Elan Vita is an innovative method that incorporates well-being exercises, relaxation, breath work, meditation and Qigong; to regenerate personal health, physically, mentally and spiritually.

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Elan Vita deals directly with stress, anxiety, depression and beyond. It produces a level of clarity and fitness that gives you control of your well-being, focus and productivity. Thereby allowing you to function at a higher level, in your life, work and friendships.

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How does it work?

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Elan Vita classes include breath based mindfulness techniques that in combination guide each student to come into deeper contact with their body and mind. In simple terms, we teach how to release old behaviors that hold you back and open you to new patterns that empower individuals to be more successful and healthy. Transformed by this extraordinary training to be motivated to make a difference in the world. These simple techniques can be assimilated by all ages, abilities and walks of life.

 

What to expect:

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• Elan Vita is a simple effective practice.

• It is for everyone who desires to be in balance physically, emotionally and spiritually for their best overall health.

• Elan Vita awareness exercises put you in contact with your body and mind. Through deep relaxation, breathing, meditative practice and a simple Qigong energy circulation cleansing movement sequence.

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Elan Vita’s key focus:

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• Becoming one with oneself, respecting the inner child that lives within each of us.

• The practice is based on the principles of Love. Love of oneself, of the world we inhabit, love of our families, friends and work colleagues.

• We believe that we can move out of a fear based society to create a more loving inclusive world. Where all can have a voice, and share knowledge and understanding.

• We are respectful of all ideologies, and religions.

• Elan Vita is a system created to awaken each and every student to the Miracle of themselves. Reconnecting to what is important and what it is to be alive and present in the moment.

• Gain access to our deepest resources for living, healing and coping with stress.

• Respect for the body, improving one's image of it no matter what shape it is. 

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A few valuable quotes to further illustrate what Elan Vita aspires to impart.

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“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.” - Maya Angelou

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“Most of the shadows in this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.” - Henry David Thoreau

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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“Arriving at someplace more desirable at some future point is an illusion. There is no other time than now. This is it.” - John Kabat-Zinn

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Victor E. Frankl