26 & 27 Νοεμβρίου 2011, Σεμινάριο Jivamukti Yoga & Kirtan
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th November 2011
A Jivamukti Yoga Workshop with Petros Haffenrichter
Saturday: 14:30-17:30 Balances & Inversions & 18:00-19:00 Kirtan
Sunday: 11:00-15:15 Kriya/Asana/Pranayama
Practitioners of all levels are welcome, experience in yoga is required though.
Saturday: Balances & Inversions Playshop
All Asana-practice is meant to work on an energetic level through the body layers from gross to subtle. Find a playful Sunday morning to learn and experience all kinds of challenging, inspiring and stimulating asanas. The key to balance that you will discover in this workshop is generosity. It is our tendency to "HOLD" our balance that makes it shaky and difficult. This great class for all levels explores the many ways in which we can challenge our ability to maintain a generous heart while faced with difficult circumstances.
Kirtan with Petros
Music is something moving, the proof of the Greek quote "panta rei - always flowing" And when the further ingredients are devotion and presence, something magic can happen, something that has been described by yogis as "ananda - bliss". This state is nothing far, fixed or framed. It is the state, when intuition, strength and spirit harmonize in the Now. Harmonies are the foundation of music - and so we come together to spontaneously experience, what the word itself actually describes: Harmony (Greek: Armonia: to bring together; the union of opposites to one whole). So the Greek root of the word that describes the union of opposites is nothing other than something very familiar to us: Yoga!
Sunday: Kriya/asana/pranayama
Patanjali describes the Ashtanga yoga, the eight-limbed yoga path in his Yoga-Sutras. A possible approach to an open perspective, deep understanding and the experience of our unlimited potential and creativity. The different practices allow us to slowly sharpen our focus on the unchangeable true nature of our existence, which we eventually meet within us. Due to our way of living, our diet, social conditioning - due to our definition of what's real or not (mostly given through the collective consciousness of our environment) and our perception, based upon those principles, an honest view on our own truth, covered by this veil becomes rather difficult. In this workshop we will approach parts of those practices and establish a possible connection to our great potential.
With kriyas and practices of nada-yoga (the yoga of sound) we will cleanse our koshas (body-layers) deeply - so a feeling of clarity and balance can arise. When the body, mind and breath are cleared and opened through those practices, we set the base for a dynamic, challenging asana practice. What we started with kriyas, we will continue with asana on a more subtle level. Becoming aware of the energy within us, we will then begin a journey towards our very core - through pranayama, conscious, focused breathing we eventually arrive at a point of clarity, peace and freedom. Finally, here we find total silence. A silence that doesn't occur through the outside, but arises from within, with a smile....
BIO:
Petros Haffenrichter, with Greek mother and German father learned early to embrace life as the merge of polarities. Life is always exciting, demanding, real and the state we are... so accepting all sides of this play as equally important and as a chance for growth and insight is one of the challenges we can master through the practice of Hatha yoga, which Petros teaches now for over 10 years in an open-hearted, honest, funny and challenging way.
Petros is an Advanced Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, lives, teaches and sings in Munich, Germany and gives workshops, Kirtans and retreats throughout the planet. He wants to inspire his students to do – whatever you do – in full awareness, and to do it with your heart. So we can always return to that place where – independently from outer circumstance – we always will find peace: within our hearts. Many times we’ll meet obstacles on this path: our intellect, our body, our expectations and preferences. Yoga gives us the possibility to free ourselves from these hindrances that keep us from experiencing our true nature – that, what we really are: free, wild, and full of love and joy – without conditioning, without fear. He is thankful for all teachers and circumstance that give us the chance to experience this feeling of unity, of non-separateness – to eventually learn to accept the greatest of all teachers: our life itself. Omshanti.
Costs
Before 15/11/2011
80€ full workshop or 50€ per day
After 16/11/2011
100€ full workshop or 60€ per day
Refund policy: (Please read carefully).
Up to 4 weeks before the event 50%.
Within 4 weeks prior to the event NO refunds.
Deposits are not refundable under any circumstances.
The above prices DO NOT include 23% taxes.
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