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Well.Being - Health, Yoga & Beyond, Kosice (2025)

23/11/2025

In a world filled with noise - constant sound, constant talk - silence becomes rare.
Even in a yoga class, there is often so much happening: movement, instruction, energy.
Yet within it all, something powerful emerges when we, as teachers, begin to speak less and mean more.

Silent teaching doesn’t mean the absence of guidance.
It means allowing the space itself to teach.

Vishuddhi, the space chakra, is the center of expression and communication - within us and outward. Located in the throat, it is where we hold so much information, not through doing or saying, but through being.
When we teach from this place, our tone softens, our words become few but clear, and our presence does the rest.

When students know the rhythm of your classes, a single word, a breath, an understanding look, or even the sound of stillness can lead them deeper than a full paragraph ever could.

Through quiet presence, you help them leave behind the noise of the world and rediscover their inner calm.

As teachers, this is our practice too -
to listen to the sound of our own voice,
to feel the energy in the room,
to facilitate the natural silence to appear.

Our voice is an instrument.
Silence, as the first to exist, hosts the voice. But it is our mind to find the balanced expression to calm ourselves and teach peace of mind.

With calm and clarity,
Iris

11/11/2025

Winter affects all of us in a different way, and in Ayurveda, that’s not a surprise.
Each of us is shaped by a specific constitution, which means our bodies and minds respond differently to cold, darkness, stillness, and seasonal change.

So instead of being too hesitative and protective… We learn to live with it wisely, and even, enjoy winter.

Here’s how each dosha can stay grounded, healthy, and emotionally balanced this season:
❄️ Vata (Air & Ether)
Winter can feel harsh for Vata types - cold, dry, and unpredictable, just like their dosha.
This is the season where anxiety, loneliness, and even seasonal depression can appear.

Support Vata by:
✅ Warm, cooked, oily meals (soups, stews, root vegetables)
✅ Daily self-oil massage (sesame or almond oil)
✅ Slow, grounding, static movement or postures (yoga, gentle walks)
✅ Keeping the body and emotions warm — soft clothes, blankets, candles, supportive relationships

Avoid: raw salads, cold foods, skipping meals, overstimulation, wind exposure

🔥 Pitta (Fire & Water)
Pitta has strong inner heat, so winter is usually easier for them — but still, excess intensity can show up through irritability, inflammation, or craving spicy foods and strong stimulants.

Support Pitta by:
✅ Warm but not overly spicy meals
✅ Herbal teas like Fennel, Melisa, curcuma root and corinder seeds, green cardamon
✅ Time for quiet reflection instead of constant productivity
✅ Calming practices instead of competitive ones (reciting mantras, Ujjayi pranayama, meditation)

Avoid: too much coffee, chili, overworking, overheating indoors

🌿 Kapha (Earth & Water)
Winter is Kapha season - heavy, slow, damp. Kapha types may feel tired, gain weight easily, and lose motivation when the days are short.

Support Kapha by:
✅ Light, vibrant movement (dynamic yoga, brisk walks, dance)
✅ Warming spices (ginger, cinnamon, black pepper)
✅ Eating mindfully and light set meals till early evening
✅ Staying socially and mentally active - don’t sink into stillness

Avoid: excess dairy, gluten, napping after meals, emotional stagnation

And a simple reminder - We need to "meet winter" in a way that honors our nature, as one.

Let the winter be your teacher:
⛄ Slow down without shutting down
⛄ Warm up without burning out
⛄ Nourish without numbing

And most of all - listen inward.
Balance is an everyday practice.

With warmth,
Iris

02/11/2025

Savita Yoga Weekend is an event you can find only if you follow the profound workshops of Gejza Timčak and Ivo & Pavel Sedlaček.

These gatherings are mainly for advanced yoga practitioners and teachers who wish to deepen their learning, expand their experience, and explore how to carry the Yoga tradition forward through unique and transformative techniques.

Lucky me - I have been experiencing the magnificent Savita Yoga, led by these three brilliant and exceptionally gifted teachers, for nearly 30 years.

They have been running this program all over the world, harmoniously fusing their lifelong experience in Yoga and music.

