Universal Yoga is a transformational yoga system that creates better physical health, wellness, emotional stability, and mental clarity. The ultimate aim is liberation from the limitations of our minds, and unification of ourselves as a whole.

Created by Guruji Andrey Lappa, there are only a handful of UY Teachers in the Western World today.

MUST BRING TWO YOGA MATS, and ARRIVE 10 MINUTES EARLY to class for setup.

There are a few foundational aspects of UY that make it unique and highly effective as a method:

1. Maya Koshas - Physical, energetic, emotional, intellectual, spiritual bliss, Karma, and consciousness. UY incorporates practices of most of these.

2. Balance - In the unique and advanced Universal Yoga classes, such as “Mandala Vinyasa” class, we use cross mats, for creating balance in all orientations in space (front, back, left, right, up, and down), and combine asanas, with mantras (sound), mudras (gestures), visualizations, pranayamas (breath work), rasas (emotions for each Chakra), and other unique techniques to bring about balance among Mayakoshas.

3. Complexity - As we repeat the same action over and over, we reduce the involvement of our cognitive abilities in such action, to a point where our mind is free to be monkey-mind. In UY classes at Yoga for Life, you will find a UY Teacher teaching poses that are more complex but built from well-known poses. This helps practitioners advance their practice with laser focus, and helps practitioners reduce/remove their ego and pride associated with the “expertise” of a given pose, bringing about humility, curiosity, and studentship in their practice.

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