The beginings

My name is Anna Rykowska-Grzywna. I am 60 years old and I live in Poznan. I am a teacher of Hatha Yoga by B.K.S. IYENGAR and the international teacher of Mantra Yoga by Vedic Tradition. I started pracising Hatha Yoga at the age of 50. My body was physically and emotionally in a very poor condition. I had unbearable pains in my spine and could hardly walk. At that time I found my best of all yoga techer - Mrs Dr Maria Strózyk. She was the one who showed me and tought me how to straighten my crooked bones. After 2 years on intense exercises, Conny Larsson - the international meditation teacher came to Poznan. I enrolled to his meditation course - 1st and then 2nd stage. In 2000 I graduated the course for Meditation teachers in Drawsko Pomorskie what has greatly changed my live. I took a decision about giving up my job and I put all the necessary documents to do that in a City Departement whare I have worked for 34 years.

Yoga Harmonia Center

I decided to be a Yoga teacher to hand on all my knowledge and experience, teaching other people willing to take their lives and health into their hands how to meditate and exercise. I combined these two spheres together - meditation and yoga - practised them both on myself and now I have to admit that it is a wonderful way to live. I have no longer any pains and illnesses, I get healthier, fitter and happier every day. I have no longer any pains in my spine, worries and stress forno earthly reason. Every day is for me a source of new experiences, new ideas and a strong faith that all my plans and dreams will come true, and what is most important, that they serve other people, who also want to follow my way and change their lives. There are more and more such people, this is why I decided to start my own Yoga Center which I have dreamt about for a long time. I hope everyone who seek for help, development and betterment will find it a place for him.
The school of Hatha Yoga in Dabrowskiego 27, where I had worked for last 2 years with my colleagues under the management of our teacher Maria Strózyk, gave me chance to collect experience and become independent in my work and I am most grateful for that. This year on 2nd of February I started my individual, independent work at Towarowa street in Poznan in Yoga Harmonia Center, where in the room of about 100 m2 we can all meet and pracise yoga and meditation.

Cooperation with Conny Larsson

Conny Larsson is a wonderfull person from Sweden permanently connected with my Centre. I have worked with him for 6 years. He has great, longtime experience, enormous knowledge and enormous, open for everyone heart. He devotes himself completely to his work, and in his work he gives himself totally to others, he helps anyone whoever asks. He never hides anything and always tells the truth, if he gets lost in life, he admits it without a shame. On every meeting he teaches, he reminds us that he is no Guru, he is not to be praised, adored and made an obeisance. He is one of us, he shows and teaches us how to find the right way to happiness. He takes no money. He comes to Poznan for my invitation twice a year. He leads meditation courses on various stages. I can onlyhandle the costs of his journey, stay, promotion and the place for courses.
Conny appreciates work and efforts of his students. He also learns from them. He took up the results of my work - combination of Yoga and meditation, he found them very positive and worth practising. Last year, he came to Poland for our holidays with yoga in Puszcza Zielonka and for 10 days he had a rest with us, tought and exercised asans. In November he invited me to come to holidays in Cyprus where he spend his time with his Swedish practicians, he told me to teach them Hatha Yoga. Conny Larsson, teaching us meditation by Vedic Tradition does not works out any philosophy to this. He tell us tha the only gives us mantra - the tool for our work and he teaches how to use it properly.