Saturday 23rd May: 9:00-11:30 Technical Led Asana class with Gregor Maehle (90€)
Students of all yoga styles can benefit from Gregor’s Led Asana Class. Here, Gregor will analyse the many intricate anatomical details of accessible yoga postures, while maintaining as much pace as possible. The focus will be on breaking down the various phases of entering and exiting the postures into their constituents. Performing postures safely while understanding which anatomical actions will get us deep into the asanas will prevent unnecessary energy expenditure. Through inducing precision, this format also achieves the release of conditioning and emotions lodged in bodily tissue, preparing us for the higher limbs of pranayama and meditation.
Saturday 23rd May: 13:30-16:30 The Breath of Yoga – Pranayama and Kriya workshop with Gregor Maehle (90€)
Imagine how great it would be to have a switch that, when operated, would enable you to consciously choose between your right and left brain hemispheres, intuitive and analytical intelligence, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, fight/flight reflex and rest/relaxation, and between the male and female, solar and lunar, aspects of your psyche. How great it would be if, when required, you could switch from being compassionate to doggedly determined. Or from being charged with energy to being completely relaxed within a few minutes. Or from extrovert (physically present, expressive and outgoing) to introvert (reflective and absorbing) within a short time. This switch does, in fact, exist, and it is not at all hidden. It is the prominently protruding olfactory orifice right in the middle of your face: your nose.
Pranayama includes some of the most neglected yet most powerful methods of yoga. Pranayama is the vital link that connects asana to meditation, without which the combined benefit of both cannot be harvested. Learn how to use pranayama to harmonize the doshas (humors of the body) and thus attain a state of health and balance as well as how to still the mind, enabling spiritual insight.
The kriyas are predominantly methods of purification of the body. They support the work of postures and are especially important for people who live in large cities. They aid in removing contamination from chemical, environmental, electrical, biological and electromagnetic sources.
price: single workshop 90€
special price for the day: 160€
Bio Gregor Maehle:
Gregor Maehle began his yogic practices 48 years ago. In the mid-1980s he commenced annual travels to India, where he studied with various yogic and tantric masters, traditional Indian sadhus and ascetics. He spent fourteen months in Mysore, and in 1997 was authorised to teach Ashtanga Yoga by K. Pattabhi Jois. Since then, he has branched out into researching the anatomical alignment of postures and the higher limbs of yoga.
In India Gregor also received eight months of mostly one-on-one instruction in scripture and the higher limbs of Yoga through B.N.S. Iyengar, a student of T. Krishnamacharya, and he studied Sanskrit under Professor Narayanachar and Dr Chandrasekhar. Gregor’s internationally acclaimed textbook series consisting of Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, Ashtanga Yoga: The Intermediate Series, Pranayama: The Breath of Yoga, Yoga Meditation: Through Mantra, Chakras and Kundalini to Spiritual Freedom, Samadhi The Great Freedom, How to Find Your Life’s Divine Purpose, Chakras, Drugs & Evolution and Mudras: Seals of Yoga and Bhakti: Yoga of Love – have sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 10 foreign languages. Gregor´s books are available as hardcopies, ebooks and audiobooks and additional volumes are preparation. Gregor has been invited to many countries to teach and has contributed to and been interviewed by numerous yoga magazines. On Gregor’s blog page chintamaniyoga.com/blog/ you will find over 300 articles, videos and podcasts on all aspects of yoga, which Gregor has authored together with his wife Monica.
Today Gregor teaches an anatomically sophisticated interpretation of traditional vinyasa yoga, integrated into the practice of the higher limbs in the spirit of Patanjali and T. Krishnamacharya. His zany sense of humour, his manifold personal experiences, and his vast and deep knowledge of scripture, Indian philosophies and yogic techniques combine to make his teachings applicable, relevant and easily accessible to all his students.
Sunday 24th May: 9:00-12:00 Balancing the Pelvis part I with Monica (90€)
Sunday 24th May: 14:00-17:00 Balancing the Pelvis part II with Monica (90€}
BALANCING THE PELVIS
The Seat of Yoga
The most common pain-generating problem I see in yogis stems from a torqued or twisted pelvis. Nearly everyone (if not everyone!) has one, which results in us having a functional short leg. However, it is the degree of your pelvic torsion that determines how severe the compensations of this are to the rest of your body.
Knowing how to balance your pelvis is probably the most effective preventative and therapeutic tool you can have. Our pelvis roots our spine so any imbalance here effects everything above it and also places stresses on the joints below. It especially effects the alignment and function of our spine and sacrum, our sacroiliac and hip joints and our knee joints. For example, of the 14 muscles that cross the knee joint, seven of them originate at your pelvis! The stress of a pelvic torsion is often the cause of knee pain, wear and tear and eventual injury.
In this workshop we look at the causes, the muscles involved, how we can access ourselves and others and, most importantly, how we can practically rebalance the muscles involved for a healthy pelvic balance.
Especially when seated, our pelvis is our base, our support and our connection to earth. It houses and protects our organs of procreation, digestion and elimination. Females are especially prone to pelvic stresses. Understanding and recognising the typical problems of this area both educates and empowers us to manage them and to care for and heal ourself and others. Emotionally, the balance of our pelvis enables us to create, to integrate and to let go of what is not needed.
*For this workshop you will need two yoga blocks, two tennis balls and a long sock.
price: single workshop 90€
special price for the day: 160€
Testimonials
Hi Monica, I met you in Horsham last weekend and I was so impressed with your teachings, and your kind nature, I really learnt a lot. Thank you so much for the fantastic workshop. You have really helped to raise my awareness of my body. And how much work I have to do 🤪.
Clare, UK
Thank you for a wonderful weekend. I found it totally inspiring and absolutely loved every minute. You gave me so much to think about. I’m still processing it all…
Michelle, UK
Bio Monica Gauci
Monica Gauci brings her vast knowledge and experience as a Yoga Therapist, a trained Chiropractor and 47 years of personal yoga practice to this topic.
Her work and insights as a therapist make her workshops powerfully relevant.
Her teaching is inspired by her passion to educate others to empower them to be able to heal and care for themselves.