Yoga Greece NYSY Studios Athens Greece

February 2009
Yoga LoveFEST
Athens, Greece - About Yoga Love Fest
2009 Yoga loveFest Intro:

Yoga LoveFest with Todd Tesen

A brand-new invitation for celebration awaits you in Athens from NYSY Studios and its team of international yoga teachers and guest presenters: Join the YOGA LoveFEST, on February 14 & 15, for a weekend of inspirational speeches, yoga practice, music, chanting, dance, healthy meals, and meditation—all aimed, simply, at the heart.

OPEN the Heart

AWAKEN the Spirit

TRANSFORM the World

That is the message of this unique happening. For the first time in Greece, great teachers from very different yoga schools and traditions gather for a meeting of hearts and minds. The message is “interconnectedness.” See and feel how connected humans really are with each other, nature, the environment, the animal kingdom, and the world at large.

Experienced yogis as well as beginners can practice different styles of yoga and meditation from the classical Indian Satyananda tradition to the very modern American Power Flow, and experience for themselves the beauty and commonality of all these traditions. Join us this weekend at YOGA LoveFEST, a true celebration of togetherness.

The first YOGA LoveFEST—Athens presents:

Petros Haffenrichter, Jivamukti Yoga

Κonstantinos Haradiniotis, Healthy, conscious eating

Vivi Letsou, Hatha, Partner Yoga, Zen meditation

Swami Nirvikalpa, Satyananda Yoga, Heart Chakra Meditation

Swami Sivamurti Saraswati, Yoga of Awakening,
Interconnectedness, Satyananda

Todd Tesen, Anusara Yoga

Rusty Wells, Bhakti Flow, Dynamic practice

Early Registration (before February 8, 2009)
Complete Event: €158 (includes lunch both days)
Per Day: €88 (includes lunch)
Group Rates, 5 or more people, complete event: €142/person

Late Registration: (from February 8, 2009)
Complete Event : €198
Per Day : € 108

Includes:
Yoga sessions
LoveFEST Bazaar
Kirtan Music & dance
Food

*Bazaar is open to public.

location:Athinais, Kastorias 34, Kerameikos
Athinais Website

SCHEDULE:

SATURDAY, February 14, 9am-9pm
9:00-9:30am Welcome to the YOGA LoveFEST, Speakers Intro
9.30-10:00 Pranayma & Meditation, Vivi Letsou
10:15-12:15 Bhakti Flow, chanting & asana practice, Rusty Wells

12:15pm Break

12:30-1:30 The Yoga of Inter-connectedness, Swami Sivamurti Saraswati
1:30-2:30 Food & Spirituality: Talk & Lunch,intro by Swamiji
2:00-3:00 Chanting/Kirtan, Satyanandashram group in Different room
3:00-3:45 Yoga Nidra, Swamiji
3:45-4:45 Partner Yoga, Vivi Letsou & Georgia Psychogiou
4:45-5:00 Snack & mindfulness: Tangerine Meditation, Maria Ersi Koliri

5:00-5.30 Break

5:30-6:00 Heart Opening Meditation, Konstantinos Harandiniotis
6:00-8:00 Jivamukti Practice, Petros Haffenrichter
8:00-9:00 Kirtan & Dance, Petros Haffenrichter & band

SUNDAY, February 15, 9am-9pm
9:00-10:00am Mindfulness Meditation, Dr. Maria Iliopoulou
10:00-10:30 Loving the Planet, Living Consciously, short talk
10:30-12:30 Jivamukti, Chanting & Practice, Petros Haffenrichter
12:30pm Conscious, Mindful eating, Konstantinos Harandiniotis

1:00-2:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Chanting/Kirtan, Vaishnava’s Institute Gauradesh in Different room
2:00-2:45 Anahata Chakra/Heart Opening Meditation, Swami Nirvikalpa
3:00-5:00 Anusara practice: Opening to Grace, Todd Tesen

5:00-5:30 Break & Snack

5:30-6:00 Consciousness & Activism in all aspects of life, short talk
6:00-8:00 Bhakti Flow chanting & asana practice,Rusty Wells
8:00-9:00 Kirtan-Dance: Celebrating Inter-connectedness, Satyanandashram group

The first YOGA LoveFEST—Athens presents:

Petros Haffenrichter
of Greek origin, a renown musician and actor in Germany, has been a devoted student of Jivamukti founders, Sharon Ganon and David Life since 1999. He became one of the first "Senior Jivamukti Yoga Teachers " in Europe. He is a father of two boys, living in Munich where he co-directs three Jivamukti Yoga Studios. Petros teaches with great devotion, sensitivity and humor, trying to inspire students to practice with full awareness so they can reach a place of peace within their hearts.

