Svaha Yoga

Is this the stairs to a new life?
https://svahayoga.com/event/pre-ttc-70-hours-one-month-intensive-sadhana-series/

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them but you know they are always there. Love you. Thank you for being.

Time to come down, calm down and get our feet back on the ground. See you for some detox in the studio.

Coming Thursday Will be teaching a free information and short yoga therapy session. Please check the events page either here or on our website. Oh and don’t forget the Yoga nidra training in the studio in Amsterdam starts early May. Kamini Desai, PhD

Who’s afraid of ? We’re not We are totally proud to have Sivananda classes taught by Susan from . So do yourself a favor and check out the bliss filled Saturday morning class in the DownTown Shala. You can book this class now via the mind-body system. Use your membership or 10 class card or pay for a single class. It is worth the investment. https://svahayoga.com/teacher/susan/

We are super excited that Kamini Desai is able to come over to Amsterdam again to teach the Yoga Nidra Immersion and Certification at our studio in Amsterdam in May. Are you interested in learning more about this ancient practice of Yoga Nidra? Retreat, Renew and Rebalance yourself by joining this wonderful, inspiring Immersion & Certification.

https://svahayoga.com/event/live-yoga-nidra-i-immersion-certification/

The Sivananda class will be open for all to join. Starting next Saturday 1030 at downtown. Reservation please via mind-body. 

Check out our new sweetheart Merdan.

Tuesdays at 10 AM you can get your butt whooped by Luca in the Jordaan studio.

Whoop here it is, the first of many new classes .

We changed some of the class timings and levels and also added new classes, starting Monday. Please check the web site so you won’t be surprised.

Guess you don’t wanna miss out on this one

From April 1 we need to raise the investment in eternal bliss.

💙💛KUNDALINI FULL MOON MEDITATION FOR UKRAINE 💛💙 Friday 18th March 19.00- 20.00 Downtown studio Begijnensteeg 1 Donation based and all donations go to Ukrainian refugees in Amsterdam Sign up here https://svahayoga.com/classes/ Or just show up .. everybody's welcome 🤗 #🇺🇦

💙💛KUNDALINI FULL MOON MEDITATION FOR UKRAINE 💛💙

Friday 18th March
19.00- 20.00

Downtown studio
Begijnensteeg 1

Donation based and all donations go to Ukrainian refugees in Amsterdam

Sign up here https://svahayoga.com/classes/
Or just show up .. everybody's welcome 🤗




#🇺🇦

Please feel welcome to join the free loving kindness meditation sessions for world peace. Tuesday 8:45 PM downtown Thursday 8:30 PM downtown. Saturday 7:45 PM Jordaan.

Nataraja de Dansende Shiva

Wat heeft Nataraja eigenlijk te maken met Karma en Dharma?!

In vrijwel alle Yoga scholen vind je wel ergens een afbeelding van Nataraja. In deze afbeelding vind je heel veel symbolisme en het heeft allemaal te maken met Yoga en dus met het/jouw/ons leven.

Twee van die andere concepten van Yoga waar je vaak over hoort zijn Karma en Dharma.

Karma betekent niet meer dan

Nataraja de Dansende Shiva Wat heeft Nataraja eigenlijk te maken met Karma en Dharma?! * Note: (English translation coming soon.) In vrijwel alle Yoga scholen vind je wel ergens een afbeelding van Nataraja. In deze afbeelding...

Free meditation sessions with Patrick every Saturday night 7:45 PM till 8:15 PM at the Jordaan studio.

Destruction – Annihilation or Emancipation?

Globally, we have reached a moment in which it is instructive to talk about Shiva.
More than ever, it seems we are falling apart. It’s on the news, on Facebook, on the front page of the paper. Refugees shut out of fortress Europe, freezing to death in the cold. The citizens of Aleppo left alone while their city burns. Brexit. The rise of racist groups to political power under the guise of the ‘alt-right’. Muslims shot and killed while praying in their mosques. Borders closing, walls dividing, human rights deteriorating, truth dissolving. The destruction is everywhere.

And destruction is Shiva’s business. Hindu mythology understands Shiva as the destroyer, joining Brahma (who creates) and Vishnu (who sustains). Together the triad enacts the cycle of creation, sustenance and destruction which repeats infinitely, from the microcosm (the cycle of birth, life, and death experienced by even the smallest organism), to the macrocosm (the incomprehensibly long cycles of existence and destruction, of which our current universe is only one example). Shiva demonstrates that destruction is the inevitable consequence of, and precursor to, creation.

