The Traditional Yoga Association

Isabel co-ordinates the activities of The Traditional Yoga Association and The MUKTI Project in Spain. She is a dedicated and gifted Yoga and Meditation teacher whose general classes are open to everyone.

Isabel teaches at ‘Centro Nagual’ in Madrid and also at a local Teachers’ Support Centre for women and men who are teachers.

I have been practising Yoga for over twenty years but it was only when I met Swami Ambikananda that my Yoga practice was converted into a powerful tool of personal transformation, integrating body, vitality and spirit. A practice centred in exploration, sensitivity, curiosity, consciousness — not in ‘achievement’ which only increases psychological and physical tension.

My body has been transformed into an inexhaustible source of secrets, into my teacher. It has taught me to have the courage to look at what I don't know and go beyond my ‘idea-of-I’, to create spaces which free me from the programmed and automatic pattern of action-reaction, and opened me to creative and healing responses, without dogmatisms. It has taught me to experience Yoga as a conscious movement of my whole being towards a state in which my most profound reality is revealed. And this is what I try to let flow when I teach Yoga. This is the background on which asana, pranayama, relaxation, silence and meditation are woven. No one, whatever his or her condition, is excluded from this thrilling adventure which puts us in contact with the power of Life that is manifest in each one of us. And we begin to glimpse the divine in the material…