Welcome to Yoga International!

A place where you can escape from a stressful life, to
recharge, rejuvenate, and balance your system

International Yoga Experience

Yoga International is a joyful, accessible and vibrant blend of many styles and traditions, a place where students from all nations can come together to participate in the Yoga experience. Warmth and simplicity are the keys to our approach to Yoga practice.

Benefits of Yoga Practice

Many people believe that Yoga is some kind of religious cult or philosophical system. Yoga, however, is something else. The goal of Yoga is the ability to live in full harmony with yourself and your surroundings. Yoga is the science of self-realization and self-perfection; it seeks to bring out the best in every person, the joy that is at the core of every being.

There are a lot of reasons to start practicing Yoga:

  • Some people use Yoga as a method for staying in good physical shape-a way to keep their bodies flexible and good-looking.
  • Others look for relief from illness, aches, and pains.
  • Recent medical studies demonstrate that the systematic practice of Savasana, the Yogic position of relaxation, lowers blood pressure.
  • Systematic practice of asanas (yoga postures) and pranayama (breathing exercises) consistently alleviates exhaustion and brings relief of various ailments such as arthritis, arteriosclerosis, varicose veins, heart disease, and headaches.

    Whatever motivation you have for beginning a Yoga practice, the benefits of your experience will be much greater than those listed above. Yoga can be simply an instrument (e.g., to lose weight, or to stop smoking). Or it can be something much greater.

    Let's not be afraid to experience Yoga. Yoga demands very little from us, but what it gives in return is immeasurable.

    Methods

    At the core of Yoga International are Hatha Yoga and Tantra Yoga, but Yoga International draws on several styles:

  • The flowing Viniyoga style, where great attention is given to the coordination of breath and movement. 'Breath is life!' Attention to the breath takes precedence over a rigid adherence to form. Viniyoga is a system advocated by Professor Krishnamacharya and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar.

  • The Iyengar method, which encourages a precise understanding of one's physical alignment as a means of unveiling one's inherent connection with all things. The Iyengar method encourages the use of props, such as blocks, straps, and cushions, for beginners and individuals with physical impediments.

  • The Sivananda tradition, which simplifies the broad Yoga heritage to five basic rules which are easily incorporated into daily life, ensuring radiant health and longevity: correct relaxation, correct breathing, correct exercise, correct diet, and positive thought and meditation.

  • Ayurveda, the Science of Longevity, the ancient holistic Indian healing art, has also been a great inspiration for Yoga International. Ayurveda is the yoga of rebalancing your current contributions to your body's unique and harmonious constitution. Kasia studied Ayurveda in New York under Dr. Scott Gerson.

    Hatha and Tantra Yoga

    Hatha Yoga is not an inert system of knowledge and instructions. It is kept alive by the living yogis and yoginis who transmit their knowledge and wisdom directly to their students (this is called shakti). In this sense Yoga International is a continuing expression of the Yoga tradition, as it is the fruit of Kasia's experience on the path of Yoga.

    Tantra Yoga involves the expansion of one's self to the fullest, in order to become liberated from limits and boundaries.

    "Just as a drop of sea water
    contains all of the qualities of the ocean,
    so too does a human being contain within it
    all of the mysteries and powers of the universe."
    Yogiraj Alan Finger

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