Friday 13th December 2024: 18:30-20:30 Jivamukti Open XL (50€)
Whether you’re a beginner, deciphering the difference between vrksasana (tree) and sirshasana (headstand) or an advanced yogi who can put both feet behind their head, the Jivamukti Open class welcomes you, as it is open to practitioners of all levels. You work at your own pace, following the teacher’s verbal as well as hands-on guidance. Asana options will be provided for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. A typical Open class incorporates the five tenets of Jivamukti Yoga: shastra (scripture) bhakti (devotion) ahimsa (kindness) nada (music) dhyana (meditation) An Open class presents classical yoga teachings as relevant to one’s life on and off the mat, drawn from the Focus of the Month essay, supported by chanting, breath awareness, flowing vinyasa sequences, alignment exploration, hands-on assistance, relaxation and meditation. All Open classes include 14 points—asanas, meditation and spiritual teachings—in a sequence creatively designed by the teacher. Exuberant, eclectic music plays an integral role: you might practice to a shifting soundtrack of ragas, global trance, hip-hop, spoken word, George Harrison, Sting, Krishna Das, Donna de Lory, Michael Franti, Bill Laswell, Alice Coltrane and Mozart. The class is called “Open” because it is open and suitable to all levels of practitioner. Even so, beginning level students should know that there will not be much detailed “how to do” descriptions; for that a student is advised to attend a Basic or Beginner Vinyasa Class.
Saturday 14th December 2024:
10:30-12:30 Jivamukti Open XL (50€)
Whether you’re a beginner, deciphering the difference between vrksasana (tree) and sirshasana (headstand) or an advanced yogi who can put both feet behind their head, the Jivamukti Open class welcomes you, as it is open to practitioners of all levels. You work at your own pace, following the teacher’s verbal as well as hands-on guidance. Asana options will be provided for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. A typical Open class incorporates the five tenets of Jivamukti Yoga: shastra (scripture) bhakti (devotion) ahimsa (kindness) nada (music) dhyana (meditation) An Open class presents classical yoga teachings as relevant to one’s life on and off the mat, drawn from the Focus of the Month essay, supported by chanting, breath awareness, flowing vinyasa sequences, alignment exploration, hands-on assistance, relaxation and meditation. All Open classes include 14 points—asanas, meditation and spiritual teachings—in a sequence creatively designed by the teacher. Exuberant, eclectic music plays an integral role: you might practice to a shifting soundtrack of ragas, global trance, hip-hop, spoken word, George Harrison, Sting, Krishna Das, Donna de Lory, Michael Franti, Bill Laswell, Alice Coltrane and Mozart. The class is called “Open” because it is open and suitable to all levels of practitioner. Even so, beginning level students should know that there will not be much detailed “how to do” descriptions; for that a student is advised to attend a Basic or Beginner Vinyasa Class.
15:00-18:00 Asana, Pranayama & Meditation (65€)
It’s seriously not serious. But a dance with life.
Athāsane drdhe yogī vaśī hitamitāśanah Ghurūpadishtamārghena prānāyāmānsamabhyaset
Posture becoming established, the yogin, master of himself, eating salutary and moderate food, should practise Prânâyâma, as instructed by the teacher.
HYP, Swami Swatmarama
Life is force. Prana, we can hear it with and in us: The single note drone represents the breath of life. The continuous, eternal breath of GOD, which is underneath all life, hummed or sung as the syllable OM and in all the voices of all beings, winds and waves. The sound moves at the speed that the sun emerges from the horizon. Then melody appears, this music is the seed for the day. The energy involved is the energy of patience, the concept of receiving and giving back to others. To gather strength by meditation on the rising of the sun, with the sun a kin to the inner heart of all life.
Please join me on a 3-hour dive into the subtle world of prana & pranayama.
Why?
When we are engaging in an environment that stimulates our finer awareness on a sensual level, we surely experience a path of insight that leads from gross to subtle with subtle not being less clear or potent. In contrary, if we emphasise the possibility of a deeper, yet finer feeling of reality it provides an infinite journey into our own potential.
This is a human experience on all levels, if you train your sense of smell you could name the components of earth and surroundings in which a certain fruit grew. You could smell, if the conditions where dry or humid and of course much more.
This is true for all of our senses and the process of experience, which if taken as a journey is infinite, what music lies in the spheres which we are not ready or trained to listen ? What light is there that we can’t see because we are bound to a world of visual stereotypes on 10 inches in front of your face? What depth of scents, tastes and touch are we lacking as we are caught in a culture of high-dose-dopamine-penetration that doesn’t leave space for everything that is beyond the gross – high – intensity – level of nonstop-emergencies.
The culture, that has no corresponding practice to balance those modes, to translate and transform those energies in a way conducive to some sort of awakening is bound to a mere intellectual interpretation of reality – because feeling, sensuality, subtlety, patience and clarity are missing. In this reality the mind is a “computer” and the body a “machine”. The intricate magic of life broken down to categories, all this with according (evidence based) identity.
But throughout time, some beings pierced through that kind of matrix, and out of compassion left clear advice of how to sequence one’s life in order to become aware of the forces the are at work and to which we belong, as all life does. The sequence provided, included a path of how to conduct one’s individual, communal, material life to start with and further how to safely establish an environment in which realisation, the dawn of a dancing, universal consciousness can happen. This is not an achievement, but the groundwork we have to do as humans so we understand who we really are and what our purpose is in this great play. Which is not becoming more like machines, that’s for sure, even if that’s the trend in a culture unaware of it’s divine nature and an according humility towards that.
The sequence:
Yama
Niyama
Asana
PRANAYAMA
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi
18:30-20:30 Kirtan (on donation)
A universal song infinitely plays through all existence. It’s the song of divinity, of creation as a celestial celebration. This song can be heard within our hearts if we carefully listen. The notes it consists of are the divine sounds and sound-patterns. By invoking this divine mood we sanctify all our thoughts, words and deeds. Music is the Key to a deeper understanding of Life.
Petros Haffenrichter, multi-instrumetalist, singer, lifelong student and teacher of sound, movement, color and thought has produced and performed a variety of musical approaches. From world-music, electronca to modal music, through compositions for meditation and contemplation to indian devotional chanting. He has been performing with different projects all over the globe for the past 20 years.
Sunday 15th December 2024: 10:30 – 13:00 (60€): Asana & lecture: Yoga: The ancient remedy for the current dis-ease
Enrollments via our website, Mindbody App
or info@jivamuktiyogaluxembourg.com
Cancellation Policy: 48h with credit back on Mindbody account (no refund).