Swamini Ma Shaktianada is the current President of the Mexican Yoga Union, Secretary of the Mexican section of the INTERNATIONAL YOGA FEDERATION, the head of the North American Council of the International Sports Yoga Federation and the founder of the new INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL YOGA FORMATION in MEXICO.
She is a disciple of Swamiji Maitreyananda and the follows the ancestral Gurukula lineage of Asuri Kapila, Aurobindo,Ramana and Sivananda, the founders of PURNA YOGA INTEGRAL® (The history of this lineage can be found below)
Swamini Ma focuses on the teaching of PURNA YOGA INTEGRAL® which comprises the following methods, techniques and styles: Kundalini Shakti yoga, Kundalini Maha yoga, Hatha yoga, Ashtanga yoga, Power Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Artistc & Sport yoga, Swara yoga, Mantra and Yantra yoga, the Science and Philosophy of Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, etc.. She teaches students of all the levels and ages, preparing instructors on both professional and vocationall levels, as teachers, Trainers and Masters, and she also gives clinics to yoga teachers.
“In our school we must cultivate the practices os Swami Sivananda,
the theories of Aurobindo and the spirituality of Ramana Maharshi”
-Swami Asuri Kapila Ramana Ashram 1936-
and… the love, pleasure and joy of Swamiji Maitreyananda.
-Swamini Ma Shaktinanada-
Swamini Ma Shaktiananda: (Selene Gómez know also as Shakti Ma) Throughout her 18 years of teaching on the island our teacher and founder, she has been the inspiration for many on the yoga path.
She has guided each of her students along the path of love, humility, awareness, services, selflessness and health, whilst teaching them to live in harmony with Nature and inviting them to connect with the marvelous Pranic energy here on the island.
Her great emphasis lies in showing each student GRATITUDE FOR LIFE and ENJOYMENT OF LIFE, living it intensely and to the full, savoring every moment, yet aware of other´s pain and also of the beauty which is present in each and every one of us.
Swamini Ma in order to foment culture, health and oriental disciplines at the island, she help to open the Centro Cultural Ixchel in Cozumel, then after she open her Yoga Center and other privet school of diffent arts an health.
She has studied under numerous teachers around the world and began her studies in the art of movement and the cultivation of the essence and energy in its various manifestations, from 9 years old she started with martial arts such as KENDO, TAICHI among others, are simultaneously studying YOGA in Great Universal fraternity between her 10 and 12 years old later in her teens she was introduce in the school Kundalini Yoga of Yogui Bhajan and Hatha Yoga. She has studied in various schools of dance as INBA, Space Theater, Dance Studio in Mexico City and Edo. Mexico. Simultaneously she learn Taichi and Kendo
At ShaktiOm Center I have found peace, tranquility, friendship and support not only to my yoga practice but to my Self. Swanimi Shaktiananda is the true essence of yoga. Motivating and supporting, she pushes the student gently to achieve his or her highest Self through yoga that trascends the classroom and the body.
If you are in Cozumel and practice or want to learn about yoga, Cozumel Yoga ShaktiOm Center is the place to go!
This past winter, I had the opportunity to practice yoga at the ShaktiOm Center in Cozumel. I was so impressed with yogini Shakti Ma; it was very strange to find this amazing teacher in Cozumel…I hope that I will be able to study some day with this beautiful yogini; she is a very gifted woman.
Shakti, te felicito por tanta sabiduria profesionalismo y conocimiento que transmites con sencillez, en tu centro de yoga encontre alivio a mis dolores de columna, paz, armonia y relajacion total yo le recomiendo a todos los que visiten la isla darse la oportunidad de asistir. Gracias por tu ayuda y paciencia, es el lugar que extrañare de la isla, espero verte pronto en cancun.