Yoga Trainer
Paris was born on 1975 in Limassol. In the year 2000 at the age of 25 he began his yoga journey. At first, he started to study from a book the Light on Yoga by B.K.S Iyengar and he used to do his practice in a forest by the beach in the afternoons.
One day a friend of him saw him doing his afternoon practice. His friend very impressed from the postures asked him if he can join him and teach him too. Paris tells his friend if you really want to practice you come here every day at 6 and I can show you whatever I know. And so they begin practicing together. Slowly even more people start to join the afternoon yoga practice that continues for the next three years.
In 2009 Paris decide to move on deeper into Yoga journey so he took his first 200 hours teacher training course in Athens by YogaWorks and trained by Anna Zorzou and Edwin Bergman, in the same year Paris return to Cyprus and open his yoga shala. In 2011 he decides to take an Ashtanga Yoga training so he went to Berlin to meet David Swenson were he studies and practice intensively the primary series of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. At 2013 in one of his trips he meets Kristina Karitinos in Crete and takes Mysore classes in her shala, in the same year Paris attend Kristina 2nd series of Ashtanga Training in Athens. His love for yoga and his thirst for learning more about Ashtanga didn’t stop there but take him back to Crete where he meets Manju Pattabhi Jois, the oldest son of Pattabhi Jois, who is recognized worldwide as the world-wise respected authority on Ashtanga Yoga. Paris is about to explore the ancient system direct from the source! A leaving Sanskrit, Asana, Pranayama, Philosophy and Vedic chanting has given now a different color to the practice, a leaving tradition began to unfold. Paris knew from the first moment that he meets his teacher, so he decides to continue his studies with Manju in different countries around Europe up to now.