Maya Machawe CYA-RYTGOLD
Maya has been practicing yoga for over 30 years. As an Indian yogini, she was born to a yoga teaching tradition. She learned yoga during her childhood at the Mantra Yoga Center.
After graduating from university, she married an Iranian psychologist/yogi and that began a new era in her challenging life. She immigrated to Iran in 1984. Maya started her first yoga classes for psychiatric patients in a mental health clinic in Tehran one year later. Her job attracted high attention from physicians and psychotherapists.
She developed the new Cyclic Yoga style of teaching yoga in 1986 in cooperation with her husband. Cyclic Yoga is an art of sequencing yoga asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha and kriya techniques to maximize the health benefits and to energize body and mind. Its applicability for well-being has been the subject of various research projects.
Maya founded Payam Mehr international yoga center in 1997 in Tehran. She teaches the 8 limbs of Asthanga Yoga in Farsi and English. Her yoga classes soon became very popular and crowded with huge numbers of interested people.
Maya has been practicing yoga for over 30 years. As an Indian yogini, she was born to a yoga teaching tradition. She learned yoga during her childhood at the Mantra Yoga Center.
After graduating from university, she married an Iranian psychologist/yogi and that began a new era in her challenging life. She immigrated to Iran in 1984. Maya started her first yoga classes for psychiatric patients in a mental health clinic in Tehran one year later. Her job attracted high attention from physicians and psychotherapists.
She developed the new Cyclic Yoga style of teaching yoga in 1986 in cooperation with her husband. Cyclic Yoga is an art of sequencing yoga asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha and kriya techniques to maximize the health benefits and to energize body and mind. Its applicability for well-being has been the subject of various research projects.
Maya founded Payam Mehr international yoga center in 1997 in Tehran. She teaches the 8 limbs of Asthanga Yoga in Farsi and English. Her yoga classes soon became very popular and crowded with huge numbers of interested people.