Our vision and mission

Our goal is to support people to connect with the true essential nature and to live in tune with our inner being and heart. We offer authentic yoga classes, meditation sessions and trainings, while striving towards sustainable living.

Both Amaratva Yoga and Ananda Forest are run by Floris and Paulina, with the help of various volunteers and co-creators. We'd love to share our visions with you.

Vision of Amaratva Yoga

Amaratva Yoga offers authentic and Integral yoga in the form of classes, retreats, courses and yoga teacher trainings and is mostly based in Ananda Forest, Spain.

We have been living for over a decade in yoga retreat centers, and ashrams and have integrated teachings from different lineages and Yoga styles into our practice and teaching. These include Hridaya yoga, Bihar School of Yoga, Iyengar, and Vinyasa yoga.

Our vision is to make Yoga as accessible as possible, adapting to modern needs, while staying authentic to the tradition and holistic approach of yoga. A well balanced Hatha yoga class naturally brings us more energy, joy and should lead us towards embodying consciousness.

Vision of Ananda Forest

Ananda Forest is a Yoga and meditation retreat center. We offer retreats from April until October. Besides our own regular yoga retreats, courses and trainings, we offer the space to other facilitators to run their own retreats.

When we don't have retreats going on, mostly between November and mid April, we open our doors for campers, and we rent out our cabin(s).

Ananda Forest is a place to come home to our true nature, to reconnect with our Heart’s wisdom and to live and dive into the Yogic path. Ultimately, we see ourselves as inseparable, unchanging, undivided consciousness. In a time where we often live in the illusion of separation and conflict, we want to dedicate Ananda Forest to the recognition and living reality of Unity. We welcome people from all religions, nations, and different backgrounds, as long as there is an underlying respect.

The medicine we offer is simple, yet powerful: Being immersed in nature and it's natural rhymn, practicing yoga and meditation, eating nourishing and healthy food, being surrounded by people that lift us up, and during retreats attending a program of daily yoga, meditation and philosophy classes.

Our pillars

We would like to take you through our most important values.

Yoga and meditation

Practicing yoga and meditation is a powerful tool to realign ourselves with our center and expand our energy levels. The actions that result from a place of centeredness will naturally embody our virtues, and empower ourselves to drop whatever doesn’t serve. The more we feel centered, the less need we have to compensate for our search for happiness through consuming or buying unhealthy and unsustainable substances. Our yoga classes are based on many years of experience, passion and embodiment. Our classes are rooted in traditional Hatha yoga, and integrate several styles mixed with the intuition to adapt to the needs of various groups and indiviudals. We call it Integral Hatha yoga.

Living from the heart

We aspire to make the Heart our guide. Inside our heart, we all have an inner compass (ion), an inner knowing beyond rational knowledge, and the ability to naturally connect to what is True. The Heart is as well the bridge to go beyond our personality, roles and masks, into the Essence of live. Staying with the vibration of Beingness in the heart, frees us from all anxieties and conflict rooted in duality.

Permaculture and natural lifestyle

One of our greatest earthly joys is to see the Earth become more fertile, the trees grow, and to eat the fruits of the land. We work towards creating a food forest that can sustain us and those who visit, and find inspiration in the principles and techniques of Permaculture. Besides our human needs, we find joy in making Ananda Forest an oasis for countless birds, animals and beneficial micro-organisms. What we cannot grow ourselves, we try to buy from local producers.

Community living

In Ananda forest, we choose to return to community based living, while creating spaces of privacy and independence. Community living and fostering truthful relations is part of our inner growth and mirrors us back both our light and shadow. The project is initiated by our family (Floris,Paulina and Amba), but is welcoming people from all backgrounds that resonate with our vision to participate as a volunteer, short- or long term community member, or student in a course.

“Let come what comes, let go what goes, and see what remains.”

– Ramana Maharshi