Ganesha Yoga Shala

Ganesha Yoga Shala is a a nice little sanctuary in the South of Phuket Thailand, where it is easy to focus on your yoga practice and close off your mind from daily chores and worries. The building is located in in a quiet residential lane in Rawai. It was purpose built in 2006 for small classes (10 to 15 people maximum,) where everyone is welcome to practise, from beginners to seasoned yogi's. Easy to find, just follow the pink signs from the main road, into the shala. About Yoga In the Ganesha Yoga Shala we use the Ashtanga Yoga sequence: “a moving meditation resulting in clarity and calmn ess. It maximizes body tone, detoxifies and increases all-round health, flexibility, strength and bal ance”. Waiting for the Teacher Workshops Check the picture galleries of several motivating yoga workshops that took place in the Shala: Janet Allen (March 2009), Jonathan Cagas (October 2008), Jonas Radahl (April 2008), and Jeff & Harmony Lichty (March 2007). ABOUT JULIE The word YOGA fascinated me when I first became aware of it. I was probably 15 or 16 at the time, and used to come home from school to my mother trying yoga postures on the living room rug, from a small 25 cent pocket sized book she found at a food store check out counter. She used to encourage me to join her, and we even had matching ghastly forest green leotards. The practises never lasted very long, and almost always ended in hysterical giggles. But those joy filled times with my mother set my curiosity in motion, and from then on I was very interested in India, where that fascinating word YOGA originated. It took some years, (25 actually,) before I settled into a serious yoga practise, but that time was full of crazy Asian travels, spiritual explorations, a cross cultural marriage, and motherhood, (the most intense of all yoga practises,) to finally settle here in a quiet soi (lane) in Phuket, Thailand.