Maybe you have heard enthusiastic reports from some of our students, and now you’re thinking about starting yoga.
Well, why not? There are many reasons to get started with a yoga practice. Like martial arts, there are quite varied approaches to teaching and practicing yoga. One thing is certain, our approach to yoga is unique. We teach students ranging from total beginners to yoga instructors looking to get certified and everyone in between. They all agree there is just something different about the Exton Yoga studio. It’s the vibe, it’s the sense of community and the focus we put on each individual. Our students start with us for different reasons, but they all stay for the connection and life-long friendships they’ve developed.
Yoga is a great way to stretch and strengthen the body simultaneously. This combination is the key to moving better, looking better and feeling better. Plus, you don’t need to be flexible to get started…in fact, most people who start yoga are not!
We will coach and assist you through all of the asanas (poses) and movements (flow) so that you can progress at your own pace and the skill level that is just right for you. Since we’re focused on the individual’s achievement, you’ll have the right balance of challenge and success to ensure steady improvement and results.
Yoga doesn’t stop with physical benefits like weight loss, muscle toning, and flexibility. Regular practice will help eliminate stress and tension and is a great way to feel both invigorated and relaxed when you need it.
We offer yoga classes seven days a week and several times per day.
How to Get Started With Yoga
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Mattia Michielan is a dedicated body worker, enthusiastic philosopher, and a passionate cook who loves to spend his spare time gardening.
His teaching method is an experience by itself, merging his knowledge of the arts of yoga and massage, philosophy, and psychology. Mattia can guide each student into a very deep state of relaxation and concentration, empowering the student with his own series of postures and his own time to execute them.
It has to be said that when the goal of yoga is quite different, this practice has some side effects that need to be mentioned before you start. Each practitioner will develop a better capacity of going through adverse life situations, empowered with the understanding that each challenge comes to and for him to grow. Another common side effect of a sincere yoga practice is a stronger body and mind, improved breathing, hence improved sleep and memory.
Mattia first went to India, moved by curiosity and a feeling of attraction for that culture so far from his but yet so close to his soul. Mattia lived in Auroville, India, to work as a journalist, then moved to Bangalore to pursue a master's degree in multimedia journalism, ending after a few years practicing and studying Ashtanga Yoga with the most renowned teachers and philosophers of Mysore, India. He also has a bachelor's and two master's degrees in Western philosophy from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Studying and discovering different massage techniques was the second reason (after Ashtanga yoga) to fuel Mattia’s intensive travels in Asia. The enormous complexity of the sciences of Ayurveda and Nuad Bo Rarn—ancient Thai massage—can easily be explained with the Latin phrase mens sana in corpore sano—a healthy mind in a healthy body.In his periods of yoga studies in India, Mattia practiced under the guidance of Sharmila Desai (Ashtanga), Vijay Kumar (Ashtanga and philosophy), Arvind Pare (vedanta philosophy), Vinay Kumar (Pranavasya and pranayama), Venkatesh (traditional Hatha yoga), Manju and Sarashwathi Jois (son and daughter of Sri K. Patthabi Jois--Ashtanga Yoga) and last but not least Sri BNS Iyengar.
This is one of the last living students of Krishnamacharya, and this 98-year-young yogi is famous for teaching daily classes of asana, pranayama, yoga mudras, and philosophy for the past fifty years. Mattia was eventually blessed with the chance of assisting BNS Iyengar in some of his teaching. Mattia studied extensively in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the northern style of Thai massage. His foundations were laid studying all the levels in notable schools like Sunshine Massage School and International Thai-Massage (ITM). After extensive time studying in Chiang Mai, Mattia came to know of three of his most valuable jewels of the north: Ajarn Sinchai, Jack Chaya, and Joe Kumlee. From each of them he learned their signature style of massage: rehabilitative techniques, jap sen (nerve touch) and chi nei tsang (abdominal thai).