Alexia – Alexia Siouti is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher. She has completed numerous teacher training programs and workshops in various forms of yoga with worldwide respected teachers.

She has been trained especially in yoga therapy as well as in other forms of body-mind therapy systems (Feldenkrais, Body mind centering, Pilates). In addition, she has completed a training course in spine works.

Her interest for Eastern thought and philosophies begins during her studies of Greek Philology at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Due to her longtime professional experience in dance she has a deep knowledge of anatomy and of the functions of the human body. In addition, she feels respect for the connection between body and mind and the way they interact through practice.

Over the last decade she has focused her practice and teaching on Ashtanga yoga and for the last five years she runs her own Ashtanga Yoga Shala in the center of Athens, Okto Yoga Shala Athens.

She teaches focusing on breath for the concentration of the mind and the expansion of vital energy. She also teaches focusing on alignment for the body therapy as well as on relaxation and the development of positive attitude towards life. She believes that yoga is a way experiencing life more consciously, healthily, peacefully and at the same time bringing harmony between the inner self and the world.