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The Yoga Academy
The Yoga Academy in Barasat offers yoga experiences, retreats, teacher training programs, and live online Zoom classes led by Simon Low. Students can explore yin and yang practices incorporating breathwork, meditation, and alignment.
Barasat, West Bengal
About The Yoga Academy
The Yoga Academy provides transformative yoga experiences and comprehensive teacher training programs. Participants can join rejuvenating yoga retreats, enriching yoga holidays, and engaging live online Zoom classes. The studio emphasizes a balanced personal yoga practice through yin and yang approaches, helpful alignment, circular and spiral movement patterns, joint care, breathwork, and meditation. Additionally, teachings incorporate the internal science of the energetic self, drawing wisdom from yoga, chi kung, Chinese and western medicine, neuroscience, ancient and contemporary philosophy, anatomy and physiology, and psychology.
The approach focuses on safe, accessible, and fresh methods to cultivate personal balance. Practitioners of all flexibility levels can participate, as the practice centers on stilling the mind using the breath and postures rather than physical extremes. Programs aim to inspire individuals to integrate yoga into daily life while providing a space for relaxation, community, and inner peace.
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Questions and answers
Are the retreats suitable for beginners who cannot touch their toes?
Yoga is about stilling the mind using the breath and postures rather than requiring physical flexibility or strange postures.
What expenses are included in the cost of an event?
Most events include teaching, all meals, and accommodation, while participants budget separately for flights, airport transfers, travel and health insurance, and personal purchases or treatments.
Are special diets available during retreats?
Most requirements can be catered to, and participants with special dietary needs are advised to check before booking.
Is insurance required to attend?
Attendees need travel and health insurance.