Imagine being held for an entire weekend in a space where you are constantly aware of each cell of your body and spirit.
The live music played by these masters, using special instruments from around the world, creates a profoundly multi-dimensional effect.

This is an invitation to join us - to explore the inner frontiers through advanced pranayama, specific mantras, selected asanas, and purification methods.
It works like a magnifying lens on the self.

Several times a year, we gather for Savita Yoga across Europe.

The next event is in less than two weeks, in beautiful Prague.
You are welcome to DM me or contact Karin for details:
📞 +420 604 748 837
📧 svitak.karin@gmail.com

With love,
Iris

27/10/2025

Every morning, the sun rises - warming, nourishing, giving life ☀️
This is Surya, the outer sun, the physical light that sustains all beings, awakening photosynthesis, growth, and vitality.

When we practice Surya Namaskar, we open the body to that energy:
we warm the muscles, expand the chest, ground into the earth, and allow the sunlight to move through us, purifying and energizing.
It is a sacred dialogue between body and nature.

But there is also Savita - the generator of the light, the inner sun.
The subtle radiance that ignites quietly within, illuminating consciousness itself to turn ON.
If Surya gives us life, Savita gives us the seed of life, awakening point,
Through special practices, mantras, and awareness, we begin to recognize that the light we cherish outside is the same light that glows within.

When we connect to Savita, we align with higher dimensions of awareness.
We learn to choose light, to expand beyond the physical, into the realms of subtle harmonized energy and spiritual clarity.
This is a brilliant experience of the path from motion to meditation.

Both Surya and Savita, as two related but distinct aspect of the Sun, mentioned in the ancient Rig Veda, the visible sun that fuels our actions, and the inspiring one as source of motion and evolution.
Together, they remind us that Yoga is not only about moving energy,
but about embodying light - in life.

🌞 If you wish to explore this deeper connection between the outer and inner sun, join us soon in Prague for a "Savita Yoga Weekend Workshop" 15-16/11.
For more details contact me via email: irissalomon@yahoo.com or
WhatsApp: +421 948 124 534

With love and radiance,
Iris

16/10/2025

As yoga teachers, we spend hours holding space for others - guiding, adjusting, encouraging, offering presence and care.

But in that beautiful act of giving, we sometimes forget the most essential practice of all: our own.

We skip our cleansings, postpone our mantra chantings, and slowly drift away from the quiet center that once called us to teach.

Often I see practices without a Śavāsana, or a very short relaxation.
Relaxation isn’t a luxury, it’s the key to integration.

In Śavāsana, the practice settles into the body; movement turns into memory, breath becomes understanding and energies in the places we directed them during the moments before.

This is where the work transforms into wisdom.
Like sleep, it allows the body and mind to digest experience, and then to clear up, so that something new can enter, the new day.
When we rest, we remember.

When we return to our deep personal practice,weather it is praying, meditation or walking barefoot on the beach, we refill the well from which we give.

Teaching without practicing is like speaking without listening - eventually, the voice becomes dry.

So my dears, let our Śavāsana be sacred.
Keep your practice full with all the tools of Yoga, don't skip.

Empty yourself so you can be filled again with clarity, compassion, and the joy of simply being.

With warmth & quiet gratitude,
Iris

05/10/2025

When I guide my students into a pose, it’s never just about body alignment.
The asana is an entry point and I always wish they could truly understand that what transforms us is the energy flowing through it.

We can see each asana as a flexible vessel carrying and channeling prana.
There are five vital currents of prana moving in different directions through the body, each with its own role in nourishing, clearing, and transforming.
We should learn them, experience them, allow them to flow naturally - and, through that, come to know them more deeply:
Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana, Vyana.

When we pause within a pose, it’s not only about stillness.
It’s about listening, sensing where the energy moves.
Is it directed upwards, inwards, downwards, expanding, or circulating?

As yoga practitioners, we are invited to remember that our body is not simply in the pose.
It conducts energy.
It balances.
It heals from within.

This is where yoga moves beyond stretching or relaxation -
and becomes the subtle art of energetic awareness,
where breath and presence weave the threads of prana into harmony, health, and clarity.