Destruction – Annihilation or Emancipation? Globally, we have reached a moment in which it is instructive to talk about Shiva. More than ever, it seems we are falling apart. It’s on the news, on Facebook, on the front page of the paper....

Yoga and Repair
There are so many ordinary moments of repair all around us.*
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There are small actions, like the way my grandmother would mend socks for the family, or the time I re-stitched the worn seams on my brother’s beloved stuffed bear. And there are also bigger actions, like the work of repairing a relationship after a breach of trust, or repairing our own hearts after a break, or repairing muscle tissue following injury.
What does it mean to repair?
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These examples suggest that repair is a work of care, in the sense that it ‘cares for’ what is being repaired and in the sense that one has to ‘take care’, or ‘be careful’ in making a repair. Literally or metaphorically, repair is thus a work of attentiveness, requiring patience and even love. Repairing, in these examples, is not ‘fixing’ what is ‘broken’. Rather, repair is caring for something (a stuffed bear, a heart) as it moves through the world, so that it can continue to do so, so that it goes on.
In this sense, as an exercise of care, patience, love and attentiveness, repair isn’t an activity so much as it is a practice. In fact, yoga practices might constitute a kind of repair.
Is yoga a kind of repair?
In my experience yoga practices can certainly feel like repair. It’s true that there are times I arrive at the mat feeling strong and whole, in body and spirit. But there are also times when I arrive at the mat feeling depleted, or worn down, or a bit bruised. There are even times when I arrive at the mat feeling broken. But over time, breathing, sitting, moving, paying attention, caring, these simple practices, as mundane and daily as mending a sock, enact a kind of repair to the body, the mind, the heart.
Why repair?
Of course repair is not an instantaneous, magical cure all: not for a worn out sock and not for a worn out spirit. Mending a sock may be mundane but it is a skill that takes time and dedication to learn. Similarly, nothing is as mundane as sitting still, but any practitioner knows how much time and dedication this method of repair takes to learn. Furthermore, a mended sock still shows it seams; it isn’t a new sock. A mended body or a mended heart is similarly shaped by its past and marked by the act of healing. Repair isn’t an instant fix, and it doesn’t magically erase the traces of being in the world. But the mending is what allows something, or us, to go on.
Stuffed bears who are loved will have their seams split, and to repair them is to allow them to go on and continue to be loved. People who love will have their hearts broken, and to repair them is to allow them to continue to love. Yoga practices, like any act of care practiced with attention and love, can make these repairs.
*This consideration of repair is inspired by the work of Eve Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant.
Alex Niemeijer-Brown Lecturer/Teacher Svaha Yoga Amsterdam.

Whatever the schedule states Hila will be teaching tomorrow at 10:00 in Jordaan. Wanna join the master of cheer.

Maak kennis met Hila, Vinyasa Yoga docent Elke maand introduceren we je aan 1 van onze Svaha Yoga docenten. Deze maand: Hila Favoriete houding: Paschimottanasana Waarom is dit je favoriete houding? Ik vind het een mooi symbool van...

Please meet .lc Luca is teaching a new class. Friday 16:00-17:00 at Jordaan studio. Luca was born in the Italian Alps in 1989. Since I was a child I was fascinated by the endless possibilities of the body&mind and how it is all reflected in nature. From fine arts I discovered dance to be the main tool of expression and communication. Around 2010 dancing became my profession, and since then I had the pleasure to work with several choreographers and performing world wide. Yoga found me in one of the most challenging moments of my dance-career and showed me the path of simplicity, interconnectivity and inner-wisdom.
And so...NOW I let the playful child, the inner-teacher, lead the way through breath and lightness

Dear yogis and friends it has been a long time since we were able to teach the one month intensive 70 hour teacher training. We have just a few spots left so if you were thinking about getting the information or signing up don’t wait too long we start the first weekend in March. Oh, and the Peace brother in the image is Luca, he teaches Fridays 16:00 in Jordaan studio.
https://svahayoga.com/event/pre-ttc-70-hours-one-month-intensive-sadhana-series/

Join the culture protest tomorrow. Tomorrow Wednesday to support the culture sector of the Netherlands we will teach 2 FREE yoga classes in the Amsterdam Museum just around the corner of the downtown studio. Please join so we can raise our voice to open up the culture sector that is still suffering from the lockdown. Classes will be at 11th and at 13:15. Please bring your own mat and join the flow to support this suffering sector. The management of the Amsterdam Museum has helped us out enormously in the previous lockdown by offering the central space of the museum for our yoga classes. The least we can do is help them out. So please help us to help them out and raise our voice. It has been enough.

Yes yes yes we are open. You can book class in Mindbody. Hope to see you very soon.

Wish you were here.