Saturday February 6th, 2027. 10.00 – 1.00 pm (3 hours)
Fundamental Foundations: Building Stability, Cohesion and Integrity in Yoga Asana
What is your Yoga practice built on? One key foundation is the relationship to the ground, gravity and space. Every pose is a balance pose as you recruit your muscles, engage your fascia and align your bones. Discover how to align yourself in any pose using your body’s innate wisdom.
In this workshop you will :
Learn how to align yourself from the inside out
Develop techniques and skills for refined alignment
Liberate prana and energy in your body
Create structural integrity in your poses
Recruit fascial glide and slide
Explore fluid movement that’s anchored in strength and stability
Skills and practical tools to promote optimum breathing
This workshop includes a short lecture, somatic warm-up, slow vinyasa and embodied asana. Suitable for students from all streams of yoga with over one year practice.
‘Learning is movement moment to moment.’ Krishnamurti
PRICE : 65 euros VAT incl.
Saturday February 6th, 2027. 2.30 – 5.00 pm (2.5 hours)
How to Develop Perfect Posture
Picture a women gracefully balancing a jar of water on her head. To carry such a heavy weight she has to have a perfectly aligned spine and strong postural support muscles. Your back is designed to hold you up, keep you mobile, and allow you do all the things you love doing. Yet most people develop unconscious postural habits and back pain as they age. So how can you get back on track and stay there? The key is to address the root cause of the symptoms, learn how to make the unconscious conscious and retrain the nervous system.
In this workshop you will :
Learn about the three primary stress reflexes in the body – what they are – and how they influence your posture
Practice simple, easy and gentle somatic exercises for injury rehabilitation and common conditions such as forward head, kyphosis, scoliosis, neck/back pain and arthritis
Investigate the functional/embodied anatomy of your muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones and myofascial.
Enhance kinaesthetic awareness and proprioceptive feedback
Learn to pandiculate instead of stretch
Investigate sensory-motor amnesia: the nervous system response to injury, trauma, and repetitive strain
Find freedom from pain, tension and muscular contraction
Discover new found ease, flexibility, balance, co-ordination and muscle function
Refine awareness of your own posture
Create natural and impeccable alignment
Explore how somatic movements can be seamlessly incorporated into a yoga class, exercise routine, or other physical training program
Become your own somatic educator: self-sensing, self-correcting and self-healing
Experience the feeling of poise, balance, and refined alignment that somatics offers.
Suitable for students from all streams of yoga with over one year practice.
Bring a curious mind and the willingness to learn to self-care.
‘If you can sense it and feel it, you can change it.’ – Dr. Thomas Hanna
PRICE : 55 euros VAT incl.
Sunday February 7th, 2027. 10.00-1.00PM (3 hours)
Moving from the Inside Out
Your physical and energetic centre of gravity lies deep with you. In the Yoga tradition this primordial place is known as the hara. It acts like the hub of a wheel facilitating movement in all directions, while providing a stable base to move from. The connection from the core of the body outwards, and from the periphery inwards is at the heart of every yoga posture, forming the basis for integrated movement, instinctive alignment, and freely radiating breath throughout your body.
This workshop will explore your relationship to our inner GPS and how to integrate your spine, your limbs and yourself to this central hub. We’ll examine what happens when you establish a strong yet mobile core, and how the breath is the key to creating this. As you connect to your centre, you experience being moved from the inside out with lightness and ease. Asana practice evolves effortlessly, and even complex movements are instinctively understood and mastered. Beyond the physical practice, we’ll explore how working with the hara allows you align ourself mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually.
During the workshop, we’ll explore the art of vinyasa as a moving meditation, asana and posture work, breathwork, somatic or guided self-enquiry, interoception (awareness of subtle, body based feelings), and restorative yoga. There will also be short lectures to clarify the teaching and learning and address your questions.
Suitable for students with over one year of yoga practice. Bring a curious mind and a smiling heart.
‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.’ Heraclitus
PRICE : 65 euros VAT incl.
Sunday February 7th, 2027. 2.30-5.00 (2.5 hours)
Shifting Gears: Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride
Your nervous system has two modes. The ‘doing’ side sends you out into the world to work, play and be active. The ‘being’ side takes care of relaxation, recuperation and healing. Stress is what happens when your body’s instinctual ability to balance ‘being’ and ‘doing’ is overpowered. Stress shuts down your ability to sense and feel.
In this workshop you will:
Explore sensation as a tool to healing
Explore how to bring balance and steadiness to the nervous system
Cultivate active relaxation
Investigate the embodied anatomy of the nervous system and how it talks to muscles, organs, and other tissues
Learn key skills to free the spine
Free the breath to liberate the flow of prana or life-force
Refine kinaesthetic awareness, interoception and proprioception
Investigate the best tools for clarity and calm
Learn how to deeply rest and truly restore energy reserves
Embody loving-kindness, comfort and self-care
Experience ease from your head to your toes. The workshop will include a short lecture, asana, somatic movement, somatic enquiry, restorative practices, and meditation.
Suitable for students from all streams of yoga with over one year practice.
‘When we practice yoga from an interior perspective, the body becomes mindful, the mind becomes embodied.’ Donna Farhi
PRICE : 55 euros VAT incl.
FULL WEEKEND : 195 euros VAT incl.
Location : Jardins d’Emergences - Rue des Cultivateurs - 1040 Bruxelles