Every asana holds this potential.
When we teach and practice with awareness,
we are not just shaping bodies -
we are shaping energy, consciousness, and healing.

With love and expanded energy,
Iris

25/09/2025

Each of us is shaped by nature in a unique way, with rhythms, Vasanas (tendencies), and needs that flow through our bodies, our emotions, and our choices. Ayurveda helps us recognize and honor these patterns so we can live more in tune with ourselves and with the world around us.
It starts with awareness.

If you're predominantly Vata, your creative, mobile energy needs warmth, regularity, and calm: routines that anchor, oils that nourish, and connections that help you feel safe and supported.

If you’re Pitta, you may be driven, passionate, and full of intensity, but you also need cooling, grounding rituals: gentle movement, meals that soothe instead of stimulate, time to rest and soften.

If you're more Kapha, structure and lightness are key, too much gluten, dairy, or sleep may keep you stuck, while energizing practices, dynamic breathing, and a warm, spiced meal can uplift you.

These aren't just preferences - they're guidelines for well-being. Like a master-plan for a life that fits your true nature.

Sometimes it's about simple changes: slowing down your mornings, adjusting your diet, choosing where to live based on climate and energy, or even avoiding a hot, fiery practice if you're already burning inside.

The beauty of Ayurveda is that it's not a list of rules.
It’s an invitation to explore what makes you feel most like you, to create a lifestyle that brings you back into balance, every single day.

When this balance becomes our nature then it's time to bring it to our teachings.

✨ What's one small step you’ve found that keeps you aligned?
I’d love to hear.

Love,
Iris

17/09/2025

Last month, around 200 yoga teachers from across Europe gathered for the annual EUY Congress in Zinal, Switzerland.

It was my 19th time attending.

Every time I catch that first glimpse of the village, framed by the mountain behind it, my heart skips a beat. It always feels like coming home.

What I felt most deeply this time was how truly blessed I am to be part of such an open-hearted gathering.

Before all my lifelong friends arrived - after long journeys from around the world - I had the honor of sharing a beautiful lunch and deep conversation by the Navizance River with Swami Sarvapriyananda. We quickly discovered that we have dear mutual friends across the globe.

Zinal is a quiet little village at the end of the road, surrounded by breathtaking mountain views and the kind of deep stillness that gently quiets the mind - perfect for yoga.

We don’t need to do much.
We just need to be there.

One of our favorite rituals is what we fondly call the brain spa - hours of philosophical dialogue, day and night, in our chalet, exploring endless topics that open the heart and mind.

As someone who loves to share, I usually organize a “round (or long) table” lunch or dinner with close friends and honored teachers who join our brain spa.

This year, François Lorin and Josselyn were once again our cherished guests, and we also took part in their rich workshop throughout the week (each teacher leads a 10-part workshop, often in multiple languages).

Within the wider sangha of participants, we have our own little familia, a beautiful, loving circle that holds space for one another with deep warmth.

And of course, there's Tuomo - a tradition we never skip.
We joyfully sit in the cold stream of the Navizance, chanting mantras. It's our way of letting go, releasing whatever no longer serves us. Vairagya.

I’m filled with gratitude to be part of these sanghas.
And I would love to see you with us next time.

Save the date for next year: August 16–21, 2026
Theme: Emotions in Yoga – Bhava and Rasa

See you there,
Bhava and Rasa,

Iris

07/09/2025

In our materialistic and rapid life, I find myself, often, asking the question: do I accept my life as it is? Would I change something?

It starts with the full understanding that we have to surrender to the idea: what is, should be, should happen.

It is a real task, and sometimes, it is even hard to accept, bringing up many doubts.
To wake up in the morning and take the first inhale, with awareness, it is already enough. All the rest is extra.

There’s a quiet power in saying:
This is enough.
I am enough.
Life, as it is, is enough.

Santosha, the second Niyama in the Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, invites us to dismiss our desire for "more", release the judging tendency to compare, and return to what is already here, exists, with open eyes and a grateful heart.

It’s the most clear, conscious expression of gratitude - that sees the present moment in all its imperfect beauties and gives it the highest values.

🌸 Any idea,
Any decision,
Any feeling,
Any act,
at any moment.

