People have been striving for peace and harmony since ancient times. Now two young ladies join their efforts in a project, open to those who seek inner balance. Venda Bespalova is a professional musician – she has graduated the Lyubomir Pipkov National School of Music and later on – the Pancho Vladigerov Music Academy with violin. Her adventurous spirit drove her to show the beauty of the instrument to a completely different type of audience and so she has opted for the club stage. In 2016 she decided to enter the territory of the unknown and initiated the Violin Live Flow – yoga, accompanied by live violin. During each session, held at the Amara yoga studio, Venda improvises each time with different themes on ambient, chill out and lounge music. She tells us more on the unusual type of cooperation with the studio’s manager Nadezhda Dineva.

“I contacted Nadya. It was my idea, a further development of my project”, Venda Bespalova explains. “I decided that I wanted to do yoga, presenting at the same time the violin’s beauty to a spiritual circle of people. This was a total improvisation in both spheres and something unique appears each time. This experiment is the first of its kind in Bulgaria. After several conversations with Nadya I found out that the thing exits in other parts of the world, especially in India. Somehow the inspiration came from the inside. People are really interested and the number of participants has been constantly on the rise. Some of them haven’t missed a single class. They all say they feel really good.”

Violin Live Flow helps us express ourselves in an honest, pure and free manner, says Nadya Dineva. She is also a certified tutor. Here is the story of her spiritual transformation:

“I have been doing yoga for 15 years, but I have always been interested in all processes, related to self-knowledge. I used to be a bank clerk before that due to my economics education and I felt really unhappy and unsatisfied. At one point I gave myself a long vacation, in order to find out my thing. Thus the Amara project was born with no preparation at all. Now 5 years later we have this version with Venda and I am really glad that we give something to people, offering a totally different view to yoga and classical music.”

The word Amara comes from Sanskrit, meaning eternity. Yet since the very beginning Nadya and Venda were surprised to find out that most of the participants had never done yoga before, but had decided to start with them. “Yoga means physical endurance and relaxation from all the stress of everyday life,” Nadya says and adds:

“The project is suitable for everybody. Anyone can join, simply because we don’t follow any rules or norms for this exclusive practice. The idea is to listen to our feelings, relaxing into the flow of the violin tunes. The movements are a façade for what’s coming out of us. One needs no preparation or experience, but only the will for a bit different experiment…”

English version: Zhivko Stanchev