with Atmaram
Atmaram (Eric Papadimitriou)
Atmaram, French born, has been a leading staff member of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers for the past 25 years. As a Swami (Indian Monk), he was the director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta centers in Montreal, Delhi, Paris, Berlin, Vilnius, and Madrid. Atmaram has been teaching in the Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Courses worldwide and has been organizing and conducting Yoga vacations and Yoga retreats in Germany, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia. He was in charge of the development of the Sivananda Yoga movement in Eastern Europe and of setting up the Teachers Training Course for Eastern Europeans in Poland.
Since the spring of 2014, Atmaram has relocated to Sofia, Bulgaria where he has continued teaching Yoga and Meditation as well as giving yoga seminars in Bulgaria, Greece, Norway, Russia and the Czech Reüublic .
Atmaram is a dynamic yoga teacher who shares his experience of Yoga and Meditation with joy, enthusiasm, and humor.
Prana, Pranayama and mind control
Asana and pranayama class: 15:30 – 17:00
Stimulating and recharging the solar plexus (Manipura Chakra) , the battery of the body.
Enhance digestion, balance the nervous system and increase the power of concentration.
- Proper use of the diaphragm
- Pranayama techniques to recharge the solar plexus and increase the flow of Prana in the Nadis (energy channels)
- Asanas to relax and stimulate the solar plexus
- Visualization techniques to augment the flow of Prana
Workshop: Prana (universal energy): its control and usage 17:15 – 18:45
With many practical tips and exercises
- What is Prana? How to experience it ?
- External and internal sources of Prana
- For which functions is the prana used by body and mind
- Prana management for maximum physical and mental efficiency
- Prana and thought control
