Our Yoga Space

Our Yoga Space is a fully equipped all weather comfortable yoga studio with mosquito nets and all you might need during the practice. Our special pride is a beautiful hardwood floor - excellent exercise surface with warm and natural feel. We also have main yoga props, mats and sitting cushions.
And most importantly, the right atmosphere!
Om Sri

Meet our Yoga Space Team

Max
(Mahimananda Nath)

Yoga and Meditation Teacher

Max has been practicing different styles of genuine yoga for 20 years. He has studied with accomplished Indian Masters and Schools including Sri Vagish Shastri (Varanasi); Swami Veda Bharati at SRSG (Himalayan Yoga Tradition, Rishikesh); Dr. Madhavan (Vivekananda Institute of Yogatherapy); Swami Vidyananda (Transformational Yoga). Received direct transmissions and initiations in Shakta tantric sampradaya lineage and Himalayan Tradition. Has completed various TTC and holds a Master of Hatha Yoga (500hrs+) and a Grand Master of Meditation.
After leaving behind a successful career in media and publishing in 2010, Max concentrated on teaching Hatha, Kriya and Raja Yoga. His approach is based on authentic traditional knowledge and synthesis, while keeping techniques simple, effective and accessible for many. Through his personal sadhana and studies he finds a deep connection of traditional Indian Systems of yogic knowledge and practice with Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Besides coordinating and teaching at Auromode Yoga Space in Auroville, Max runs a private yoga studio YogaBoka in Kotor Bay, Montenegro. Being a member of Auroville International, he represents Auroville in Montenegro.

Laure

Yoga Teacher

Laure is a 500hrs certified yoga teacher from Paramanand Yoga Institute of Indore, India. She studied traditional Hatha Yoga based on Sanskrit texts. Since then she has been teaching yoga in English, French and Flemish, mostly in France.
During her yoga class she focuses on mindfulness and body awareness and teaches asanas accessible to all in order to lead a student to peace of mind by the end of the class.
Laure is passionate about yoga, mindfulness and meditation. In other words: to anything that connects one to the present moment and to one's center. Why? Because she had a very typical fast speed corporate life in Paris for many years where she lost her center.
She has left this life to study yoga, meditation and Buddhism for about a year in Nepal and India. These teachings changed her life and relationship with herself.
She strongly believes yoga makes you and those around you better.
Laure came to Auroville in 2017 as she wanted to evolve in a spiritual environment and go deeper in her yoga practice.
Besides teaching at Auromode Yoga Space, she works at the Town Development Council of Auroville on solid waste management in the surrounding villages of Auroville.

Bala

Yoga Teacher

Balaganesh Sivaprakasam, shortly Bala, born in a village very close to Auroville, grew up in Chennai to become an Import & Supply Chain Manager, got his first experience in yoga while he was living in Amsterdam. After his return to India and practicing with wonderful teachers in Auroville, he has decided to do 200 hrs TTC in Sivananda style of Hatha yoga. He has been teaching yoga classes in Auroville since then. Besides Sivananda style, Bala has been practicing Ashtanga and Vinyasa himself for a few years. He believes that discipline of both body and mind is the only way to live a yogic way of life. He also volunteers in organic premaculture projects in Auroville and in his spare time runs a small NGO for the care of street dogs and learns the kerala martial art of Kalaripayatu.
Being a native Tamil, Bala knows a lot about local culture and spiritual traditions and is always glad to share it.

Egle

Yoga Nidra Teacher

Egle, Lithuanian began her Hatha Yoga practice at the age of 15. Being atheistic, she believed that human beings don't use their full potential and yoga can help to develop it. During the studies of philosophy in Berlin Egle discovered books of Sri Aurobindo and Satprem. She experienced a spiritual awakening and felt that for all previous years she was asleep. Integral Yoga became her path. Immediately Egle started having Out-of-Body experiences. She began her research trying to understand why, what and how to master these experiences. This research hasn't stopped and she feels it is the most interesting experience. At the age of 24 Egle discovered Auroville and lived there for 5 years. During this time she did intensive sadhana and was taught by two spiritual teachers. In Germany she began teaching Hatha and Nidra Yoga for several years and received a certificate in spiritual healing and energy medicine in 2007. Since 2016 Egle returned to Auroville and studied 2 levels of hypnosis and Prana Vidya. Presently she is working at the "Laboratory of Evolution" conducting research in the field of neuro-feedback with the main focus on different states of consciousness.

