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 MIND FLOW YOGA

integrating movement breath and meditation

MIND FLOW  is a yogic flow practice that supports us to live our lives most authentically with maximum fulfillment

This authentic life, using spiritual language, is where we celebrate the divine and our own divineness.

MIND FLOW integrates:-

  • breath work, pranayama 

  • physical posture and movement, asana

  • meditation, sati, which can mean present moment awareness. In English, it can be translated as mindfulness.

I culminates in the deeply restorative meditative practice called Yoga Nidra, an NSDR Non-Sleep Deep Rest activity, that is sicnetifucally evidence to re-wire the brain, enable deep rest, better sleep, insight and creativity.

Meditation as the great 2000 year old teaching, The Yoga Sutra, tells us is the goal of yoga. Meditation here means Insight into life as it is, moment by moment

Historically pranayama and asana practices were preparations for meditation.

In MIND FLOW we have a flow of meditation that involves:-

  • being mindful of our breath

  • being mindful of our physical movement

  • being mindful of the flow of our thoughts and emotions


We do this while playfully connecting with the natural world around us.

MIND FLOW is taught

REVIEWS:

‘I had a magic experience in Raphael’s MIND FLOW class. I was experiencing my period and at first, I was not willing to move my body I followed Raphael’s guidance and added the breath to the movement. Suddenly, I started to feel my body energized, my skin vibrating, and my mind in a state of bliss. We ended up in Shavasana corpse position, listening to their soothing voice, which made this experience unforgettable.  

-Lucy, class participant, Brazil

"MIND FLOW yoga is an amazing space for those who are looking to experience yoga in a deeper, more mindful level. Raphael is an incredible teacher with a wide experience in meditation which translates in a very beautiful class. I definitely recommend everyone to take this journey with them” 

- Juliana, class participant, Colombia

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“Your body is waiting for you to be its friend” - the words so kindly spoken, still echoing in my mind as I recall my MIND FLOW yoga session with Raphael.

What does it mean to befriend the vessel that shelters you, safeguards you in this physical realm, and allows you to have such an eclectic spectrum of experiences?

Why are these words so specifically relevant to my understanding of my presence. How disconnected am I actually from my body? -in this society that programs me to interpret it as a machine, as a tool, or as a feminine asset or an object of objectification.

Why is my shelter waiting for me to befriend it? Have I forgotten all that it has directed me to accomplish in life? all the times it has protected me, gained me wisdom, or allowed me to feel love- the energy I so vitally regard as essential to my living. Perhaps I have been ungrateful with the circumstance of my vessel that, has given more that it has taken. Raphael took me on a guided journey of coming back into my body, to healing the wound that in an absurd and unrealistic way had disconnected me from my most closest physical manifestation.

What a surprisingly delightful session! What unexpected turns and twist into the inner layers of myself!

As a psychotherapist as well as certified meditation yoga teacher, Raphael swiftly combines mindfulness, meditation, and yoga asanas and carves a path taking you slowly to a trance-like meditative state, connecting you to somewhat strangers in the room with vibrant energy and positive ambiance.

As you experience fluid, gentle, strengthening bodily movements that allow you structured freedom to explore your range of motion and creativity,

Raphael, with their smooth wisdom-filled caramel voice, takes and follows you on a very long trip that doesn't require leaving the mat, but will leave you with elevated clarity and purified introspective questions.

Get yourself a ticket for this ride that continues far long after leaving the yoga studio.

Thank you once more! I have found a long-lost companion. I have re-found my body-my protector, my friend.

- Mairi, class participant, Georgia