Yoga in Málaga photo by Carlyn Peterson

Yoga in Malaga, Spain

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Yoga classes continue in August.

 Estrella y Joaquín yoga on the beach

Yoga classes continue in August.
Keep practicing, we are open during the month of August. If you are spending a few days off in Malaga you can attend single classes.
We have extended hours that suits many possibilities to not miss a day of practice in our YogaSala.

YogaSala.

With stunning views of the cathedral in the center, with natural ventilation typical of old houses where we enjoyed a nice breeze and a bright interior courtyard.

Bright interior courtyard.

You can go whenever you want at any time that suits you, within the established schedule.
  Morning and evening hours.

August

YOGA CLASSES GENERAL

   MORNINGS:
  From 7'45 to 9'15 Monday and Wednesday
  From 10.00 to 11.30 Tuesday and Thursday.

   AFTERNOON:
  From 18'30 to 20'00 Monday and Wednesday.
  From 19 to 20:30 Thursday
  From 20:30 to 22:00 Monday and Wednesday.


ADVANCED YOGA (Recommended for people with experience in the practice of yoga)

  Tuesday from 19.30 to 21.00

  Extra class Friday 18'30 to 20'30

Yoga Sala Malaga. Street / Moreno Monroy May. 3rd.
(Intersection of Street / Larios)
Center of Malaga.
Energy and Relaxation.
Phone 626 08 80 86.
For information directly into the YogaSala, please, before or after hours activities.
Write to: yogamalaga@yahoo.es

"MANTRA CHANTING THURSDAY" IN YOGASALA THIS WEEK

On Thursday 25, we will have a Mantra Chanting Group Session in Yogasala. 

Mantra chanting makes your life flow, simply put. 

And it helps move energy in the body and heart so that the energy flowing to and through the body and mind is more fluid. The sound of a Mantra can lift us towards the higher self, or simply towards feeling a lot better, for the sounds can bring transformation in us while leading us to power and strength, and quietness, all at the same time.

Money contributions are voluntary.  Schedule: from 20:30 to 21:30

The session will be hosted by: 
Be Pryce, Singing Therapist, Gestalt Psychotherapist, Mantra Chanter.

For more info and reservations, please call 648058496, 
or write to suryaterapiasintegrativas@gmail.com

Yoga class in Playa de la Malagueta by Isabel Martínez.

                                   Enjoy your practice in touch with the elements, sea, sun and fresh air

Yogasala and Isabel Martínez (Surya Integrative Therapies co-funder) invite you to a very special event on July, the 18th. We´ll meet at La Moraga de Antonio Martín, a very well known  restaurant at La Malagueta, at 8 pm.

Everyone is welcome and we are very happy that you come with your friends. Beginners and advanced Yoga lovers, all together will join together for the purpose of sharing our practice, enjoying Nature and offering Yoga to the world.

We speak English, Spanish and German. This event stimulates itself with free donation. We will join again at the end of August.

Please bring a Yoga mat or a towel. Thank you for your interest. We appreciate that you confirm how many of you are coming. Phone number: 722 307 195 or E-mail: suryaterapiasintegrativas@gmail.com.

Love.

Isabel.

Yoga: Solstice in Times Square NY. Caridad was there!

 

Through yoga celebration of summer solstice in Times Square. Thousands of participants. Caridad, who visited us a few months ago to YogaSala, was there.

Thank you! Yoga Sala, by Caridad from Nueva York

 

 

Thank you! Yoga Sala

Joaquin my teacher at "Yoga Sala" is a caring and patient teacher to beginners like me, though his class attract yoga students in all levels. His instructions are always so clear and assuring that i find myself doing the poses that i have never imagined doing. He inspire you to try your best, while giving alternatives or encouraging you to do "what you can do".
The studio is absolutely beautiful, bright, and with the best view of Malaga Cathedral.
I feels lucky to have a place like "Yoga Sala" to go, and friends I will be happy to see again.
Best,
Caridad from Nueva York

"Multitasking", full article by Joaquin G Weil, translated to English by Corey Schuster

 

Our mind is capable of carrying out many tasks simultaneously, but can our attention be concentrated on various things at one time? Let´s head to the land of the asanas…

The human mind functions via various layers of attention and consciousness. This is shown, for example, when we are driving and we are able to keep one eye on the road while the other is checking the rear view mirror. We do this all while listening to the motor, changing speeds and gears, using both our hands and feet. And what´s even more, we are able to listen to the radio or chat with other passengers and pay attention to our own passing thoughts.

The ability to do this is called “multitasking”. To compare it lightly, we could say our mind is like a computer in which a variety of windows or desktops are open at the same time. In reality, however, a computer doesn´t carry out all these tasks at the same time; rather it switches from one back to another so quickly that it only seems like they are happening simultaneously. Our minds work in a similar way: although we can be alert to many stimuli, or even carry out various tasks at once, our undivided attention can only be focused on one thing at a time and then move on to the next.

It may not seem like it, but this is a good thing. This promises that while we are processing a variety of information consciously, we are alert.

TURNING OFF THE SENSES

Juan, a regular at the Buddhist Studies Center in Málaga, lives at the top of a mountain in the Axarquía mountain range. He tells me that when he attends the classes given by the Lamas, which are held in the city center, he can´t stand the noise of the city. I´m not surprised. Living the in solitude of the countryside, where the only noise that you can make out is the faint barking of a dog or the humming of a distant airplane, makes the senses become so fine-tuned that the roaring noises of city life become deafening. We, urban folk, have had to turn down the sharpness of our senses in order to survive in the environment of lights and screaming noises.

Normally, our minds are bombarded with an infinite number of sensory stimuli and news. Of these, just a select few make it to our conscious attention. On occasions, in an intuitive way, we focus our attention on those stimuli that advert us to danger or emergencies. During a yoga practice, we have the opportunity to fine tune our senses. For example, one specific part of Ashtanga yoga, Pratyahara, consists of just that: sharpening our senses towards internal stimuli.

THE PILGRAMAGE OF ATTENTION

Coming back to the term “multitasking”, from my point of view, a yoga practice cannot be successfully carried out while we are paying attention to each of the individual parts an asana requires. For example, when I practice Downward Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana), I try to do it step-by-step: relax and firmly plant my feet and hands on the floor. Besides this firm and stable support, I relax my body upwards and at the same time, stretch. I release tension in my neck. I breathe deeply from my hips to my back, relaxing the abdomen and diaphragm on the exhalations. I do this as if I were fostering attention towards my body.

The effect of this type of concentration – step-by-step and detailed – is in and of itself meditative, zen-like. I am working on simplifying my thoughts and allowing my attention to flow calmly. And at the same time I have formed part of the global conscience (referred to as holistic today), cleansing my attention to reach an ideal state of alert relaxation, where my intuition is clearer and sure, from which it is fine tuned to receive in serene way the most relevant sensory information.

The physical worker may relax in the shower or in the bath after a hard day´s work. However, on the other hand, the intellectual worker may find his “mental shower” during the practice of asanas.

 (Our article "Multitasking" was published in the paper issue 30th of the spanish version of  Yoga Journal)