2021 Zinal Online | European Union of Yoga

Guests Speakers at Online Zinal Congress 28th-29th August 2021

A link will be sent after the conferences so that people who have registered can watch them again

Saturday August 28th

9:45am-12 noon

Colette Poggi

Three thousand years of yoga, an art with a thousand variations – Meeting with seven figures of yogis and yoginis
From their origins, the practices and theories of yoga have reached us today thanks to currents of transmission that have shown uninterrupted creativity and renewal. At the heart of this profusion … Read more >>

Saturday August 28th

3:45-6 pm

Locana Sansregret

5000 years of Yoga… and Mudra, the Yoga of the fingers…
In this workshop, we will look at the history of Mudra, its origin and how it has been passed down to the present day. We will explore through some practices the symbolic and therapeutic aspects of these simple, beneficial and sacred gestures. Theory and practice will be on the agenda. Read more>>

Sunday August 29th

9:45am-12 noon

Siddharta Krishna

The Inner Way of Yoga : In this talk Siddhartha Krishna will discuss yoga beyond asanas. While asanas are a key ingredient of a healthy yogic lifestyle, there is a lot more to be explored. Asanas prepare a human being for developing the other key aspects of yoga, such as resolution of conflict, equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion and meditation. Read more >>

Sunday 29th August

5.45-9 pm

David Gordon White

Before there was “tantric sex” there was “tantric violence,” which saw tantric yogis venturing alone into cremation grounds and other fearsome landscapes in the dead of night to offer their bodies up to yoginıs and yakshinis, noisy hordes of nocturnal flesh-eating female creatures that preyed on the living and the dead. Read more>>

Every year in August the European Union of Yoga EUY organizes the International Yoga Congress in Zinal (Valais) in the heart of the Swiss Alps. The Congress has been held annually for more than four and a half decades and has always strived to preserve the authenticity of yoga traditions in Europe. The EUY is represented by 22 national yoga associations in 14 European countries. Each year, the Zinal Convention brings together between 300 and 500 participants, mostly yoga and meditation teachers, but also yoga practitioners of all ages and from around the globe.

Many prominent teachers are among the guests of honour invited each year since 1973, including Swami Satchidananda, Swami Satyananda, André Van Lysebeth, Sri Sri Sri Saccidananda, Indra Devi, T.K.V. Desikachar, A.G. Mohan, T.K. Sribhashyam, Willigis Jäger, Père Lassalle, Sogyal Rinpoche, Sri Anandi Ma, Swami Nityamuktananda, Ravi Ravindra and many others.