Theory of Yoga
Hatha yoga Kriya yoga Mantra yoga Pranayama yoga Yoga of meditation Karma yoga Bhakti yoga Jnana yoga Raja yoga Nidra yoga Kundalini yoga Laya yoga Nyasa yoga
Yoga teachers in Europe
Yoga teachers in Europe
Yoga instructors and teachers in Europe
All teachers and instructors have been certified by
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International Open Yoga Fondation – Europe
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International Open Yoga University (4 years education)
Vadim Zaporojtsev
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Yogini Rasa
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Catherina Karani
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Laya yoga
Laya yoga is closely connected to kundalini yoga. It is based on principle: difficult in studying, easy in practice. Practicing yoga, especially when we start to use kundalini energy (even in its emanations), serious inner processes take place inside of us. This energy dissolves our structures, but we try to hold on to these structure because …
Kundalini yoga
If you hear the word “kundalini”, you should know this is the division of tantra yoga. Most likely, the true practices dealing directly with kundalini energy were selected from tantra yoga and named kundalini yoga. Basic energy of our body is laid inside of us. It is called kundalini energy. We don’t have two energies. We have the …
Nidra yoga
We all spend some time sleeping. Yoga says there is a state of sleep without dreams and sleep with dreams. Dreams – it is an entire world, a huge layer. Yoga appeals us to use the state of sleep for self-realization and self-comprehension. Dream yoga is a wide, interesting and exciting division of yoga. Here, for example, you …
Raja yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BBgkbH2uY Raja yoga Raja yoga is the one of the advanced kinds of yoga, often called president’s yoga or leader’s yoga. Are you a good boss and how to be a boss? Raja yoga will tell us how to be a real leader. Raja yoga is the one of the advanced kinds of yoga, often …
Jnana yoga
Jnana – knowledge that helps to get all the knowledge there is! We have an intellect, a capacity to think, to ask and answer questions. These skills are available because of our mind. Our mind doesn’t invent anything new; it just uses one of the fundamental principles of the Universe. The principle that uses our …
Bhakti yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZdeRKitSs We have a capacity to perceive the world esthetically. Bhakti yoga teaches us that the Highest Principle (we call it Absolute, God, whatever you like) reveals through everything we consider beautiful. Places where we could feel this «supreme» attract us and if we don’t feel the Supreme then we feel disgust. Bhakti yoga appeals to sensual …
Karma yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRP3tKwWVY We all work. This fact follows out from our karma. But the work is not a curse, it is a great chance. Our goal is to get rid of negative karma and to accumulate the positive one. How can we get rid of negative karma? Even the fact that the Universe gives us any kind of activity …
Yoga of meditation
What is yoga of meditation and what does it give? There are various branches of yoga: hatha yoga, pranayama yoga, mantra yoga, raja yoga, djnana yoga etc. Together they all represent a single teaching, the goal of which is to achieve the peak of self-exploration and to acquire freedom. Knowledge is power and any knowledge regarding …
Pranayama yoga
We have an ability to breathe. Moreover, breathing movements reflect our inner state. When we are calm we breathe in one way, when we are worried we breathe differently and when we sleep there again is different pattern of breathing. Even yoga uses breathing exercises but the effect goes beyond it. Pranayama yoga is working …
Mantra yoga
We all can talk. The talking and speaking process is not so easy. It is connected straight to the process of thoughts creation, and this process is connected straight to the kundalini energy. In some meaning mantra yoga is the usage of kundalini energy by vibrations of words and thoughts. There is a method to …
Kriya yoga
Besides static exercises our physical body can make some movements. Groups of cyclic movements – kriya rounds – form the base of kriya yoga. Our body is made in such way that we are supposed to make definite number of movements. But in our way of the life we mostly spend time in a sitting …
Hatha yoga
Hatha yoga is one of the most popular and we can also say – one of the most visual kinds of yoga. Actually, when people are talking about yoga they imagine the poses of hatha yoga. Why is it popular today? Let’s take a look on the physical aspect of hatha yoga and what it …
Lyudmila Vershinina
About Me I am studying and giving yoga classes for future yoga instructors at the International Open Yoga University. I have been practicing yoga since 2007. At first I started doing yoga occasionally. After my first class I was surprised that simple exercises lead to such excellent results. I began attending classes regularly. …
Svetlana Dhatri
About Me Hello everybody! My name is Svetlana Dhatri. I learned about yoga in 2007 when I visited a group practice by a recommendation of my friend. My first thoughts were: “Wow, yogis are so flexible and skilled, I will never be like them!” But very soon I changed my mind and was …
Margarita Lesenkova
About Me I am a teacher of the International Open Yoga University. I am curator of the online yoga courses (www.openyogaclass.com) in Russian. I have been practicing and learning yoga for 7 years. Yoga has become the main driving force in my life, the source of power, health and inspiration. I have chosen …
9. Do I need to follow a specific lifestyle when practicing yoga?
No, you don’t. Yoga doesn’t require people to maintain any special or different lifestyle from the one generally accepted. On the other hand, yoga is not insisting on that you should lead the common lifestyle. Yoga advocates the complete freedom of a person in this regard and calls upon leading the lifestyle that you find …
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8. Do I need to be a vegetarian to practice yoga?
