Yoga Sadhana with Alessandro Ortona
With great pleasure we continue also in 2026 the monthly seminars with our beloved teacher Alessandro Ortona, which will be held in our shala once per month.
Alessandro is one of the most unique and authentic teachers of traditional Hatha Yoga. In a penetrating and direct way, he always manages to touch deeply and inspire the application of Yoga practice in everyday life, which is what ultimately makes it transformative. A seeker and a great teacher. The practice includes asanas (physical exercises), pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, mantras, and satsang.
The seminar has no end time. Alessandro asks us to surrender from the concept of schedule and the limitation of time and become as open and free from these concepts as possible. The seminar can last 2 hours, it can last 4… Everyone has the right to leave whenever they want. The practice will include asana (physical exercises), pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, mantra and satsang.
A few words from Alessandro:
Yoga is a state, not a technique or a practice. The seeker practices to create the conditions for the mind to reunite with itself, overcoming the fears created by that same mind through separation. Techniques and practices, however, can be mistaken for ends in themselves, and in doing so, they may keep the practitioner trapped in a delusional loop.
These times we are living in call for a deep and genuine transformation of human consciousness. They are not times for superficial "make-up" or patchwork solutions. Yet, paradoxically, they are times in which it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between what is real and what is artificial, between acting and being, between truth and falsehood. This very confusion is both the reason for such a transformation and the greatest obstacle to it.
Dates:
- Sunday 25 October 11:00
- Sunday 29 November at 11:00
- Saturday 19 December at 13:30
Cost:
25 euros/seminar or 65 euros for the 3 seminars
Alessandro Ortona
Born in Italy, in 1966, Alessandro started practicing yoga at the age of 15, under his mother’s influence. As a young boy, he was deeply touched by his meetings with the various teachers who frequented his home. He graduated university with a degree in Business Management and he worked in the shipping sector for a few years. Seeking a calmer and more inspired lifestyle, he abandoned his carrier and he travelled to Antigua, Caribbean, to start a new life. After staying there for six years, and after realizing that changes to external circumstances do not actually mean much, he decided to dedicate himself to yoga, and he started practicing intensely.
He met with the great yogi Sri Sri Sri Satchidananda who taught him the foundations of the ancient Hatha Yoga tradition. In Italy, he studied with Walter Ruta (Tirak) and he started teaching and supporting the development of the Pramiti Yoga School. At a later time, he decided to experience life in an Ashram, which brought him to Greece, where he met his guru, Swami Shivamurti Saraswati, and where he spent a few years in the Satyananda Ashram in the Paiania region in Attica. There, he studied the principles of Karma Yoga and the traditional teachings of Satyananda. Since 2010, he lives in Lagonisi, and he teaches in Athens and throughout the region of Attica.