Ashtanga Yoga Workshop with Petri Räisänen

We are very happy to have Petri coming back to teaching this 4 days workshop in Amsterdam also this year! Petri has been one of our regular guest teachers in Amsterdam for many years and one of the primary teachers from our own Ashtanga teachers. His very open and gentle approach to Ashtanga Yoga has a very inclusive and healing effect which makes him a very unique voice within this tradition of yoga. If you have met Petri before, you know you want to practice with him again.

Program

Friday Nov 29th

7:30 - 9:15 Led class Primary Series. The traditional exact Vinyasa counting, Sanskrit asana names, and counting with a continuous rhythm guided by Petri

11.30 – 13.00 Opening Workshop | Introduction to the Healing Space in Ashtanga Yoga. Pranayama and meditation.

13.15 - 16.00 Workshop | Therapeutic and Healing Yoga Asana adjustments.The art of a mindful touch. Accessible Ashtanga Yoga. Focusing for the therapy work on the pains and tensions, releasing the sources of the stiffness. The healing adjustments are also in the attitude, willingness to help and cure. It is a kindness and compassion in action. How to create a trust and safety in the Yoga Shala. 

Saturday Nov 30th

07.30 - 9.00 or 9.00 – 10:30 | Morning Mysore style practice ( two shifts) 

12.45 – 14.15 Workshop | Breathing into the silence (based on Pranayama and mind work).We create the space for the body with the Yoga Asanas. Lengthening, stretching, rotating, twisting, pushing, pulling, balancing..Listening the breathing and sensing the energy flow inside the nadis - energy channels. Are we able to sense the holiness, the quiet force of the Universe? 

14:30 - 17:30 Workshop | Energy healing and mind work in asana adjustments and “personal practice..using the techniques of Finnish traditional folk healing and Sage Patanjali. The energy-healing techniques are based on sensing and locating the blocks in the flow of energy throughout the body. In this workshop we will lean how to "sense" the student though our nadi (energy channel) system and use that information in the asana adjustment. 

Sunday Dec 1st

07.30 - 9.00 or 9.00 – 10:30 | Morning Mysore style practice (two shifts)

12.45 – 14.15 Workshop | Positive and healing mantras. Mantras are powerful and deeply effective for the body and mind. In this workshop we are discussing about some of the ideologies behind mantras and learn how to use them as positive and healing instruments in daily life.

14:30 - 17:30 Workshop: Spirituality for the atheist, anarchist, non believers, rebels, free souls, spiritual seekers, believers and religious beings! Spirituality is connected to the sense and sensing beyond the ”normal” states of mind. Can atheist sense the god’s presence. Can a religious person be an atheist? Many spiritual leaders has been a rebels and the free souls has been dangerous for the leading religions. Discussion and meditation practice. We will also discuss Kaivalya (liberation) as a natural path for the self realization. Kaivalya is about the liberation from your ego and dissolving to Purusha (eternal soul), through discrimination between the harmful actions and liberating actions. Kaivalya is about our real nature.

Monday Dec 2nd

06.30 - 8.00 or 8.00 – 9:30 | Morning Mysore style practice ( two shifts)

Location

Yoga Circle | De Clercqstraat 66-68

Prices

Full program: €375 (€350 for Yoga Circle Members)

One day: €120

3 Morning Mysore Only: €120 (€100 for Yoga Circle Members)

Single sessions can also be booked for €40/50

** Single session tickets will open approx 1 week before the workshop starts, depending on available space. ** For members discount, please send an email to practice@yogacircle.nl to request discount code before registering.

Level

Previous experience with Ashtanga Yoga is recommended although not required. Petri will make you feel welcome no matter what your level of experience is.

Important Info for Mysore Practice:

You will have the option of choosing your own practice starting time. A link to a sign in document will be shared a few days prior to the workshop start date.