No, you don’t need that. You don’t have to be a vegetarian to practice yoga and to benefit from it. Yoga isn’t a club of people united by gastronomic predilections; yoga does not impose people of any kind of hard dietary restrictions or lifestyle. The ideal of yoga is freedom: if you decide to become …
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7. What diseases are cured yoga?
Healing of diseases is done by medical institutions and yoga is not trying to take the place of medicine. Yoga doesn’t substitute medicine. Yoga is a system of self-exploration, which helps to maintain health and sometimes deals with certain diseases, but it is simply a side-effect of self-exploration process, no more than that. If you …
6. Is yoga a religion?
No, it isn‘t a religion. Yoga is a system of harmonious self-exploration. People of different religious views, as well as people without relation to any religion can practice do yoga. Although sometimes there are some terms and explanations in yoga that sound similar to the religious ones, for example, the names of some poses, but …
5. Who can practice yoga?
Yoga is suitable for all people, regardless of nationality, race, cultural identity or any other aspect. Yoga does not divide of people by race, nationality, culture or religion. Therefore, yoga is as suitable for people in the East as in the West. Everyone can take something useful various yoga exercises. Yoga doesn‘t require any …
4. How much different kinds of yoga do exist in the world?
There are as many kinds of yoga as ways a human beings can express themselves. We have the physical body, which can take static poses. This ability of our body is used by hatha yoga. We have the ability to breathe – it gives us pranayama or yoga of breathing. We have eyes, sometimes our …
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3. How old is yoga?
No one knows when yoga was born. We only know that it happened thousands of years ago. First, yoga knowledge was given orally from a teacher to students and then – in written form. It is believed that four written evidences of yogic knowledge have reached us. They are known as four Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, …
2. What is the goal of yoga?
The goal of yoga is to achieve freedom over all limiting factors. As a result of acquiring this freedom amazing abilities appear as we see sometimes demonstrated by yogis controlling their physical bodies, mental and psychic powers, which seem to be fantastic for ordinary people. It is not the goal of yoga to get a …
1. What is yoga?
Yoga is an ancient, very kind, very logical and harmonious system of self-exploration and exploring of the Universe. Yoga reveals our inner abilities and gives absolute freedom. Yoga has incorporated the century’s’ wisdom and the experience of the followers of this system. As a result of this self-exploration very specific recommendations were given on how …
Igor Djnana
About Me My name is Igor Djnana. I am an Open Yoga teacher. I have been studying yoga since 2007. My professional yoga journey started in 2011, when I enrolled at the International Open Yoga University (IOYU). It is wonderful to have someone to look up to and for me it is Vadim …
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DHARMA – WAY OF LIFE
DHARMA – WAY OF LIFE Dharma is the way of life which is formed when we try as much as possible to follow the first and the second principles of yoga. Dharma is the way of our life, which leads us to the supreme spiritual heights of self-exploration. It is the greatest fortune to find …
Yoga Q&A
Yoga Q&A 1. What is yoga? 2. What is the goal of yoga? 3. How old is yoga? 4. How much different kinds of yoga do exist in the world? 5. Who can practice yoga? 6. Is yoga a religion? 7. What diseases are …
Lyubov Ivannikova
About Me Hello! My name is Lyubov Ivannikova. I am a Yoga Teacher. From an early age, I was looking for answers to the question “What is the meaning of life?”, “How does the intuition work?” and others. I was fascinated by esoteric. It was interesting, but did not bring harmony and happiness. …
Uttar Mantrin
About Me Senior Curator and Teacher in at International Open Yoga University (IOUY), Managing Curator of Distance Learning of IOYU, Head of the Department of hatha yoga. Specialization: hatha yoga, mantra yoga. Head of the Regional Centre of IOYU in Syktyvkar, the Komi Republiс (Russia). Conducts studies of extramural students of the IOYU. Experience of …
Kamila
About Me My interest about yoga appeared very early, when I was still at school. In 2008 I found out about International Open Yoga University (IOYU). I specialize in hatha yoga as various poses are the prime source for western people in understanding of their internal processes. I was one of the pioneers, …