The Christmas Eve Danyasa™ Yoga participants represented a mix of locals and travelers from countries around the world.
What is Danyasa™ Yoga?
Danyasa™ Yoga integrates a creative fusion of vinyasa yoga and expressive dance.
Participants connect with breath, body and creative spirit as they follow Sofiah's hypnotic voice through a flowing fusion of yoga asanas, floor work and expressive movement. Danyasa™ Yoga encourages learning to listen to the body as the inner teacher, giving permission to follow kinesthetic bliss as the impetus for movements.
Danyasa™Yoga incorporates Sofiah's Bamboo Principles of Alignment, which emphasize flexibility, strength, rootedness and openness as a means to awaken the fullest expression of who you are, to ignite your passion, free your mind and embody grace.
Beginning with a vinyasa warm up, participants are then guided to explore the space off the mat and across the floor. Exploring the transitions from one asana to another with ease and grace we find new ways to move from the ground up. Yoga Asanas give us a strong movement repertoire as our foundation before flowing across the floor from the ground to mid level (lunges and downward dogs) and then to standing, working with balance as we create a continuous flow. Mimicking the organic spiral patterns that occur in nature we spiral up and down between downward dogs, chatarangas, and warrior poses into Bamboo Dancer Tree poses.
Danyasa™Yoga emphasizes always moving from a place of connection to our strength, power and grace as we follow 'kinesthetic bliss'. We learn to follow what feels good from the inside out.
Imagination holds the key to breaking out of habitual movements and opening up our minds to paint the picture of how we would like to flow through life. We imagine the space around us as a blank canvas and that we are covered in paint. We then play with painting the picture of what we are wanting to cultivate and create through our movements.
Ultimately Danyasa™ Yoga represents a fun and freeing movement meditation that opens up the creative channels to vision what we want to create in our lives.
Danyasa™ Yoga helps us to trust in our bodies and the wisdom within, knowing that we can find our own unique and authentic way of moving through the world.
Sofiah followed the practice with a beautiful and sensual firedance performance with fire fans and fire palm.
We will be offering another Candlelight Danyasa™ Yoga with Fire Dance Offering on New Years Eve from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. We hope you can join us.