The more we honor them with satisfaction, the more they expand into joy.

Then, comes the question, is it an innate character in a personality, or can it be also practiced? Is it connected to humbleness, to optimism? To our doshas?

For sure, there are those gifted ones that it is "implanted" in them, naturally.
The rest have to practice.
This challenge is fulfilled if there is the will.

Santosha reminds us that contentment is a way of being.
A sacred relationship with the present and the presents it brings along.

With love and contentment,
Iris

31/08/2025

There are said to be 72,000 nadis in the subtle body.
In Ayurveda, we try to give attention to 192 of them as main energy channels -
each one a pathway of prana,
flowing like rivers through our inner landscape.
These nadis are not just “concepts.”

They’re the architecture of subtle energy -
guides our breath, involved with emotions,
elevate awareness, and provide healing
through each subtle and physical cells of the body.

🌀 When a yoga teacher understands the nadis,
Pranayama becomes more than breath control -
It becomes a tool for deep inner purification, self realization .

🌱 Just like in plants, energy moves in specific directions,
nourished with water and nutrients from root to tip,
and from the sun to leaves by photosynthesis.

We can follow that, for example, in our breath, intelligently nourishes every organ, every tissue, every layer of being.

Teaching yoga without awareness of the nadis is like
watering a garden without knowing where the roots and seeds lie,
wasting much energy in the wrong place... or I can also say: missing the point.

✨But when we do understand their existence:
We touch the untouched imbalances by practicing in those ways from yoga and ayurveda.
We restore flow and learn to direct it, to channel it.
We invite healing, a balance mode.
We should teach with that understanding.

To be aware of why we practice in a specific manare, what are the main goals, where to point our attention and how to integrate the Nadis as our guide.

Let us breathe, expand, and guide with awareness.

With love,
Iris

17/08/2025

Stress doesn’t always look like panic nor hectic.

Sometimes, it hides behind overgiving, overdoing.
Behind the endless “yes” to family, students, clients, responsibilities…
Until one day, the body speaks.

Ayurveda teaches us that stress has a doshic flavor.
It might feel like a
Vata storm: anxiety, insomnia, restlessness.
Or a Pitta fire: irritability, burnout, inflammation.
Or a Kapha stagnation: heaviness, withdrawal, fatigue.

The key, in my opinion, is awareness.
To know our constitution, our tendencies, our imbalance
and respond with compassion.

For Vata: grounding, warmth, rhythm.
For Pitta: cooling, softness, surrender.
For Kapha: stimulation, lightness, movement.

Yoga teachers often care deeply for others.
But to keep holding space, we must also tend to our own inner space.
Every practice can be a small act, a step, of self-balancing.
Every breath, a return to center.

So next time stress whispers –
listen closely. Be there and trust, as
your body and soul already know the cure.

With love and full care: care-ful,
Iris

10/08/2025

Steps Towards Liberation

If I try to describe what an Ashram is in my own words, I would say: it is a place devoted to spiritual practice, offering an environment for self-investigation and realization.

Staying in an Ashram is like stepping away from everyday life -
secluding ourselves from the rest of society, allowing space to look inside the heart.

I began my journey in Ashrams back in 1995, most of them located in Asia.

Last month, I experienced a deeply meaningful time in the ecological Ashram in Zdarec, in the Czech Republic.

Dear Jan (Honza) Hlavacek and his family have created such a beautiful place - simple, charming, and deeply rooted.
The moment I arrived, I immediately felt the balanced energy, like an ancient truth.

We enjoyed the rich program of my dear Yoga teacher, Geza Timčak, the fresh, purifying lakes surrounding the Ashram, the sounds and movements we created together, the deers that came to greet me every day after meditation and prayers, and the close, loving souls of fellow yoga friends.

We don’t have to travel far to stay in an Ashram — we can simply cherish those nearby.
The greatest mission is to discover our personal Ashram within. That is the most precious of all.

My full gratitude for the abundance that provides everything.
See you soon also in Sri Devpuriji Ashram in Zdarec u Skutče.

Filled with love,
Iris

p.s. my special gratitude also to Karin, Zuska, Martina and Jana, my dears, who provided the miracles.

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