Irana Ji An Fourouli
Irana Ji An Fourouli -Yog’ratna – Senior Yoga Teacher Trainer, founder of Anapnoe Yoga®Awareness through the body and Yoga Shala Paros School of Yoga. Her experiential approach and unique style integrate breath, alignment and anatomical awareness to draw the student into their inner experience of each posture and into centering, strengthening integrally and flowing through the breath.
Irana has been teaching since the year 2001 and living and practicing Yoga for more than 27 years. She has dwelt in different lineages of yoga- Sivananda, Ashtanga, Traditional Hatha Yoga, Iyengar, Anusara, Jivamukti, Bhakti Flow, Prana Yoga, Vinyasa, Yin yoga, Scaravelli, Tantra & Kundalini Yoga. Her background as Dancer since the age of 5, Artist & Designer, her Zen Buddhist practice and Therapeutic experience infuse her lifestyle and teaching.
She has a Therapeutic approach towards the physical and emotional well being. Her knowledge of yoga, body, and mind inspire a transformational approach to yoga practice. Her experience as a Vinyasa Yoga practitioner and her background can be clearly felt in her precision, awareness of bioenergetic alignment and fluidity of movement in practice.
Irana teaches with skill and confidence. Her instruction is clear and concise. Her calm, generous and analytical teaching is loved by all, whatever their yoga experience. Exploring both traditional form and more deconstructed, natural breath inspired movement, her yoga practice is creative, grounding, powerful, compassionate and vital in healing the body-mind and the psyche. In her teaching, she accentuates the importance of discipline, patience, and endurance on the path of conscious evolution.
Senior yoga teacher and women’s wellness specialist, Irana Ji An is a Transformational Yoga instructor specialized in Transformational Yoga Therapy, Purification and Trauma and known for her ability to simplify the complex concepts of Yoga & Ayurveda in a way that makes these ancient practices available and applicable to modern-day living.
Yoga Shala Paros, her wellness coaching business, aims to inspire and educate people to transform their health through the core teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda. Irana now trains professionals all over the world with her method of health coaching, Anapnoe Yoga® Awareness Through the Body, which aims to empower people with organic, authentic behavior change. With a20 year certified experience in Personal Training, Nutrition and Yoga, Irana continues to encourage her clients to live well, be present and access the energy they have to live a healthy, productive life.
Acknowledged for her ability to blend the realms of eastern & western health in a way that makes holistic healing accessible and relevant to everyday life, Irana incorporates pranayama, mudra & mantra & meditation in all her yoga classes and workshops, as she experientially believes in the power of personal growth and transformation by experiencing the spiritual potency of these practices as conscious evolution.
Anapnoe Yoga ® awareness through the body
Yoga as a Lifestyle
Anapnoe Yoga®Awareness through the body is a path, a practice method of embodiment. Integral Yoga, Vinyasa Krama, Ayurveda, Movement, Stillness Meditation & Mindfulness as a lifestyle. Yoga as conscious evolution.
Anapnoe Yoga® is a slow, gentle, yet deeply grounding & strengthening Yoga practice that develops awareness through the body-mind, encouraging the fluidity of the spine. Through deep long breathing, we explore the divine wisdom of natural movement that lies within. Movement & breath awareness liberates one’s body-mind from deep-rooted imprints.
Within Anatomical Alignment in Traditional Asana Practice, we learn to explore our innate body wisdom and path to freedom from conditioning. In this experiential approach, Anapnoe Yoga®Awareness through the body- incorporates a Mandala of Practices: Traditional Hatha Yoga & Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga & Yin-Rasa Yoga, Transformational Yoga, Therapeutics & other scientific – ancient & modern developments & modalities.
In Anapnoe Yoga practice we become more receptive, we find our body’s natural rhythm & expression. Movement unfolds from our core – to awaken the energy of the sun at the navel center and expand outwards, in all directions. It is an Integral practice that cultivates presence through embodiment.
Sessions are rejuvenating and balancing practices (solar-lunar). The emphasis of the class is on fluidity through the breath and awareness through the senses-body. In every class, we move creatively through all groups of Asana creating full body transformation, circulation, centering & expansion. Chakra work, Pranayama, Mantra, Mudras, Yoga Nidra, Meditation & Mindfulness are integrated into the practice.
The teaching method of AnapnoeYoga® is based upon the ancient Hatha Yogic texts, which states that all fixed forms should be practiced with the aim to develop free organic movement -unfolding from within- as a necessary step in the cultivation of longevity.
The set forms and sequencing of Anapnoe Yoga –Vinyasa Krama-contain within them all groups of asana ( body positions)and movements (Standing, Pumping, Sitting, Weighing, Lying, and Bending- in all directions-(Inverting, Spiraling, Turning and Twisting) for the proper development and fluidity of the spine. All these combined with suitable rhythmic breathing, bring about the unfolding of inner-strength, harmony, and awareness of the Self.
In Chakra Vinyasa we begin with awareness through the body-mind because it’s important to start with the foundation where we understand not only how to build the yoga pose from the ground up but to release tension We learn to connect with our breath, observe our body-ming and understand the impact our thoughts have on our health, wellness, and life. Anapnoe Yoga is a yoga of awakening, an invitation to wake up, to release the tension, to move into vulnerability. To let go.
My intention is that by practicing yoga, being committed to these mindful practices and doing the deep work that’s necessary on ourselves, we may develop the empathy necessary to be more loving, more truthful and more integrated human beings, to surrender to the Divine within and recognize it within all living beings. And if we are open, to expand our perspective and understanding in a way perhaps we hadn’t been able to realize before.
Wherever you are at, the invitation is just to simply breathe and be present with your experience, to open into something else, into something new. Then this practice will allow you to step into the next aspect of your own exploration.
Anapnoe Yoga is a yoga-inspired lifestyle, for modern, active women and men. We are committed to supporting and inspiring you to Live passionate, authentic lives, loving who we are inside and out. To live your lives beyond: Soulfully.
I wish you joy. I wish you consciousness, I wish you the truth, I wish you, love,
Irana Ji An,
"Anapnoe is a Greek word that means retrieving the breath of life"
Her skills include excellency in Asana alignment, Communication skills, Physiology, Anatomy, Senior Transformational Yoga teacher, Integral Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga Master, Vinyasa Krama, Physical Yoga Therapeutics & Yoga for Arthritis, Menopause & Diabetes and Senior Meditation teacher. She is a mother and an experienced Pregnancy Yoga and Kids Yoga teacher.
Irana anchors her work on the Yogic Chakra System and Vinyasa Krama-as taught by the Indian Yoga master, Sri T. Krishnamacharya. Incorporating Integral Transformational Yoga – as taught by Sri Swami Vidyanad- she promotes Integral Transformation & Purification. Mantra, Pranayama, Yoga Nindra & Meditation and Chakra work are integrated within her practices.
Irana Trains Teachers, Coaches women, organizes and leads Certified Yoga Teacher Training at 100-Hr/200-Hr/300–Hr Modules, Transformational Yoga Experiences, Detox programs, Yoga Holidays, Training Workshops and seminars all throughout the year in Paros-Greece, Lanzarote-Canarias, India..and around the globe.
