Our Yoga Studio in 1080 Vienna
Our Matsya Yoga Academy is a special place with a welcoming atmosphere. Here, you'll discover powerful yoga to connect with yourself. We teach a beautifully clear lineage based on classical Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Siva Tantra. - Welcome home
Come by and feel home
Our beautiful academy, Matsya Yoga Studio, is located in Josefstadt, at the heart of Vienna, 1080. We boast a lovely yoga room and all the facilities needed for daily life. We have a well-equipped kitchen, two restrooms, and a changing room. Yoga mats are also available on-site. Yoga studio courses and classes can be booked online – of course, just dropping by is always welcome ;-)
We are a place meant to be a home. The lounge and the kitchen in the yoga studio invite you to stay, and the small library inspires browsing and reading. For those attending our workshops and yoga teacher training, there's the option to stay overnight in the studio if a sleeping spot is available. Our studio is a home – in the truest sense.
Our Lineage
The core of our lineage traces back to Sri Aurobindo and his vision of Integral Yoga. Sri Aurobindo was a revolutionary, philosopher, and visionary. In 1968 Mira Alfassa founded Auroville based on Sri Aurobindo's ideas – a societal vision where continuous inner growth, perpetual inner youth, ecological sustainability, and unity with the highest ideals were to be lived.
This unity of ideals and daily life is to be facilitated through Yoga.
Ānandamayī - Chaitanyamayī - Satyamayī - Pāramī is our mantra that expresses this spirit. It is the mantra of our school, founded on this spirit, the desire to make life fuller through Yoga.
More Complete and more whole.
Our Hatha Yoga practice is based on the Yoga of Swami Vidyananda, a follower of Sri Aurobindo and also a disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Thus, in the practical aspect of our lineage, we are rooted in the tradition of Satyananda Yoga, yet with a broader philosophical basis.
At the same time, we explore the origins of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Dhirendra Brahmachari. This Yoga is static, very quiet, expansive, and beautiful.
We learn and teach meditation inspired by Kashmir Shaivism from our teacher Mark S. G. Dyczkowski, a disciple of Swami Lakshmanjoo.
Oṃ
Ānanda-mayī
Oṃ – She, the Delight
(We invoke supreme bliss)
Chaitanya-maẏī
She, the Consciousness
(We invoke supreme consciousness)
Satyā-maẏī
She, the Truth
(We invoke supreme truth)
Pāramī
She, the Supreme
(Eternally)
All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things.
Records of Yoga, Śrī Aurobindo (81.24)
