Mona Lindqvist is a  psychotherapist and yoga mentor. She started with classical Hatha yoga in the mid-80's, continued with Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in 2000 and later took up Yin yoga. In addition to yoga, she trains health workers and therapists in mind-body psychology, guided meditation and relaxation technique. In Mona's yoga teaching, she combines the many limbs of yoga, including postures, meditation, ethics and psychology, aiming at an integration of the emotional, physical, cultural and relational aspects of contemporary life. She is known for going beyond the physical alignment of yoga and into the workings of mind and habit in order to find true ease in one's body and heart and relationships.

Yoga is essential for balance and peace of mind. Yoga is a nurturing, healing and relaxing experience.

Asana is the name given to special body postures practiced in yoga. We create an environment that allows everyone to experience the ancient healing art of Yoga, regardless of age, or current physical condition. Our students learn how to overcome limitations in different aspect of their life.

Yoga brings us into balance, through physical postures, breath awareness and mental relaxation. Through the practice of Yoga, an overall state of strength, stability, peace and joy evolves into your life.

We think that what shows up in our physical body is ultimately a reflection of where our thoughts and emotions have taken us. In order to truly change and improve physical health, one must make the mind/body connection.

Yoga means union, and is a way to make this connection amongst the many aspects of your being. By becoming aware of your breath, the life energy, the Prana which sustains you, you begin to reconnect the mind to the body. When these three components come back into balance, through the process of Yoga postures, meditation and breathwork, true transformation and healing begin to take place. Consider your yoga practice as a break where you allow an internal dialogue to take place, where your mind can reconnect to sensation in the body, offer life energy into that space and cleanse out the stagnation which is a build up of stress and toxins.

We introduce our students to a kind and gentle way of rediscovering their bodies through a sequence of poses designed to work with all stages of life experience taken both from classical Hatha, from Ashtanga sequences and the peaceful Yin. If you can breathe, you can practice yoga. Yoga is non-violence, or Ahimsa, meaning there is nothing to gain through pain. We have a gentle approach.

Yoga is a combination of linking movement with breath as well as alignment and longer holds for deeper connective tissue release (Yin).

You do not need to be flexible to begin your yoga practice. With time, flexibility of both mind and body can be achieved, you just have to be willing to journey inward and outward to enjoy and explore. Life is an adventure, open yourself to the flow and let go. 

What is yoga?

The Sanskrit word yoga is translated as 'union' between mind, body and spirit.

Hatha is the traditional word to describe the physical component of yoga. In the West, Hatha has come to represent a specific style of yoga that takes a little more time moving from pose to pose. The standing poses challenge your balance and focus - the sense of where your body is in space. 


Ashtanga, which means "eight limbs" in Sanskrit, is a fast-paced, intense style of yoga. A set series of poses is performed, always in the same order. Ashtanga practice is very physically demanding because of the constant movement from one pose to the next. This movement is called flow.

Yin Yoga is one of the newer yoga styles. The name comes from the Taoistic concept of the opposites Yin and Yang. Muscles are Yang, connective tissues and joints are Yin. The idea is that Yin and Yang tissues do not respond to training in the same way, and to get improved results, all tissues need to be targeted in specific ways. Yin yoga targets the connective tissue of the hips, pelvis and lower spine. Yin postures are held three to five minutes at a time. In a Hatha yoga or Ashtanga yoga class, you may practise as many as 20 or 30 different poses. In a Yin yoga class, you may only practise a few. The emphasis is on a deeper level to increase the range of motion in the joints. Yin yoga is a great complement to Hatha and Ashtanga yoga.

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