Ashtanga Yoga Retreat April 2024 – in German – near Munich

Grischa's Ashtanga Yoga Retreat 1-7 April near Munich

Beschreibung auf Deutsch

Experience the magic of daily practice with Grischa, the founder of Ashtanga Yoga Berlin in 2004. His retreats are known to be very intense and transformative. It may not seem easy to get up at 6 and digest 10 hours of Yogic teaching and practice every day for a whole week. But hey, we're Ashtangies, aren't we?

The goal of Grischa's retreats is to bring your Ashtanga practice to a completely different level. Key to this is linking all practice to the original definitions of Yoga as laid out in the ancient scriptures. 

You will get invaluable information to make it smoother and free from injuries. Grischa teaches a straight forward approach that allows you to directly experience the effects of the famous Ashtanga key principles, Mulabandha, Uddiyana Bandha Ujjayi Pranayama etc. More importantly we will dive deeply into understanding the true meaning of the Yogic path. Understand the magic which transforms gymnastics into a yogic (transformational) process and which awakens your inner teacher. Knowledge allows you to develop your individual practice and is also the key that allows you to tell apart meaningful guidance from the usual copy-paste pseudo-wisdom all over the place. 

Daily Schedule

We practice all key levels of Yoga every day at the retreat:

• Pranayama
  Each day starts with one hour of pranayama. Pranayama is often confused with breathing exercises for increasing lung volume, for holding the breath longer and other physical achievements.
  But how shall this "remove the covering of light" as described in the Yoga Sutra? Experience the mental transformation process which turns breathing into a yogic practice! 
• Mysore Style
  Mysore Style is the one-on-one time, when you learn how to apply the breathing principles in movement and how to apply the technical details of the alignment classes in your own practice. Grischa will help you with individual challenges in your practice, how to get rid of given injuries and the root causes of future ones. 
• Asana Research
  Similar to pranayama, Asana is widely misunderstand as a stretching and strengthening program. Nothing could be further from the nature and goals of Yoga practice.
  Waste no more time with desperately following technical advice, engaging the pelvic floor, looking for square body parts, straight lines, grabbing of toes or looking at a navels. These tools are completely pointless and unrelated to actual Yoga practice. Frustration is guaranteed from inadquate means. 
  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.
• Philosophy and Sanskrit
  Yoga cannot arise from fancy theories or gymnastics. We should learn to understand Yoga from the perspective of those who invented it thousands of years ago. 
  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?

Yoga Philosophy Special: The central scriptures of Yoga

Every retreat has a focus on specific aspects of the Yoga scriptures. In this retreat Grischa provide a high level overview of the central scriptures and how they relate to each other.
Grischa will of course cover the key texts such as Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita. But we will also campare them with rarer text such as Shankaracharya's Aparokshanubhuti and Swami Svatmaramas legendary "Hatha Yoga Pradipika".

Intro Videos to Grischa's Yoga Philosophy Teachings

Get a taste for Grischa's approach of explaining the nitty gritty details and meaning of Yoga philosophy for your daily practice: Ca. 2hr online sessions on Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad Gita and more. Only 15€.