About The Event
Take a pause from the pace of everyday life and return to your body, breath, and present moment. Our Hatha Yoga sessions at Nihshreyasa, Fort Kochi offer a steady and mindful approach to yoga, combining traditional postures (asanas), breath awareness, pranayama, and periods of stillness.
Hatha Yoga is a foundational style of yoga that gives you time to explore each posture with awareness. Rather than moving quickly from one pose to another, the practice allows you to slow down, work with your breath, develop strength and flexibility, and become more aware of how your body feels.
The sessions are suitable for beginners as well as experienced practitioners. You don't need to be flexible or have previous yoga experience to participate. The focus is not on performance, but on developing a sustainable practice and learning to move with greater awareness.
What to expect
- Traditional Hatha Yoga postures
- Breath awareness and pranayama
- Steady posture holds
- Mindful movement and transitions
- Body and alignment awareness
- Periods of stillness and relaxation
A regular Hatha Yoga practice can support flexibility, strength, balance, body awareness, relaxation, and a greater sense of presence.
Yoga Teacher
Joel Joy Joseph is a Yoga teacher with extensive experience guiding students across different levels, from beginners to advanced practitioners. His teaching is grounded in traditional Yoga, with a strong foundation in yogic philosophy, asana practice, pranayama, meditation, and mindful movement. Joel trained at the Shanti Yoga School of Vedanta & Studies in Kochi, where he completed 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher training and studied under Sree Sajeevan A.M., Master. He has also trained at Sivananda Ashram, Neyyar Dam, studying Vedantic philosophy, Hatha Yoga, and traditional yogic practices. Over the years, Joel has taught yoga across Kochi, Trivandrum, Pune, Goa, and Sri Lanka, working with students from diverse backgrounds and at different stages of their practice. His experience includes Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, meditation, pranayama, and sattvic food practices. He has also assisted in conducting Hatha Yoga teacher training programmes. His approach combines the depth of traditional yoga with an accessible and supportive teaching style, helping students develop greater awareness, strength, flexibility, breath connection, and steadiness in their practice.
