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I'm Irena - Soumya Devi

 

Sattva Yoga and Meditation Master Teacher, Vedic Astrologer, Reiki Master, Professional Dancer and

 

Founder of

SELF-MASTERY ACADEMY.

My mission:  

♥ To educate and inspire, to share wisdom and practices that help you to unlock your hidden potential and thrive in life.

♥ To guide sincere seekers on their way to creating conscious lifestyle and habits that help them go through their day to day life with loving awareness. 

♥ To create the environment that empowers people to know themselves beyond the conditioned mind and experience the magnificence of their truest essence. 

My first acquaintance with Yoga was far back in my teenage years when I read the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. It affected me so

deeply that even then I had the heartfelt desire to go to India and study Kriya Yoga with a living Master. At such a young age I started devoting myself daily to Yogic studies and practices.

In 1997-2000 I was initiated in all three levels of Reiki - Mikao Usui's energy healing system. Together with dedicated sadhana and self-study that brought me immense vitality and inner peace. 

After that, however, life took me in a different direction - a professional career in Ballroom dance. Despite my great love for this beautiful sport and the many successful titles that me and my dance partner and husband have won - I had this vague inner sense of constant unfulfillment and lack of meaning. My restlessness grew stronger day by day and finally led to a psychological and health crisis that grew into a divorce and deep depression…

That made me turn back to Yoga again. 

 

I enrolled in my first teacher training on Vinyasa Flow Yoga - a wonderful and very creative practice with a wide variety of Yoga asanas that you move through, guided by conscious breathing, carefully building your body’s abilities and being fully present with the sensations in each moment.

I began to practice and teach this style, with which my body began to heal and my psyche - to relax. I attended many Yoga seminars in Bulgaria and abroad, which enriched my Asana practice, but nevertheless I felt that something was missing... My inner feeling of unfulfilled potential was relieved only for a short time .

Until I "accidentally" ran into an interview with Anand Mehrotra - a young Indian Yoga Master, founder of Sattva Yoga Academy and Yoga Ashram near Rishikesh - the birthplace of Yoga, at the the Himalayas.

What he said touched me so deeply that I could recognise the voice of my own heart.

With no hesitation whatsoever, I signed up for an online course with him called The Path to Radical Self-Mastery, which was extremely impactful and healing for me.

And soon after… I already had a ticket to India and was in excited anticipation of the trip I had dreamed of 20 years before.

As soon as I stepped into Satva Yoga Academy, I felt at home. My meeting with Anandji, his presence, the wisdom and the deeply transformative practices that he shared, released and healed blockages I had accumulated over the years and took me into spiritual states that I haven’t experienced before…

And this Irena, who returned from her first training in India, could no longer live in the old way.

An inner alchemy had happened…

The experiencer was no longer the same, and the experience of the same life circumstances was completely different.

The desire to devote myself to studying and diving into the vast yogic knowledge was, and still is, so strong that it became my biggest priority. 

Many more trainings at Satva Yoga Academy followed one after another and not only...

And here I am now...

More blissful and peaceful than ever.

And at the same time, filled with immense strength, fearlessness and courage to face everything that life has to offer.

Because I learned to come home.

To the authenticity of the awakened heart. To the silence of the purified mind. To the loving and unconditionally accepting presence that is driving force all life. 

I am infinitely grateful for this ultimate technology that helps me to be a conscious co-creator of the miraculous flow that we call life… For these techniques that have given me back my freedom!

This is what I share with people…

Because everyone deserves to return home - to the strength, beauty and peace of their truest Self!

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