#40 - Yoga as a Therapy - Yoga in Greece with Christina Kyparissa

Welcome to Episode #39 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Christina Kyparissa onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Greece who teaches hatha yoga, pranayama, mantra chanting, and yoga nidra. She has beautifully vibrant energy and she shared her passion for yoga as a healing tool, and as a therapeutic way of getting to know ourselves better and deal with difficulties that arise in our lives. My conversation with Christina Kyparissa, a yoga teacher from Greece was so intriguing as we talked about yoga as a therapy, as a tool to explore ourselves and to ultimately transform into our better selves. I hope that this conversation made you curious about the therapeutic elements and gifts of yoga, and about what wellness means to you. If you’re looking to tune into a podcast episode that is all about acceptance, wellness, and connection then this is the conversation for you. --> $25 Credit to join Lily for live-streamed online yoga classes Tell me more about Christina Kyparissa Christina Kyparissa is a yoga teacher from Greece who has been a student of yoga since 2011, and she became a yoga teacher in 2019. She teaches Hatha Yoga, pranayama, and yoga nidra. She leads online workshops and teaches at yoga retreats in the summers in Corfu. She lives in Thessaloniki, Greece and also works as a freelance writer. She leads weekly online yoga classes on Zoom with students from around the world. What to expect in the Yoga In Greece episode of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Christina came to yoga looking for a non-extreme, non-aggressive way to move her body. She soon realized that yoga is a powerful tool of healing. After she lost her father in 2015, her yoga practice was a place to heal and to learn to acceptance and to find peace. She teaches yoga to give back what she, herself, has gained from the practice. She wants to give her students the chance to explore themselves in a smooth way, and give them a therapeutic tool. Yoga, as a lifestyle, one of the goals is to be therapeutic so that we can find our higher selves and to actually deal with who we are, and to see ourselves transforming into our better selves. Through our conversation, Christina shared her wisdom and grace with us while also sharing what yoga in Greece is like and why Greece is a place that has captured the attention of the world for centuries. Curious? Tune into the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast to learn more about Christina, and about yoga in Greece. For the skimmers - What’s in the yoga in Greece episode? Why she teaches yoga— she feels like she’s taken so much from yoga, and she feels that it’s her turn, and her time, to give back Why teach only Hatha Yoga? Yoga is a therapy, as a tool to explore ourselves and to connect with the universe itself Through mantras, through vibrations, we can give our brain a way to get into a different mode What is wellness? Acceptance and awareness of our needs Yoga is a gift - a lifestyle you can choose in order to give yourself the chance to approach parts of yourself you may not be in touch with Learning how to enjoy the simple things Connect with Christina Kyparissa https://instagram.com/kyparissakiyoga Want more? Head on over to my website https://wildyogatribe.com/thepodcast/ Everything you need is just one click away! Check out all the resources here: https://linktr.ee/wildyogatribe