Our Story

The founders of Aum Lotus, Violante Binazzi and Andrew Kay, met while staying at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in New Delhi, India. Andrew had spent the previous 10 years living and intensively studying Indian Classical music in Kolkata. Violante had just arrived in India to search for the roots of her Yoga practice after a decade of studying and working in the world of Art History. They both felt a magical connection together and envisioned uniting their energies. It wasn’t long before they started to weave their lives together and pave the path of Aum Lotus.
The desire to spread their life philosophy of “follow your beauty and creativity” far beyond the existing yoga communities has led them to travel the world offering workshops and retreats.

“We believe in a creative World, where Beauty is a force that guides the human being towards a more magical potential.”

Aum Lotus is an organisation built on the practice of yoga, vibrations, and creativity. We offer yoga retreats, workshops, and private sessions all over the world that focus on cultivating creativity through the combination of yoga, vibration, sound, colour and collective consciousness.

Creativity = Yoga x Vibration²

Andrew Kay

Integral Sonic Yoga, Sound Baths and Music Therapy, Indian Classical & Creative Improvising Musician

Andrew shares his deep knowledge and experience of music from both sides of the world in combination with his new found passion of Tibetan Singing Bowls, Sound & Vibration, Sound Healing, Yoga, Qigong, and Meditation as an holistic offering of inspiring music, penetrating sounds, and powerful vibrations which supports, inspires, and heals.  He is a trained professional musician of Western Contemporary, Jazz and Classical music, as well as Indian Classical music, as one of the first musicians in the world to perform Ragas on both the Alto Saxophone and the Tibetan Singing Bowls. In the realm of music he has worked with some of the world’s finest maestros and performed on stages and in conferences across the globe. He has also worked with a wide variety of experienced Yoga instructors and practitioners to create and develop the practice of Integral Sonic Yoga.

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Violante Binazzi

Yoga Practitioner, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Yoga for Children, Yoga for Art & Creativity, Yoga for Trauma Therapy.

Violante has been practicing yoga for over seven years and has been a certified Yoga Alliance International teacher since 2012. She specializes in Ashtanga Vinyasa as well as the connection between Yoga, Art and Education. Violante also studied Ayurveda for two years at Ayurveda International Academy in Italy, which increased her understanding and knowledge of corporeal processes in the human body and helps her in personalizing a yoga practice according to individual need.

Violante also has a degree in art history and specializes with working with children in museums. Her interest in working with kids resulted in her attaining a teacher training certificate for kids and teens from Balya Yoga in 2012. Violante believes that the combination of art and Yoga is an important instrument for an experimental education, especially for kids.

Violante continues to study and practice following the teachings of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, founder of Ashtanga yoga.

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