Konstantinos Harandiniotis
a yoga practitioner and Buddhist meditator, has traveled extensively to India and Thailand to study Yoga and traditional healing techniques like Ayurveda. Having studied with master teachers of different traditions, he now teaches hatha yoga and is an Ayurvedic Nutritional advisor and meditation teacher. It is his joy to share all he’s learned, and delights in seeing “a small light passed on to others through him”.

Maria Ersi Koliri
is a Counseling Psychologist who focuses in mindfulness practice. She has been practicing yoga since 1998, and spent the last 12 years working as psychologist in hospitals, universities, and with private clients. Her main interest has been developing mental health programs for immigrants and other socially excluded groups. She remains a life long learner in front of the miracle of existence.

Dr Maria Iliopoulou
is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the NHS in the United Kingdom for over 11 years. She has studied and practiced mindfulness since 1998 and has taught mindfulness for the past ten years. She has completed the Teacher Development Intensive at the Centre for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts and has attended retreats at Gaia House, Plum Village and the Omega Institute.

Vivi Letsou
teaches a yoga style that combines the alignment principles of Anusara Yoga with the flow of dynamic yoga and zen meditation. She began her practice in California 25 years ago and had the good fortune to study with great teachers, being especially influenced by the founder of Anusara John Friend, and Rusty Wells, creator of Bhakti Flow. She derives constant guidance and inspiration from her meditation teacher, Reb Anderson, a true Zen master. With her husband Eraj, she directs NYSY Studios, a lively center in the heart of Athens where great people meet to practice yoga and pilates.

Swami Nirvikalpa or Nirvikalpananda, (Ms. Olga Alexiou)
has been the director of Yoga Studio Marousi since 2002. Drawn to the spiritual path in 1984, she devoted herself to yogic path, joining the Satyanandashram in Greece. She studied the Satyananda system at length, at the Institute for Higher and Superior Studies on Yoga, in Bihar, India, headed by senior teacher Swami Niranjananda. She is the Vice-President of the newly-established Yoga Trainers’ Association in Greece.

Swami Sivamurti Saraswati
was born in Australia. In 1976 she was initiated into sannyasa by Paramahamsa Satyananda who commissioned her to spread the teachings of yoga in Greece. In 1978 she founded Satyanandashram Hellas. She is recognized by the International Yoga Fellowship Movement as a yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga). From her main base at the Paiania ashram, she travels in various Greek cities and abroad to lecture on yoga. She is admired for her innate knowledge of human nature and her spontaneous ability to adapt easily to the varying needs of each individual and situation.

Todd Tesen
a certified Anusara Yoga teacher, from Los Angeles, began his intensive Yoga practice 17 years ago with Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga. Discovering Anusara in 2001, he has studied extensively with Anusara founder John Friend, and with Dr.Douglas Brooks, one of the world’s leading scholars of Hindu Tantrism. He travels internationally to teach workshops and Anusara immersions. His teaching is playful and uplifting, creating a sound support where the students can ask of themselves what is truly possible and how deeply they wish to know their hearts.

Rusty Wells
is a yogic messenger in San Francisco and beyond. He infuses his joyful, energetic, and often mind-blowing classes with his belief that we can best serve others—and heal ourselves— through unconditional love and devotion. To this end, he passes along his profound gratitude for breath, body, and mind through yoga’s time-honored practices. An experienced instructor and humble student, Rusty teaches regular and free classes in San Francisco, and leads teacher trainings, retreats and workshops around the world. His classes are an experiential explosion of music, sweat, stillness, and energy that will open your heart and leave you overflowing with bliss.

Georgia Psyhogiou
has completed the 200 hours teachers training - Hatha yoga & Bakhti flow with her beloved teachers Vivi Letsou, Rusty Wells at NYSY STUDIOS. Through her practice, she was awakened to the incredible balancing benefits of yoga – both physical and spiritual – which changed her life and set her on a path to share her love and experience of this beautiful practice by becoming a teacher. Georgia is grateful to have been taught by many amazing teachers including, Vivi Letsou, Rusty Wells, Todd Tesen, Martin Kirk, Desire Rambaugh, Noa Maze, Petros Haffenrichter, Emil Wendel, Diane Long, Dylan Bernstein. She guides students to play their edge mindfully, and with compassion, to go deeper. She encourages students to live their yoga off the mat -to take the physical asana practice into a larger context of yoga, into life as a path of freedom.

Dates: 14/2/2009 - 15/2/2009
Location: Athinais, Kastorias 34, Kerameikos

Refund Policy:
(please read carefully):

Up to 4 weeks Prior to Event: 50% refund
Within 4 weeks of Event Start: Absolutely NO REFUND
Deposits are non-refundable under any circumstances

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