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Laurent Sindrès

Laurent Sindrès

Laurent Sindrès is a Yogācārya. Through the practice of the different disciplines of yoga at the crossroads of Indian and Tibetan traditions, he helps those who wish to undertake the path of a personal and spiritual realization.

He teaches Rāja and Haṭha Yoga. A graduate of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers of Uttarkashi in the Himalayas and Neyyar Dam in Kerala, certified by the YCB (Indian Ministry of Yoga), he learned and practiced in the heart of ashrams in India, in contact with a living tradition combining postures, breath work and study of sacred texts. Initiated in the path of Vajrayana Buddhism, he mobilizes the secular techniques of purification and meditation specific to this path.

Certified in Sanskrit, in the history of Yoga and in Indian philosophy, he has been studying the great spiritual and religious traditions for more than 20 years: he has received theological training at the Institut Catholique de Paris and explored the Jewish and Sufi traditions. His teaching of yoga is rooted in the Indo-Tibetan traditions, but the scope of his personal research allows him to transmit from the essence of a humanity that transcends any given tradition.

Author and translator he has in particular published a translation of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra from Sanskrit.

Before teaching yoga, he was a dancer and practiced assiduously for 20 years tango and contemporary dance.
With these experiences and his knowledge of the biomechanics, he helps his students gain confidence in their abilities by establishing the foundations of an adapted and regular practice. It is on the basis of this work on the body in its physical and subtle aspects that his teaching is developed, which aims to give everyone access to the roots of the practice of yoga.

 
 

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