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I Want You To Know

I want you to understand something! Please take a minute for this post.

I would like the world to know that yoga is not stretching.

You use your body while practicing yogic postures, so it's only natural that you become flexible. But that is not what yoga is.

In yoga, you practice certain postures, or asanas. Why do you think these certain ones were chosen? Or how do you think they were arrived to? Why these asanas and not others?

These asanas, or postures, are not just body positions to stretch your hamstrings or your quads. These are scientific ways to evolve yourself as a human being. While Facebook posts show dogs and cats holding what we think are asanas, they are not. These animals are just doing the things that their bodies are capable of doing.

To put your body into an asana is important, because this is your chance to be better, to feel better, and do better.

And who teaches you how to put your body into an asana is just as important.

Let's talk surgery.

There are millions of surgeons out there, all kinds: heart, kidney, stomach, hips, ankles. For every body part, there is a surgeon. And surgery is a science that has a whole body of research and knowledge behind it. There are bad ones, good ones and great ones. When choosing which surgeon to go to, you look at his medical training, you look at his experience, and your look at his skill.

This is not different with yoga. Yoga is also a science. An inner science, And who shows you how, when, why, what to do with your own body, with your own mind is extremely important. If done incorrectly, well-being will not come. If done correctly, you can fly high.

This is what we offer and this is what we are proud of. We are trained in classical Hatha Yoga in an intensive setting, living and breathing it 24 hours for nearly 6 months, looking at every detail and most importantly, experiencing everything ourselves.

We do not have book knowledge. We have a living experience. We value it more than anything, because it has and continues to transform who and how we are.

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