and full hearted dedication. This way our body will be prepared to sustain the asana in the daily practice.

We came into this life in this particular body, we need to learn to navigate it with kindness and awareness, to make it to the end in one piece and with peace of mind.

Othewise, we push for one more step forward and we end up taking three steps back.

The practice is showing where work needs to be done. When pain shows up, it is not only a call to step back, it is a call to go slow and pay more attention, see where it is coming from. And keep going with kindness.

My Eka Pada is getting a tiny bit better after one year, but it is far from being complete. I am working on it and ackgnowledging the small, small progress (and sometimes regress) along the way. It takes time, consistency and dedication. And love.☺️🙏🏻💙

Not my greatest Eka Pada but a beautiful photo by
📸 🙏🏻

01/01/2024

What is the purpose of practice? Why do you do it?

For me it is mental clarity. I see things better, my mind is calm, still and I can hear my inner thoughts clearly. It is said that we all posess wisdom within, our mind is just too agitated and too “on top of things” so we are not able to hear it, to tap into it.

With practice, mind becomes concentrated on one point and things around slowly start to clear.

Whenever I have something on my mind, I work on it during my next practice. By connecting to the breath and releasing the mind in this moving meditation that is Ashtanga yoga, the solution becomes self evident. Sometimes in one practice, sometimes it takes more practices and more days, but it always comes.

Otherwise we get too engrossed with the outer world and it becomes so challenging to settle, to come to a still point and in that state, we can’t really see anything clearly.

I am in India for a while now but if you want to practice, I am there for you online almost every day. Please see the schedule and feel free to join. There’s never a better time to start then now. ❤️
Go easy and stay consistent.

Have a wonderful year ahead! ✨⭐️
Love,
Andreea 🥰🙏🏻

📸 .dias_

12/12/2023

“The teacher is there to give you reassurance that you are on the right path, but the real inner teacher is in the practice itself.
For deeper understanding to arise, the mind must be transformed.”

Ashtanga Yoga, ❤️
a traditional practice

📸 .dias_ 🙏🏻💙

25/11/2023

One more small, one more season with Guruji 🙏🏻❤️

Thank you for your patience and guidance, Guruji! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you for keeping everything running perfectly! 🙏🏻💙

Thank you Ashtanga community! You are my family and inspiration. 🥰🧘🏼

Thank you to my friends and family who supported me on my journey! I hold you very dear in my heart. 🥰❤️

Love and gratitude,
Andreea ☀️