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Kalari Payattu

Advantages

Practicing Kalari energizes both your mind and body. It increases you capacity to handle stress, anxiety and physical exhaustion.
The graceful but fierce movements engage your cores and help improve coordination, flexibility, instinct. It also enhances blood circulation within your body thus increasing aerobic capacity.
Practicing Kalari stretches your entire body, including your chest, back, arms, shoulders and legs. This is often useful in removing stress knots, and kinks and pain embedded deep in the tissues.
It cleanses the body of toxins by activating the lymphatic system and raising your immunity levels. This also helps in rejuvenating your mind, and can be just the right stress buster after a tiring day.
Kalaripayattu makes you more energetic, alert and confident. It improves concentration and focus and enhances your ability to do any activity with skill and precision

Kalaripayattu is a Yogic martial art that helps you channelise your energy,achieve a healthy body and a still mind.

Kalaripayattu – considered to be the mother of all martial arts, originates from Dhanurveda, a very ancient Indian text encompassing all fighting arts.

Bodhidharama, an Indian Buddhist monk took this art form to china and taught this to the monks at the shaolin temple which later came to be established as kung fu.

Crafted in ancient South India drawing inspiration from the raw power and sinuous strength of the majestic animal forms – Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Wild Boar, Snake, and Crocodile …….. Kalaripayattu laid down the combat code to various kingdoms of southern India. Shrouded in deep mystery and mists of secrecy,Kalaripayattu was taught by the masters in total isolation, away from prying eyes.

Following the collapse of the princely states and the advent of free India – Kalaripayattu has lost its significance as a mortal combat code. In a Phoenix-like resurrection, Kalaripayattu is today emerging in a new avatar – an ancient art form – a source of inspiration for self-expression in dance forms – both traditional and contemporary, in theatre, in fitness and in movies too.

Traditional Yoga

Our classes primarily focus on

Asana & Pranayam

Regular and right practice of Asana and Pranayam helps you discover your body and it’s capabilities like never before. The simplest forms of these are capable of imparting high levels of energy and strength and help keep your body functions in check.

Deep Meditation & Relaxation

Guided practice of Shavasana and Yoga Nidra to consciously relax every part of your body and activate the nervous system to absorb the benefits of yoga practice. Meditation clubbed with guided, conscious breathing will induce a calmness that set the tone for mindfulness and awareness.

Inward Spiritual Connect

Consciously training on taming emotions and thoughts guided by deep meditation.

Strength & Flexibility

Regular asana practice works deep into your body. Joints, muscles supporting joints are first molded to let your body further acquire the strength and flexibility to lead a fit, healthy life.

“Yoga stems from a deep understanding of the mechanics of the body, and uses yogic postures, or yogasanas, to enable the system to sustain higher dimensions of energy. By practicing this profound science, one can change and enhance the way they think, feel, and experience life. Yoga is about creating a body that is not a hurdle in your life. The body becomes a stepping stone in the progress towards blossoming into your ultimate possibility.” – Isha yoga .

With the focus on the above, Shriram combines his learnings from his Gurus on different forms of yoga to conduct a holistic class. The class will include Asana practice followed by pranayama and guided meditation.

Styles of yoga incorporated in the class: Hatha, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Angamardhana.

Sound Meditation

Advantages

Achieve deep sleep in less time. 1 hour of sound bath can be equivalent to 4 hours of deep sleep.
Explore your creative intelligence. Sound meditation allows you to reach deep meditative state of Theta-brainwaves, where you can achieve high levels of creative visualization.
Increased learning capacity and performance. Regular sessions with sound meditation have shown significant increase in overall productivity and performance (this otherwise only occurs after several years of meditation)
Enhanced physical recovery. Sound bath research results showed that it has a significant impact on lactic acid reduction in athletes post-workout, accelerating recovery speed and enhancing mobility.

Sound meditation stimulates our brain waves to induce deep relaxation, effortlessly. It is an excellent way for beginners to experience inner peace and calm.
While meditating, it’s usually difficult for us to sit motionlessly and focus. Our mind is a stranger to stillness and continuously needs something to do, even if it’s just listening to simple instructions. Guided meditations have helped us get over this challenge and now Sound Meditation takes it to the next level as it effortlessly takes us deep into a meditative state, which is otherwise very difficult to achieve unless we are a seasoned meditator.

WHAT IS SOUND MEDITATION?

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” – Nicolas Tesla

Sound meditation is an ancient healing practice that uses sounds and vibrations to induce deep meditative states. For thousands of years, sound has been used in ancient cultures to ease anxiety and promote a sense of well being. Many cultures, religions and mystic traditions have celebrated the power of music to induce trance and meditative states to expand one’s consciousness. Sufi mysticism, Kirtan, gospel singing— even the use of bells and harps at a cathedral.

Sound Healing experts state that sound meditation not only affects a great deal of physical healing but also has far-reaching implications that occur on emotional and spiritual levels. The most popular way to practice sound meditation is through “sound baths,” which uses Tibetan singing bowls, quartz bowls, and bells to guide the listener.

SOUND MEDITATION AND BRAIN WAVE PATTERNS

Singing Bowls are used for stimulating brain waves. Brain waves are patterns of electrical activity occurring in the brain. They are crucial to all aspects of brain functioning: thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The pattern of brain waves changes depending on our level of consciousness and cognitive processing. For example, when we feel tired, slower brain waves dominate.
Sound meditation using Singing Bowls works on a scientific concept of Brain Entrainment, which states that listening to certain frequencies can change our brainwave states. The rich blend of harmonic overtones produced from the singing bowls helps us to first sink into the alpha state, then the mind lingers between alpha, theta and delta brain waves enabling deep relaxation and heightened.

Acro Yoga

6 Reasons to Practice AcroYoga

It improves your concentration.
It encourages you to find your core.
It helps build relationships.
Helps you in quick decision making.
It allows you to overcome your fear of falling.
It brings you to surrender.

As a yoga practitioner, Shriram was one that always preferred sticking to traditional and authentic style of practice. However, when an opportunity to practice and eventually learn acroyoga presented itself to him, he was amazed at how much presence of mind and awareness it builds.

Acroyoga looks beautiful and is equally challenging to perform while providing a wide range of therapeutic benefits.

Through his practice, he realized how it enhances concentration, and helps in finding and developing incredible core strength as one challenges gravity with the poses. It also brings about a sense of surrender that is a must to fly and helps build a sense of connect within oneself and the partner.

Join Shriram in exploring this wonderful and exciting artform.

Fun Acroyoga fact : The first ever Acroyoga documentation is Tirumalai krishnamacharya performing asanas with a young student of his.