Yoga lessons are held on a wooden platform surrounded by nature, a stone’s throw from the Lao River. Doing yoga in nature offers many benefits and sensations that are difficult to experience in classic city gyms.
Margherita Dall’Oglio and Antonio Trani are our yoga teachers, they both studied it in India and continue to test themselves on the mat every day. “For us, personal practice is essential to be able to share the deepest concepts of yoga through movement, breathing and concentration.”
Margherita started with hata yoga, but ashtanga is her great love which she shares with humility and calm. It is a physically intense practice that requires both physical and mental commitment.
It consists of a sequence of positions (asanas) connected by breathing in a succession of movements that have a profound effect on the body and mind.
The space in which we practice (shala) is both outdoors in nature and in a small heated room for cold days.
What is Ashtanga yoga?
Ashtanga is a Sanskrit term that literally means “eight limbs”, referring to the eight paths of Yoga outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. Yogapedia defines it as “a physically demanding style of yoga, developed by T. Krishnamacharya and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the 20th century.”
Ashtanga is therefore the union of the eight branches of Yoga, in a complete system.
But what exactly are these 8 branches?
These are the fundamental foundations of Ashtanga Yoga, as described by Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (one of the most important texts of Yoga), namely:
Yama (norms of behavior towards others)
Niyama (standards towards oneself)
Asanas (postures)
Pranayama (breath control)
Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses)
Dharana (concentration)
Dhyana (meditation)
Samadhi (oneness with the self)
We obviously focus above all on the third branch, the one relating to physical practice, whose purpose is in fact to lead us to cultivate clarity, awareness, strength, flexibility and resistance, on the mat, as well as in life .
balance between body and mind
Yoga is an ancient, thousand-year-old art that contains a set of techniques that aim to achieve balance between body and mind. River Tribe is the ideal place to try yoga for the first time or progress your practice together with qualified teachers.
The courses are structured according to everyone’s needs, which is why we offer both group lessons and private lessons which include meditation, pranayama and asanas (i.e. physical postures).
There is nothing better than waking up in the morning in the glamping site, taking a yoga class, relaxing near the Lao River and contemplating nature.
We structure the lessons on the basis of some variables, for example based on the time spent in our area and the physical commitment of other outdoor activities such as rafting or mountain biking.
RIVER TRIBE
Contrada San Primo 35
Laino Borgo (Cosenza)
Calabria – Italy