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Hello, I'm Alberto
Practicing Yoga since 2002
I started practicing Yoga in a gym while at the university and was impressed by the instructor, an older woman, who irradiated peace and agility. Whatever she had, I wanted to have, so I got more and more into yoga. I have been practicing with many teachers and several styles before ultimately ashtanga got me.
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This path of discovery and learning yoga and its principles have shaped who I am. Since over 5 years I practice daily and committed to the ashtanga yoga philosophy. Yoga has given me clarity of mind, a fundamental joy of living and has provided a deeper sense of purpose to my life. I have unconsciously tried several lifestyles and roles in my twenties and early thirties: the urban, the gay, the alternative, the busy business man etc. and I found that none of them allowed to express myself fully and in none of those I would feel fulfilled. The Yoga lifestyle does, and that is what I want you to test in the this Yoga Lifestyle retreat experience designed for gay men.
Yoga Trainings
I'm convinced no Yoga Teacher Training Course makes you a good Yoga teacher, but I have done a couple.
2016
200 hours Yoga Teacher Training with Vijay Amar in Goa, India focus on Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
2018
200 hours teacher training with Balu Thevar, Goa, India
Focus on Ashtanga adjustments and Sanskrit counting
What I do
Physical work
Ashtanga Vinyasa is a demanding physical practice designed by Pattabi Jois for 15 year old boys. Since then it has been adapted and become extremely popular. I am myself a person with physical limitations but still I enjoy the practice, I focus more on the flow, the breathing and the concentration than on "acrobatic" postures. The practice is meant to keep our body healthy and brings flexibility to the body and the mind.
Mind work
Ashtanga Vinyasa is a moving meditation (dhyana) that combines physical work (asana), breathing (pranayama), control of the outer senses (pratyahara) and concentration (dharana). These are 5 of the 8 limbs of Ashtanga yoga as explained in the Yoga Sutras. The other three being the Yamas, Niyamas and Samadhi.
The Yamas and Niyamas give fundamental values and personal disciplines that when followed sustain the practice. They are the bases for the yoga lifestyle. Samadhi is the state of peace and blissfulness that yoga brings into your life.
I don't believe in a sequential approach to these limbs in which you focus in the physical work first; instead by integrating all of them in your lifestyle you can enjoy the benefits of yoga even with a limited (but continued) physical practice.
Lifestyle
Ashtanga yoga develops committed and happy people. You will recognize an ashtangui for his discipline and a good ashtangui for the joy for life he irradiates in all his actions. By applying the 8 limbs of yoga you build a lifestyle that is healthy and integrates your body and mind to express yourself fully without biases and external pre-conditioning elements.