Yoga Souk | Jivamukti & Ashtanga yoga center in Beirut

WHAT IS YOGA SOUK

A Souk is traditionally an open space where people put aside their differences to exchange goods and information. Our Souk is a space where we openly gather and put away all feelings of intimidation and judgment. Our Souk is a place where we can open up further, where we can become more vulnerable but also more fearless.

YOGA SOUK MANIFESTO

This is your ultimate survival guide for living in Beirut a medicine that goes right to the source of everything Something for what’s broken and what’s perfectly whole You will always leave happier than when you arrived but in the end we will always lead you back to yourself.

YOGA SOUK FOUNDERS

TINA PAKRADOUNI Tina is the founder of Yoga Souk Beirut, and a devoted Mysore Practitioner for over 5 years. Tina has been practicing Yoga for 12 years, she completed a YTT with Yogaworks in 2015. She henceforth continued and deeped her own practice by getting on her mat on a daily basis for the last 5 years. She says she was blessed to get to practice with so many amazing authorized teachers here at YogaSouk. In her own words: “normally we would need to travel to have such level of teachings but they were right here every morning! and the experience was priceless!” Tina is forever grateful for the amazing opportunity she had to assist her main teacher Arne Espejel, a level II KPJAYI authorized Ashtanga teacher for several months. “His unique way of holding the room taught me so much“ and she then decided it was time to give back and share the teachings she has learned and to trasmit this practice that helps mold the body and especially the mind.”

YOGA SOUK TEACHERS

MARIA PAMOUKIAN Maria is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher and Health Coach (Institute of Integrative Nutrition, 2016). She was recently in New York completing her apprenticeship with Jules Febre.

JIVAMUKTI

Jivamukti Yoga is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit word ‘āsana’ as “seat, connection” - that is one's relationship to the earth and all living beings. Jivamukti Yoga is an integrated method that offers a vigorous and energizing āsana practice - a practice that is by essence creative while adhering to intelligent sequencing and alignment principles.

ASHTANGA

Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic, physically demanding practice that synchronizes breath and movement to produce internal heat designed to purify the body. Ashtanga Yoga offers a set sequence of āsanas, through which one progresses with practice. Ashtanga Yoga is however way more than a set series of postures. The āsanas are simply tools with which one can explore the energetic and mystical world of yoga.

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