Yoga seminars με τον Alessandro Ortona
With great pleasure we continue this year the monthly seminars with our beloved teacher Alessandro Ortona, which will be held in our shala one Sunday or one Saturday 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 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 the path towards bliss of pure beingness, beyond all actions, all intentions, all desires. "Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah" says Patanjali, Yoga is the removing of mind's fluctuations. Hundred of thousands of years ago, the human logical mind, started to install doubts and fears in human consciousness and from that two offsprings came out: technology to fight fear on the physical plane (that we have to leave anyway ) and faith in a greater destiny, to fight emotional fear, but until there is no personal experience of That who is beyond, the above two are only hopes. Yoga is the path towards That.
When meditation is mastered,
The mind is unwavering like the
Flame of a lamp in a windless place.
In the still mind,
In the depths of meditation,
The Self reveals itself.
Beholding the Self
By means of the Self,
An aspirant knows the
Joy and peace of complete fulfillment.
Having attained that
Abiding joy beyond the senses,
Revealed in the stilled mind,
He never swerves from the eternal truth
Bhagavad Gita
Dates:
Sunday 20 October 11:00
Sunday 24 November 11:00
Saturday 14 December 14:00
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.