Yogathilakam Deepika Giri – Senior Acharya of the Gitananda Yoga tradition ​

 

Deepika is the lead Pranayama trainer for the Gitananda Yoga tradition, a system that has a wealth of practices focused on Pranayama, the science of energy control, enhanced through the combination of the direction of the mind and various disciplines of the breath.  

 

Deepika is one of only 25 teachers worldwide with the 3000-hour advanced training in the tradition, and her passion is teaching pranayama as someone who overcame severe respiratory health issues through the powerful healing that pranayama and yogic living miraculously provided!

 

Deepika also Co-founded  the Yoga Satsanga Ashram in West Wales 15 years ago, where classical Ashtanga Yoga of the Rishi culture system is taught in a residential immersive setting. Deepika is also a Senior Acharya at the Gitananda Ashram in Tamil Nadu, where she trains teachers in Pranayama regularly under the mentorship of Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, son and successor of Swami Gitananda Giri.

 

Class description: ‘Healing pranayamas’

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The Gitananda system has many different sets of Pranayama which work on different aspects of our being and the flow of the prana itself. This year Deepika will teach a particular set of Pranayama from the tradition called the ‘healing pranayamas’, which involve some vigorous bhastrika work along with some mental focus into specific areas of the body and breath control. These teachings are passed from Guru to chela in an unbroken lineage (Please note: non-smokers only may attend).