Bebe

Yoga Teacher, Thai Yoga Massage Teacher and Therapist

Bebe was born in Madrid, Spain. With a background as a classical and modern dancer, she started her career as a physical therapist in London, UK in 2000.
Bebe is a Hatha Yoga instructor certified by the Sivananda Yoga Ashram (Kerala, India, 2006) and
certificated Yoga Vinyasa Flow teacher by Sun Power Yoga (UK, 2007).
She has obtained certificates and diplomas in Traditional Thai Massage (Beginners and Advance), Reflexology, Reiki 1&2, Chi Nei Tsang (Abdominal Chi Massage), Onsite/ Acupressure Massage, Integrated CranioSacral Therapy and Osteo-Thai.
She began her studies in the art of Traditional Thai Massage during her first trip to Thailand in 2001, and since then, it has been the focus of her work. Bebe has travelled and practiced around the world in countries like Costa Rica, Mexico, India, Thailand, Sweden, England, Switzerland, Egypt, Spain... She has continued her studies through years with different teachers and masters, obtaining her teacher's authorization in 2008 from the Sunshine Massage School Network (Chiang Mai, Thailand).
Currently Bebe lives in Auroville, where she shares her work and teaches Traditional Thai Massage, as well as Vinyasa Flow and Hatha Energy Flow inspired yoga classes.
She is in grateful devotion to Mother and Sri Aurobindo for their daily life inspiration and Divine Grace.

Nadia

Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Practitioner

Nadia is Italian-Iranian, started practising yoga when she was 16 and studying ayurveda when she was 18. Since then she has never abandoned these two complementary systems of knowledge and wisdom that have shaped her entire life. Certified in Iyengar Yoga (RIMYI, Pune, India) she has studied in India with the Iyengar family and in Europe with Christian Pisano who gave her the chance to associate the asana and pranayama practice of Iyengar yoga together with non-dual Kashmiri Shaivaism or Trika and introduced her to Tantra.
Ayurveda entered her life in Italy thanks to Ayurvedic Point School of Ayurveda and Swami Joythimayananda, in India thanks to one of the most ancient ashtavaidyan families (traditional ayurvedic doctors) Nambi-Mooss in SNA Oushadhasala Thaikat Mooss, Thrissur, Kerala. Participating to Indian and international ayurveda congresses, many other specific seminars and training sessions she has been running her own yoga and ayurveda centre in Italy for a few years before coming to Auroville.
In 2015 she underwent a severe car accident that gave her the opportunity to deeply understand pain and suffering, their consequences on body-mind-spirit organism and allowed her to fully experiment the possibilities of healing from traumas through various physical techniques and spiritual schools. At the same time she meet Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Integral Yoga that gave her a new balanced perspective of life, believes and activities and brought her to Auroville.
Nadia is still dedicated to the never ending discovery of body-mind-spirit anatomy and healing process with a particular care and dedication to women's bodies and women practices in a yogic-ayurvedic-tantric perspective.

Meet our Wellness Space Team

Tatiana

Ayurvedic Massage Therapist

Her hands were becoming conscious since early childhood by playing piano. During her youth Tatiana had discovered in herself the gift of touch. For the last 14 years Tatiana has been living in Auroville, working with graphic design, very young children, and translating Sri Aurobindo.
Tatiana opened up for the realm of Ayurvedic massage and energy work with Kalyani (from Auroville), Dr. Sankar (from AyurToday, Kerala), Swami Omkar and various other sources. She aspires for a massage with a difference.

Sasha

Thai Yoga Massage Therapist

While living in Thailand for some years, Sasha started doing massage to her family and friends intuitively, repeating the movements she remembered from traditional thai masseurs. In 2013 she took Shiatsu masterclasses and studied lots of sources to improve her practice. Finally she completed a full course of Thai Yoga Massage and received a certificate by Sunshine Massage School (Chiang Mai, Thailand).
Sasha has been following Tibetan Buddhism tradition in her personal practice, and the discovery of Thai Yoga Massage (which is closely related to Buddhism in its origin) was a great match and an opportunity to benefit others.
She also has been studying the traditional system of Ayurveda at Dr. Frawley's American Institute of Vedic Studies (USA). She implements Ayurvedic principles in her Thai Yoga Massage practice.

Svetlana

Facial Treatments Therapist

Svetlana has 27 years of experience as a beauty therapist. She studied in a number of medical institutions in Ukraine, Russia and France. For the last 17 years Svetlana has been producing her signature natural creams and masks and practicing unique beauty treatments and therapies in the city of Auroville.