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Come join us in a lifelong pursuit of excellence, truth, connection and joy. While many of us come from different paths, we all meet to learn from each other.

Learn all the essential elements needed to transform stuck-ness on any level to expansion, healing and personal power. Samudra is a worldwide collective network of adventurers, who share a passion for yoga, travel and surfing. We combine centuries of local experience and philosophy with international creativity. Together, we create a platform of inclusiveness. The Samudra team invites teachers, tr

Photos from Samudra's post 04/05/2026

Location: Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, los Escullos beach, Almería
Date: 2nd to 6th June

Private Room & Sharing in Teepee: 2 Spots Available

This retreat is also an adventure into joy. As regulation deepens and the nervous system stabilizes, joy arises naturally as lightness, presence, play and aliveness, not as something to chase, but as something remembered.

Held by nature and intentional guidance, this retreat is designed for anyone carrying physical or emotional tightness from stress, trauma, or the wear of daily life. You are invited to move slowly, listen deeply, and reconnect with your body as a place of trust.

What if your body is holding more than just tension?

Come with an open heart, and allow your body to tell its story.

🙏🏽🙏🏽

Anand & Laura 🌻

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100h ASHTANGA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
under Anandan Dhandapani

1-14th September 2026
The Yogi’s Garden

॥ अष्टाङ्ग-योग-शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षणम् ॥
॥ Aṣṭāṅga-yoga-śikṣaka-praśikṣaṇam ॥

• Mysore Style & Led Primary Series
• Learn hands on Adjustment
• Proper Chanting Technique & Pronunciations
• The Breath: Unlock the Keys to Healing, Growth, and Injury Prevention
• Bandhas in Backbends: Unlocking Mobility with Strength
• Inversions, Arm Balances and Handstands
• The Art of Adjustment: Refining Adjustments in Key Postures
• Learn to Float: Jump back and Jump Thought
• Ayurveda
• Balinese Water Purification Ceremony in the Temple
• Fire Rituals
• Traditional Ashtanga movie night
• Bone fire

Rooted in traditional yogic teachings.

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Pics Anand & Dinesh

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SILENCE RETREAT
Next: 8th - 11th April
(More dates in the Website)

Silence is not the absence of sound,
It’s the absence of resistance.

Silence is when we stop resisting life.
We stop resisting the here and now.
We stop resisting what shows up for us,
which may be uncomfortable, scary, or sad.

The moment you stop doing…
what you’ve been avoiding starts to arise.
And this is what most of us do,
we resist silence and we resist ourselves.

We become human doings rather than human beings.
Afraid to sit still, to be, to observe what arises.

So silence is not just the absence of sound,
but the absence of resisting reality,
resisting what is, resisting life in this moment.

And this moment may be uncomfortable.
That’s why we resist it.
That’s why we are afraid of silence.

Because silence reveals.
Silence reveals the truth of this moment.

And when we stop pushing away what is here,
the mind, over time and with practice, settles…
and silence reveals itself.

Moments from March Silence Gathering 🤍🌱

Photos from Samudra's post 22/03/2026

100 hours in BALI
ASHTANGA INTENSIVE TRAINING
a Certification under Anandan Dhandapani
Primary Series & Mysore Style

Explore the Ashtanga practice with Anandan D, an experienced practitioner with a rich
background. Anand began his Teaching Ashtanga journey in Tamil Nadu, South India. He is a practitioner under the supervision of Vijay Kumar in Mysore, he continued his studies through multiple trips to Mysore, India.

Anand is the ashtanga residente yoga teacher , with over 15 years of dedicated experience in teaching and guiding practitioners worldwide, and a life time of practice.

This Training will be host

Mysore Style & Led Primary Series
Learn hands on Adjustment
Proper Chanting Technique & Pronunciations
The Breath: Unlock the Keys to Healing, Growth, and Injury Prevention
Bandhas in Backbends: Unlocking Mobility with Strength
Inversions, Arm Balances and Handstands
The Art of Adjustment
Refining Adjustments in Key Postures
Learn to Float: Jump back and Jump Thought
Ayurveda
Balinese Water Purification Ceremony in the Temple
Fire Rituals
Traditional Ashtanga movie night
Bone fire

Comment “Ashtanga” and we will send you all the info!

06/03/2026

Comment “PRESENT” to receive a practice to cultivate presence 🙏🏽

The reminder to be present never goes out of fashion.

Life keeps moving, the mind keeps projecting, the world keeps changing…

But the doorway to clarity is always the same:
this moment.

So if you needed a reminder today, here it is.
Come back to now 🙏🏽

——-

Come to cultivate presence together in Bali, Spain or India 🙏🏽

More info www.samudra.yoga

🤍🤍🤍

05/03/2026

Padma Bakasana 🪷

A posture from the Second Series of Ashtanga Yoga Nadi Shodhana, the purification of the subtle channels.

Strength in the arms.
Stability in the bandhas.
Lightness in the breath.

Through consistent practice, the body becomes steady and the mind becomes quiet.

Practice with patience.

yoga barn bali



YogaBali

04/03/2026

This is how I’m holding things right now.

In the tradition of Vedanta, truth is understood in three layers. And I love this, because it reminds me that reality is not flat, it has depth.

Here is how it lands in me:

First, the apparent truth.
This is what we see with our eyes and feel in the moment. If someone lies, it hurts. If someone harms, it feels wrong. Cause and effect seem simple and direct. This level matters. It’s human. It’s where our ethics live. But it’s also limited because we never see the full picture.

Then, the transactional truth.
Here, things are not isolated. Everything belongs to a web of causes, conditioning, history, karma. What looks “wrong” may be part of a longer movement unfolding. This doesn’t excuse harm but it deepens understanding. Life is patterned. It is lawful. There is a larger balancing happening beyond our immediate reaction.

And finally, the absolute truth.
From this perspective, even chaos participates in evolution. Even distortion eventually reveals clarity. Nothing is outside the greater intelligence moving through existence. What seems broken may still belong to awakening.

But here is what feels important to me:

Higher truth is not an excuse to bypass responsibility.

Just because something serves a bigger unfolding doesn’t mean we abandon integrity in the human realm. We still speak honestly. We still act with care. We still choose alignment.

For me, maturity is when all three levels live together:

I act ethically in what I see.
I remain humble about what I don’t see.
And I rest in trust that life is moving toward coherence.

When those three meet, there is less reactivity… and more steadiness.

Not blind optimism.
Not moral superiority.
But embodied coherence.

And maybe in times like these, that quiet coherence is the real Dharma.

🙏🏽🙏🏽

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