La Sirena Yoga

La Sirena started with organizing and hosting yoga and spiritual retreats in her adopted home of Ecuador, and has now grown to include a Holistic Centre offering Reiki, aromatherapy, natural health products and spa services, a yoga sangha with regular classes, and spiritual, health and wellness courses and seminars.

La Sirena empezó con organización y presentación de retiros de yoga en su país adoptada de Ecuador, y ahora ha crecido para incluir un Centro Holístico que ofrece Reiki, aromaterapia, productos y servicios de salud natural y spa, una sangha de yoga con clases fijos, y cursos y talleres de espiritualidad, salud y bienestar.

La Sirena Retreats y Centro Holístico | Cdla. Los Almendros, Manta, Ecuador | 593 52 381 344 | 593 987 267 157

Sunday, 28 April 2013

PROMOCION DEL MAYO



La Sirena Centro Holístico ofrece una promoción por el mes de Mayo. Por cada terapia o servicio, se puede recibir un segundo terapia o servicio de valor igual o menos con un descuento de 50%. 


Elige dos terapias para sí mismo o comparta con una amiga o familiar.


Por ejemplo:


Terapia Reiki (valor $40) + mascarilla de limpieza y rejuvenecimiento (valor $40) = $60


Mascarilla de limpieza y rejuvenecimiento (valor $40) + aromaterapia spa de pies (valor $20) = $50


Llama para reservar su cita al 0987 267 157 o 52 381 344

Cupos limitados

Aromaterapia  Spa de Pies
$20
Con sales del mar naturales y aceites esenciales.
Desintoxicar el cuerpo, limpieza profunda de los pies, relajación, quitar estrés.
 Los beneficios de sales marinas:
  • Sales marinas no refinadas conservar todos los minerales del mar, lo que puede absorber el cuerpo
  • No aditivos químicas ni de ‘limpieza’- mejor para ti y el ambiente
  • Desintoxicación, diurética, sanación de la piel y el cuerpo
Aceites esenciales:
·         En consulta con La Sirena, elegimos los aceites que pertenecen a sus necesidades, tal como para estrés, hidratación o  renovación de la piel, desintoxicar el cuerpo, etc.
·         En una tina de pies con agua tibia, el cuerpo absorbe los aceites fácilmente por la piel además se puede inhalar los vapores para una experiencia de sanación total.

Mascarilla de limpieza y rejuvenecimiento con miel y cacao orgánico
$40
Los beneficios de cacao:
  • Alta en flavanol (anti-oxidante) que protege la piel del daño del exposición al sol y ambiente toxica
  • Rejuvenecimiento de la piel  y disminución de las arugas
  • Mantenimiento de colágeno, fortalecimiento de la piel, mejoramiento de la textura
  • Limpieza profunda y dar buen rubor
  • Huela rica!

Los beneficios de miel de abeja:
  • Anti-microbio  = anti-acné
  • Limpieza profunda (quita los puntos blancos) y hidratación
  • Anti-oxidante que protege la piel del daño del exposición al sol y ambiente toxica
  • Rejuvenecimiento de la piel  y disminución de las arugas
  • Huela rica!    

Terapia Reiki
$40
Reiki es un método de sanación natural cual usa la energía canalizada por las manos de una terapeuta para reactivar la salud y bienestar. En Reiki tradicional Usui, la línea original desde el primero Maestro, la terapeuta no se toca el cuerpo del paciente, sino se pase las manos en una serie de posiciones arriba del cuerpo. En Japonesa, Rei significa inteligencia superior universal, o Dios, y Ki significa energía (qi en Chino). La terapeuta no hace transferencia de su energía al paciente, ni se absorbe la energía del paciente. La terapeuta simplemente es un canal por la energía universal de sanación que tiene su efecto en el paciente. Una terapeuta de Reiki debe estudiar y ser iniciado por un Maestro para tener la habilidad de canalizar la energía.
Una paciente se siente relajada profundamente después de una sesión de Reiki, y también tiene la sensación de bienestar mejorado.
 
                                                                                                                                       



Monday, 22 April 2013

Yoga IS for everyone, but not everyone knows what yoga IS

Today I'd like to share my response to a wonderful article I came across online today, about how yoga as practiced by the ego centred yoga slaves in North America can be harmful to health. 

