Ashtanga Yoga Enthusiast Intensive Retreat 27 Jul – 3 August 2025 near Berlin (Neustrelitz)
Overview
Grischa’s Ashtanga Retreat 2025 in German, 27 jul – 3 August (Mecklenburg)
Beschreibung auf Deutsch This 7 days intensive retreat is all about understanding a different level of practice in Ashtanga and Yoga in general. You will learn how to refine your technique, to integrate and deepen more yogic tools such as pranayama and meditation. But the true meaning is to connect your practice it to the yogic wisdom of the ancient scriptures, to awaken your inner teacher. This makes such a difference – you can’t even imagine until you experience it. Yoga cannot prosper in capitalism, the culture of selfishness and greed. We try to make a difference. You can choose any price you feel comfortable with. Wealthy practitioners are encouraged to give more. This way practitioners with lower income can also participate and we can pay our bills, too. The sliding scale starts at 0€ for people without income or other financial resources. Don’t worry, all enthusiasts are invited by heart. A culture of generosity is a gain beyond any amount of money.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")
There is no “regular price” for a retreat as this.
You will find a price slider on the booking page. Please choose at least 700€ for the intensive plus accommodation. If you have a good income, please pay at least 1000€, otherwise I cannot support poor Yoga enthusiasts any longer.
Low income, activist, caregiver, artist, single parent, etc.? Pay what you can afford. We don’t ask for proof, but please don’t take advantage of the discount just to spend the savings on things like air travel or other teachers. A low budget means a genuinely low budget.
Higher income? Please help me make yoga accessible for the greater good. I rely heavily on the income from my two annual retreats.
Questions? +49.30.48496665
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For practitioners
As usual Ashtanga practice is open are for all practitioners with prior Mysore Style experience. This training is about fascinating core principles of the Ashtanga method that should be learnt in seemingly simple poses which paves an easy path to so-called advanced postures.
For teachers
In just one week I will pass on the essence of 25 years of teaching and practice experience on asana, pranayama, philosophy and meditation. Do the same with a few other senior teachers and that is all you need to teach. This is the way we were all trained.
| 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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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!
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.
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.
Let’s understand Yoga from the perspective of those who invented it thousands of years ago.
The meaning of Yoga is not gymnastics and never was before it came to the West.
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