An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi...

Matias Flury, from an early age, had many health related conditions. He was born with a heart condition, was allergic to his mother’s milk and this, of course, evolved into many other illnesses. He used to get sick every month and a simple cold or flu lasted for several months. His heart problem evolved into what the doctors called a parapsistic tachycardia and he had to take medication for a long time.

He was from an early age very interested in fasting for spiritual purposes but especially after he learned he had a chronic viral hepatitis and beginning symptoms of diabetes. Since he felt the shadow of death was so close, he intensified his asana practice, fasting and meditation to heal himself.

He was born in Argentina and has lived in Costa Rica, Guatemala, India, and California. He has been studying meditation for more than 20 years beginning with his Japanese martial art teacher Sensei Shigeo Nakazato, then progressing on to the Quan Yin method with Ching Hai, and Kundalini Yoga with Anandi Ma and Deleepji. He began his indepth studies of Astanga yoga with Tim Miller in 1993.  In 1995 he went to India for 6 months and studied Ashtanga Yoga with Sri K. Pattabi Jois, Pranayama (Kriya yoga) with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and while staying at this ashram he taught yoga asana to the young Brahman students.

Matias continues his journey of Yoga with his guru Amritananda Mayi Ma, who guides him in meditation and karma yoga. He is passionate about yoga and all of its aspects and has educated himself extensively in many of the various forms.

Matias taught yoga at Scripps Hospital in San Diego for 7 years helping doctors and chemists to relieve stress, and patients to rehabilitate. He taught classes at 7 local high schools that included a rehab program for students who were quitting drugs.  He was also the yoga coordinator and worked in synchronization with the Tobacco Free Youth Foundation.  The yoga asanas and breathing exercises helped in maintaining balance and self-awareness for these recovering adolescents.

Matias assisted Tim Miller for more than 14 years with his morning Mysore style classes and substituted for Tim every time he was out of town.  He also taught Mysore and Intro to First Series classes in the Astanga Yoga Uptown Center in San Diego, Hill Crest, and Point Loma.  He has directed invigorating retreats at local hot springs, beautiful mountain settings, Costa Rica, Argentina, and on the island of Maui, Hawaii.  His love of yoga is apparent in his unique approach to teaching by working with each student at his or her individual level of experience and comfort.

In Costa Rica he designed 10 minute duration short sequences for factory workers at JACKS CO™. where they took a 10 minute break every 2 hours to perform the asanas. He was involved in a program in the National University of Costa Rica (UCR) with asthmatics. They used yoga asanas and pranayama (breath control) to reverse the asthma symptoms and attacks.

He currently works in orphanages for disabled, sexually and physically abused girls, helping them with yoga, breathing methods and by listening.

A generous percentage of all Matias' yoga workshops (in some occasions even 100% of the total income) is donated to these charitable projects.

He is involved with feeding projects for the homeless and drug addicts.

His sole purpose in life is to help and serve anyone in need, to make suffering vanish in the lives of his fellow beings, and to learn to enjoy every moment.

I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of  Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.
~Sri Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, 15:15

I am the Supersoul, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all living entities. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings.
~Sri Krishna, Bhagavad Gita 10:20

The exploration of the self is constantly happening in our daily life, whether willfully or unconscious.
Everyone's fate and providence is to apprehend the truth within one self.
The Self that sits in the hearts of all, like a ghost, summons us with care and insight.

Soul and Godhead are one: there the soul finds that she is the kingdom of God.
~Meister Eckhart (2)

1- Which style of yoga is the best?

At this point my mind went empty and I understood there is not such a thing as the best yoga system. We are all here for the evolution of consciousness, all methods and religions were created with this root purpose, each individual will benefit no matter what religion or yoga system is practiced. The problem lies when one thinks his style is better, and then he is under the claws of the ego and the real purpose is lost.
Just imagine yourself walking in the most dangerous town of your city and instead of drug dealings, crack addicts, robberies and so forth you see people sitting meditating peacefully practicing many different styles of spiritual development, would you question if they are practicing the right style? or judge people motivated by religious differences. In my opinion it is  just better to be happy  that others also are actually doing something positive, and we as a whole are evolving to a new horizon.

2- Someone else asked me which asana overwhelmed me the most and which asana I wish to accomplish and who impressed me the most.

I got lost in my thoughts searching for the right answer, and I understood that in the past there was some kind of ambition around learning the asanas that bubbled inside me like boiling water. And  I thought  that I may accomplish enlightenment faster if I learned more asanas and pranayam systems faster. But now days I feel that that fire got extinguished for good and that my only strong wish, even though I keep a daily practice, is to sit and be in peace in every situation that life presents. Here I remember a story someone told me, and this story and person really impressed me deeply.
There was a tibetan monk, Palden Gyatso, that when China invaded Tibet got imprisoned, tortured physically and mentally day and night for years with no break, his family,  fellow monks and friends got assassinated.
After he was released from prison he traveled incognito to India. The Dalai Lama arranged a meeting with him.
The Dalai Lama’s question was; “What was the worst thing you lived while in prison?”
  The Rimpoche thought for a while and replied; “The worst thing was that I almost lost my love and compassion towards my brothers and sisters from China”
If there is something that really impresses me, it is this old Rimpoche’s compassion and love for every one even towards his own torturers.