Sadhu Valakhilyas
Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa (poweryoga) and Anusara
Sadhu teaches with great enthusiasm & light hearted playfulness, and delights in sharing yoga’s transformative power with others! His classes explore the magic of movement when infused with the deepest sentiments of our hearts, and are rooted in profoundly nourishing, dynamic alignment principles.
He is a keen story teller, and relishes weaving evocative narrative with sound biomechanics in creative sequences of yoga techniques, that facilitate a deeply therapeutic, insightful, and uplifting yoga experience.
Sadhu offers yoga flow that moves progressively deeper, requiring a more skillful application of the sessions focal alignment actions as the practice unfolds. Some poses are held for longer periods to permit a more thorough investigation of these actions. Each class is accompanied with a playlist of music that enriches the focal qualities of the session. Meditation and breathing practices are also regularly included.
Sadhu’s classes deeply fortify body and breath, heighten self awareness, and highlight yoga’s capacity to transform our thinking, and movement patterns. Sadhu offers a space for students to profoundly encounter themselves, and survey the vast application of yoga.
His teaching is greatly infused with the practical wisdom of Tantra, which he feels to be incredibly pertinent for modern living. He has taught internationally since 2004, offering classes, courses, and workshops in yoga, meditation and playful touch, and also works as both masseur and yoga therapist.
Sadhu’s teaching is informed by devoted self practice and a love of self exploration, as well as by the many great teachers with whom he has had the privilege to study. Sadhu trained extensively across the globe with John Friend; the founder of Anusara Yoga, from 2005-2011, and was a licensed Anusara Inspired Teacher for 4 years, accumulating over 1600 hours of Anusara Yoga training.
He has also completed yoga teacher certification programs in several other methods, and studied Iyengar Yoga intensively in India for more than 6 months. Sadhu has both taught and assisted on several yoga teacher training courses and delights in mentoring teacher trainees in unfolding their skills as teachers.
Since the summer of 2013 Sadhu has been enchanted by the practice of AcroYoga and is greatly looking forward to training as a teacher in this modality in the coming months. He is very excited to now be living in Amsterdam, having recently moved from London.
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