Ashtanga Yoga Retreat June 2025 near Munich (in German)
Overview
Grischa's Ashtanga Retreat 2025 in German, 9-15 June near Munich
This week long intensive retreat is all about understanding a different level of practice in Ashtanga and Yoga in general. Refine and enhance your practice on all levels including pranayama and meditation. The yogic wisdom of the ancient scriptures will awaken your inner teacher.Β
Accommodation and the excellent food starts at 546β¬ in a double room, payable to the seminar house.
For the Yoga we kindly ask you to pay 700β¬ (regular income). Pay whatever you can afford now and pay later if possible. Wealthier practitioners contribute whatever they can so everyone can participate and we can pay our bills, too. We must not discriminate people for any reason including financial ones.Β Β
Yoga Philosophy Special: Yoga Sutra and beyond
In this retreat Grischa introduces Yoga Sutra as a central thread of all practical and theoretical questions regarding Yoga. We will also look at other central scriptures of Yoga, how they relate to each other and how they relate to your yogic path!
Detailed Information
Yoga for all - inclusive pricing ("pay what you can")
The "orientation price" for all Yoga sessions is 700, 700, 700, 700, 700β¬ (almost 40+ hours of teaching with Grischa). This is for people with a "normal" income.
Anyhow, on the next page you will find a price slider that allows you to adjust the price according to your personal financial situation from as low as 0β¬ up to 1400β¬.
Low income, activist, care worker, artist, single parent? Pay whatever you can. We are not asking for any proof, but please do not simply redirect your discount to other treats such as air travel, other teachers etc. Low budget means low budget.
Higher income? Please pay more if you can. I am extremely dependent on the income from my two annual retreats.
Questions? +49.30.48496665
Accommodation & full board
The prices below are for your bed and full board (vegan/vegetarian).
| 2 bed | + 546 β¬ |
| 2 bed with private bath | + 612 β¬ |
| single | + 648 β¬ |
| single with private bath | + 708 β¬ |
Language
Employee in Germany? Get paid extra vacation for this training. Call for info: +49.30.48496665
For practitioners
This retreat is open for all practitioners with prior Mysore Style experience. The deep understanding of breath, bandhas and good alignment taught in this training will transform every single asana and your whole practice. You will understand the root causes of all major difficulties and injuries in Yoga practice and how to overcome them with ease. Learn how to make mulabandha the true teacher from within.
Learn how to experience real pranayama, the raw experience of the pranic layer of experience beyond fumbling on the nose or holding the breath!
For teachers
Your intention is hopefully to learn the meaning of Yoga and practice it. But if you don’t know which questions to ask, how do you know your teachers can answer them if necessary?
My duty is to help you to understand the authentic tradition of Yoga as it was practiced in India for thousands of years. All questions naturally arise when we follow the teachings of the ancient yogic scriptures. No effort is wasted on that path. On the other hand all effort is wasted on a path that you don’t know, towards a goal you don’t know, that teachers may or may not know. You must ask to learn!
| 6:30 | pranayma |
| 7:30 | mysore style |
| 9:30 | breakfast |
| 10:00 | ashtanga alignment intensive |
| 12:00 | yoga sutra |
| 13:30 | lunch |
| 16:00 | yoga sutra |
| 17:00 | ashtanga alignment intensive |
| 18:30 | dinner |
| 20:00 | sanskrit and meditation |
Arrival day:
12:00 (lunch)
13:00-18:00 Introduction Sessions
18:00 Dinner
Departure day end: after breakfast (ca. 10:00).
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Holzmannstett (Bavaria, Germany)
The Ashtanga Retreat Venue Holzmannstett is a wonderful seminar house near Munich.Β
It was Italian builders who constructed the impressive Hof Holzmannstett estate around 150 years ago. After extensive renovations, a seminar house was finally opened here in the year 2000. It is situated in a stunning secluded location on a 10,000 square meter property between Grafing and Wasserburg am Inn (50 kilometers east of Munich).
Getting there: From Munich to Grafing, from Grafing with a shared cab (12 minutes, ~10 β¬ per person). We will coordinate arrival with a Telegram group. There will be two main options:
a) regional train at 8:41 from Munich, arriving in Grafing at 9:03
b) regional train at 9:41 from Munich, arriving in Grafing at 10:03
Teaching begins around 10:30 - 10:45.
Early arrival
We currently check if early arrival on Sunday is possible. Contact us for more details.
Contents
Every day starts with one hour of pranayama. Unfold a deeper understanding of the subtle qualities of prana and the nervous system day by day. Rather than blindly repeating exercises, we will trace down the the effects of pranayama in order to make the breath long and subtle, to transcend the qualities of inhaling, exhaling and holding and finally to “remove the covering of light” as described in the Yoga Sutra. Experience the mental transformation process which turns exercising the breath into a yogic practice!Β
The daily Mysore Style class is the one-on-one time, in which you learn how to link all movement in your body and nervous system to a deeply focused quality of breath. You will also understand how to apply the technical details of the asana workshop sessions in your own practice. And of course Grischa will help you to overcome individual challenges or obstacles in your practice, to get rid of given injuries and to avoid the root causes of future ones.Β
Asana is widely misunderstand as a stretching and strengthening program. Nothing could be further from the nature and goals of Yoga practice.
We will see how asana practice is transformed into a valuable component of the Yogic path. You will understand a completely different layer of the famous “bandhas” and how to use them for revealing your inner teacher in every single pose you can think of. You will understand the deep patterns of posture rather than external techniques.
Yoga can not arise from gymnastics, sanskrit names and numbers, or wishful thinking theories about Yoga. We must learn to understand Yoga from the perspective of those who invented it thousands of years ago.Β
Only lazy people try to avoid the ancient texts and want to believe they are only theoretical.
Would you really prefer uneducated teachers over educated ones? Better educated yourself to make sure!
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