Wow, thank you for this! I am an "unqualified" yoga teacher, according to North American standards. I started a sangha over a year ago with the blessing of several "qualified" yoga instructors who reminded me that traditional yoga doesn't have certifications and professional affiliations, and as long as I don't claim to know more than I do, there is no problem with leading a sangha in yoga asanas. I have struggled with feeling like a fraud, and even discussed it with a swami at a conference, who assured me I am doing a good thing, but given the mainstream society views on the subject, it's a daily struggle. Watching the John Friend saga and the new trends like paddle board yoga and aerial or acro-yoga- which seem to me to be all about showing off your abs and physical prowess, dealing with yoga studio owners and teachers with serious ego and envy issues who are all about the money, leaving Elephant Journal because of my increasing sense of discomfort with the direction the posts were taking and the overall mentality there, and seeing the general state of yoga in North America from outside the bubble in the past few years, left me wondering if it was just me, maybe I’m the crazy one.

I have also felt increasingly distrubed over the last 2 years by the proliferation of yoga photography, with every teacher and their uncle, and even young students here in Ecuador, showing off in difficult, advanced poses and posting the pictures all over social media. It always strikes me as just wrong. Yoga is supposed to be about controlling ego, and here are all these supposed devotees of yoga showing off like kindergarten kids "look at me, look at meeeeee!!!!!" Seriously, photos of you doing a headstand outside the all night burger joint afer a night out at a club drinking and dancing? I won't even start on all that is wrong with that... But I can't bring it up with these people, because I'm not a perfect body, I don't pay ridiculous fees and devote hours and hours a week to perfecting my asanas, so who am I to say anything? I'm just the fat chick who gives very, very affordable classes full of spiritual talk to the non-perfect bodies in my neighbourhood, you know, not a REAL yoga instructor.

The core idea in my yoga teaching is that yoga is for everyone, which would seem to be the opposite of what your article is stating, but the crux of my teaching is that there are no headstands or pretzels in my sangha, ever, and that yoga is not just the asanas. We do gentle, beginnner to low intermediate asanas to help relax the body, and I stress over and over that my students are never to do anything that hurts. This stems from my experiences in North American yoga studios, in which I often left the room crying, or at the very least felt like crap, because of the body worship and comptetition among the 'perfect bodies' in their lululemon designer outfits, and the pain and limitations of my damaged body when trying to keep up with the class. My students who have studied elsewhere comment in amazement about the way I teach, stressing over and over again "slowly, little by little, don't force it, come out of the posture gently", giving step by step instructions on how to avoid injury, whereas their previous teachers have never mentioned anything like that. "No one ever told me not to put my foot on my knee in tree pose before!" "Wow, the posture is so different, so much easier, now that you have explained how to do it slowly and not hurt my back coming out of it."

On a student's first class with me, I always explain what yoga is, the meaning of the word in Sanskrit, and talk about the asanas being only a small part of yoga, contrary to the North American delusion about weight loss and perfect bodies and who has the cutest outfit. We practice pranayama and guided meditation with mantras in my classes. We talk about off the mat yoga, bringing the philosophy and spirituality - that is the real yoga- into our everyday lives to improve ourselves, and checking ego.

Yet with all this, I am viewed with distrust and disdain by the mainstream in North America, and gringo visitors to the country I practice and teach in shun me because of my lack of  "qualifications". Thank you again for exposing the truth. Yoga IS for everyone, but it is not about exercises you practice at the gym in order to have a sexier body or a better sex life, or fitting into designer clothes. It is about changing your life, becoming conscious, making yourself a better person, being of service to the world. Yoga is a SPIRITUAL PRACTICE and it's time we take it back from the egomaniacs who have hijacked it.

Namaste
La Sirena 


 
 

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

SPIRITPATH TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING RETREAT WITH LIZ RANDOL IN COSTA RICA 2013



La Sirena is very proud to be the organizer for this retreat. There are only 6 spots available, so be sure to book yours asap.

This retreat is couple and gay friendly.

 For more info on the itinerary or to book your spot, please contact lasirena@lasirenayoga.org