General Information

This introduction course to integral yoga is made of a series of 4 workshops that can be attended independently or as building up. They reflect the 4 powers of the Mother: Harmony, Wisdom, Perfection and Strenght. The workshop sessions are not made of lectures to be learnt and they don’t require any previous knowledge on yoga, they only require an open heart and a commitment for inner development. This approach combines spiritual development with psychological healing through the use of simple and interactive methods, in which we allow ourselves to share deep feelings and insights of our life journey with our fellow companions for a communal spiritual progress. Each workshop is made of four sessions, explained below:

• Conscious Sharing Circles: According to Sri Aurobindo, all life is Yoga and yoga as a sadhana (spiritual practice) is a methodised effort towards self-perfection, which brings to expression the latent, hidden potentialities of the living beings. These sessions are based on the main thoughts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and go further to delve first hand at the source of our inner knowledge. In fact, for Sri Aurobindo, there is no specific or right path to reach this goal, it is a virgin forest that each one of us has to explore in his own way and rhythm.

• Yoga of Inner Discovery: In yoga there is a starting-point: when we have found within ourselves the light that never wavers, the presence that can guide us with certitude. These sessions are based on this fundamental understanding, over which we build an exploration using a number of concepts from psychosynthesis and methods from Indo-European shamanism. This approach provides a valuable learning and life experience in developing our own guidance and as a support in our journey, giving sound foundations to go through deep dynamics, healing blocks and restore fragmented parts. 

• Integral Psychology: This system is dedicated to serve a pluridimensional and integral psychological reality beyond mental consciousness, so as to construct an integral structure and model of human being that is capable of evolutionary growth. For that, we use a holistic framework from a body-centered perspective based on psychosynthesis, polyvagal nerve theory, neurobiological sciences and integrative somatic trauma healing therapy. The main focus is on developing consciousness-based attitudes and skills that help ourselves to face particular moments of challenge or change in life. 

• Awareness Through the Body: This work is based on the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, but it also blends elements from a multitude of disciplines, including dance, hatha yoga, taoism, martial arts, physiotherapy, shiatsu, relaxation and breathing techniques. Through a wide variety of creative exercises and often fun games, offer practical opportunities to the individuals and the group, to raise self-awareness and to be more conscious of our own perceptions and abilities, so that we may become self-directed individuals.