Workshops
In addition to the Yoga Room weekly class schedule, special yoga workshops are offered throughout the year. Run by YOGA ROOM teachers and guest teachers from abroad, these sessions typically last 2-3 hours and focus on certain aspects of yoga philosophy or asana practice. Workshops are special classes and carry a separate fee.
Spring 2019 upcoming workshops
Full workshop details
Masterclass Weekend with Aurora Bowkett
Join Aurora for a full Masterclass Weekend including 4 sessions:
Saturday April 27
10.00 am to 12.30 pm: Building Balance
Create balance on and off your mat. Working through lower body stabilisation, mobility and balance as we move to create a more grounded and integrated practice. Flow through fiery vinyasa, we will use creative transitions and intuitive movement to explore your hamstrings and hips, opening your lower body from a foundation of strength.
2.00 pm to 4.30 pm: Spinal Awakening
Learn how to gain access to your full spinal flexibility safely by engaging your whole body. Back bending is much more the simply “bending your back” – by building openness and strength in your shoulders, hips, legs and back access the full potential of your spine!
Sunday April 28
10.00 am to 12.30 pm: Arm Balances to Inversions
Arm balances and inversions can improve your mood, help your lymphatic system, increase core strength and awareness and most importantly be a huge amount of fun!
Join Aurora in this 3 hour workshop where she will help you build confidence and strength on your hands and forearms. Working with body weight drills, alignment exercises, animal movements, props and partners, you’ll walk away with an expanse of new and refined ways to your arm balances and inversions safely and with awareness.
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm: Yin & Meditation
A healing practice focused on realigning and stretching the connective tissues of the body. Students will experience long held deep stretches with the purpose of connecting with the rhythm of the breath and cultivating a meditative mind. Some pranayama, chanting and meditation will be included.
Suitable for anyone looking to stretch their bodies with little physical effort.
Open to all levels.
Tuition: Single session 40€ — Full Series 140€
Masterclass Weekend with Raj
About Raj:
Rajakumar Sathappan is a Holistic Health & Happiness (3H) coach and the founder of Hamsālaya Yoga. Raj is a self-taught yogi and a true believer of Yogic lifestyle; inspired by his grandfather to lead a healthy life, he practiced on his own for many years by reading books. Raj practises classical hatha yoga and teaches his class according to ancient yogic texts. His teaching style revolves around the overall wellness of a person and not just limited to the body. He has a unique way of blending dhyana, asana, pranayama, yoga nidra and spirituality into each class. Join Raj for a full Masterclass Weekend including 2 sessions:
Saturday May 11
10.30 am to 1 pm: Part I – Live Upside Down
Look at the world a little differently and experience the magic of Inversion! Including some inversion postures into your everyday habit can contribute to our overall wellness in many ways and specifically integrating few specific movements could enhance circulation and flexibility of spine.
Under the guidance of Raj, you will explore a very wide range of inversions from simple Uttanasana (forward-fold) to Sirsasana (supported headstand).
Sunday May 12
10.30 am to 1 pm: Part II – Four Goals (Puruṣārtha) and 4 Stages of Life (Ashrama)
Puruṣārtha literally means “object of human pursuit”. It is a key concept in Hinduism which refers to the four main goals or aims of human life. The four puruṣārthas are Dharma (righteousness, moral values), Artha (prosperity, economic values), Kāma (love, desires, psychological values) and Mokṣha (liberation, spiritual values).
Ashrama (āśrama) is one of four age-based life stages discussed in ancient and medieval era Indian texts. The four ashramas are: Brahmacharya (student), Grihastha (householder), Vanaprastha (retired) and Sannyasa (renunciation). The Ashramas system is one facet of the Dharma concept in Hinduism. It is also a component of the ethical theories in Indian philosophy, where it is combined with four proper goals of human life (Purusartha), for fulfilment, happiness and spiritual liberation.
Open to all levels, beginners are welcome!
Tuition: Single Session 40€ — Full series (2 sessions) 70€
Masterclass Weekend with Adam Hocke
Saturday June 8
10.00 am to 12.30 pm : Bigger Backbends for Everybody: Techniques for Physical and Emotional Expansion
Does advanced mean inaccessible? Do backbends really ‘open the heart?’ In this workshop, learn how to make vrishikasana (scorpion pose), natarajasana (dancer pose), and Eka Pada raja Kapotasana (full king pigeon pose) and others work for you. Develop the strength and awareness to maintain the integrity of your centre and learn modifications and propping strategies to happily enjoy these tough postures and explore their emotional resonance. This workshop is suitable for those with happy backs, some practice experience, and comfort in being upside down with the assistance of a partner or the wall.
2.00 pm to 4.30 pm: Yoga Self-Care for Everybody: Revolutionise your Practice
Are you using your yoga practice as best as you can to care for yourself, or are you just doing what the teacher tells you? In this workshop, you will find out what self-care actually is and how you can practise it in yoga through simple changes of intention and awareness in your flow and standing postures. You will explore new techniques of self-massage, no-fuss restorative postures, and simplified meditation. You will learn how to turn self-practice or any yoga class of any style, even a sweaty level 2-3, into an opportunity for care and compassion. Open to all levels.
Open to all levels.
Tuition: Single session 60€ — Full Series 100€
An urban retreat with Tryphena Chia
Sometimes you do not have to go somewhere exotic to push the reset button. This two day urban retreat is designed to help you do just that – to PAUSE. To put the rest of your life on hold for just two days, so you can nourish your physical body and your soul. We will be using Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga in our morning practices, along with pranayama, mantra chanting and meditation to complete the practice. The afternoons will be spent on yoga philosophy study, as well as mantras and meditation.
About Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga
Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga was created by Baron Baptiste. It is a vinyasa practice done in a lightly heated room. Much of the physical aspects of the Baptiste Yoga™ style are inspired by the Hatha Yoga teachings of Krishnamacharya and his students Iyengar and Desikachar, whom Baron Baptiste studied with personally from a young age.
Saturday July 6th
10.00 – 13.00: The Practice
14.15 – 17.00: Yoga Philosophy Study, Mantras, meditation, some light asana.
Sunday July 7th
10.00 – 13.00: The Practice
14.15 – 17.00: Yoga Philosophy Study, Mantras, meditation, some light asana.
Tuition: Single session 60€ — Full Series 200€
