Online Yoga Studio
Your work is thinking.
This is the recovery.
This is yoga for people whose work is thinking. If gentle yoga leaves your mind louder, if you lie down to rest and start planning tomorrow, if you can’t switch off at 11pm, start here.
What changed
The work changed. The recovery didn’t.
Five years ago you decided based on data you needed to assemble and interpret. Business cases took longer to build, and that gave your mind time to adjust, set the scene, formulate the story behind it. Now every option arrives fully researched, at the speed the tools can produce it leading to more to weigh per decision, and more decisions in a day.
That is a real increase in load, and nothing about how we recover from it has changed.
Why a demanding practice is what recovers the mind
You tried to relax or meditate and your mind simply wouldn’t switch off, coming back to the conversation you had at 3pm.
1. Effort takes the attention.
At Mauna in Flow we start with movement. A pose hard enough to require your full attention leaves no spare capacity for other thoughts. The mind doesn’t stop immediately. It simply changes the point of focus.
2. Attention goes into the body.
Held there, repeatedly, you start noticing what you’d stopped noticing: where you brace, when your breath shortens, what your shoulders do before you consciously feel stressed.
3. Noticing becomes a skill.
This is body intelligence: the ability to read your own internal state. Researchers call it interoception, and it’s trainable.
4. You learn to regulate your nervous system.
The practical result: you notice stress when it’s at a level of 3/10 instead of 9/10, while it’s still small enough for you to manage and do something about it.
Every practice here, live or on demand, is built on those four steps.
Where to start
Two ways in
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Why Mauna in Flow
The practice for your mind
Mauna means silence in Sanskrit. In flow because we use movement, we use yoga. Every class here uses yoga and meditation as tools for developing self-knowledge and self-awareness used to quiet the mind.
“The external world may be quiet, but if internally the mind is noisy – is it really silence?”
Mauna · Sanskrit
silence · stillness · inner quiet
Rooted in Ashtanga, Hatha and pre-classical yoga, a practice for the mind as much as the body.
The Founder
Mauna in Flow is for people who want space to explore and reset the mind
Maria has been working for the finance and tech industries for 11 years and she keeps coming back to Yoga as a way to reset the brain and calm the mind.
Maria started teaching yoga in 2021 and with a total of 950h of Yoga teacher trainings in Portugal, UK and India, she created Mauna in Flow with the goal of helping people who deal with a racing mind and want to slow it down.
Mauna in Flow is inspired in the need to find a place to explore space: on the body, from your breath and in your mind. A place where time stops and you dedicate yourself only to be with yourself. Connect inwards and reset your energy.