Ashtanga Retreat Intensive August 2025 (Brandenburg, Germany)
Overview
The practice of Ashtanga Yoga Mysore can bring about amazing first changes and exciting experiences. But all this is nothing compared to the value of true yoga practices as a fascinating tool for deep mental transformation.
In recent decades, the meaning of the term "yoga" has been completely distorted and raped as a capitalist marketing concept. Let's not be fooled and learn to understand the importance of yoga on all levels: in ethics, self-study, asana, pranayama and mental techniques.
The yogic scriptures represent the missing link between practice and meaning. This retreat provides the missing link to translate the seemingly abstract and theoretical explanations of the yoga scriptures into extremely useful tools. Not only for your daily practice, but above all for your long-term yogic path. We systematically analyze all the components of our phenomenal Ashtanga method, as well as the importance of pranayama and the vast complex of the mind according to the ancient teachings.
The Breitenteicher Mühle is the perfect place for an Ashtanga Yoga retreat like ours, which is why we have been coming back again and again since 2019. We can fully concentrate on the practice. The property is surrounded by a forest-like nature park, there is a lot of water (it's a watermill!), animals that you can hardly find anymore, everything extremely quiet and lush green. The old watermill has been beautifully reconstructed using traditional ecological materials such as clay and wood. The practice hall is very spacious and full of light, ideal for Mysore practice and workshops throughout the day. The team is super great and the food is phenomenal!
UPDATE: A spacious swimming pool with panoramic views over the fields has just surfaced (not to mention the beautiful sauna).
In this intensive course, we will discuss the most important yogic text, Patanjali's famous Yoga Sutra, as well as the core concepts of other texts such as the Bhagavad Gita. This changes everything you know about yoga and fundamentally changes all aspects of your practice – and perhaps life.
Detailed Information
Yoga for all - inclusive pricing ("pay what you can")
The "orientation price" for all Yoga sessions is 700€ (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 0€ up to 1400€.
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 include three vegan/vegetarian meals per day, paid directly to the seminar house. Please contact me if you cannot afford accommodation. We can try to find funding for you.
| 3-bed | + 570 € |
| 2-bed (separate beds) | + 600 € |
| single room | + 720 € |
| 4-bed-room | + 540 € |
| outdoor / tent | + 420 € (only available when the house is full) |
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, bandha 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.
For teachers
Learn all about the practice and teaching on asana, pranayama, philosophy and meditation. You will learn how practitioners can be assisted in a safe and precise way. You will understand how I recognize and improve various alignment patterns from the beginner to the most advanced practitioner. Every morning you can try out the patterns for yourself, integrate it with your personal background and refine your teachings skills.
Only good education matters, not numbers of hours, months or years. That’s how we all have learnt teaching. I will not press you into a teacher template or judge your teaching skills. I will not sell fake security in form of totally meaningless certificates. Your values as a teacher is yourself, your open heart and your experience. You can’t buy being a Yoga teacher.
| 6:30 | pranayama |
| 7:30 | mysore style |
| 9:30 | breakfast |
| 10:30 | yoga philosophy ashtanga practice – technique and meaning |
| 13:00 | lunch |
| 15:30 | yoga philosophy ashtanga practice – technique and meaning |
| 18:30 | dinner |
| 20:00 | meditation, sanskrit, vedic chanting |
Arrival day starts at 10:30 with an introduction to the key principles of a healthy and meaningful Ashtanga practice.
Departure day Mysore only, departure after breakfast (ca. 10:00).
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Breitenteicher Mühle
This seminar takes place at the beautiful seminar house "Breitenteicher Mühle" near Berlin. We have spent several weeks at this mill already and it is embedded in a mind-blowing setting surrounded by a little forest and lush fields inviting for walks. It's truly a little paradise - we have seen all sorts of animals and rare birds here.
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.
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.
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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