"Subtle Strength" - Core & Central Axis
Sunday 06 september 09:00 - 12:00
The "Subtle Strength" Workshop Series Overview
Students of all levels are welcome to this in-depth workshop series, where Marija guides you toward a subtler experience of asana through deeper presence, greater sensitivity to breath and work on internal alignment. Each module covers a coherent topic and relates it to asana and/or breathing. In each module, the workshop-style exploration is combined with dedicated time for practice, in order to deepen and integrate the techniques explored. You will leave inspired to take a new lens and lighten up your practice!
Modules are interrelated, but can be taken as stand-alone as well.
Module 2: Deep Core, Central Axis, and Bandha
We focus on the deep core and its importance for breath and inner alignment. Practices for awareness, activation and strengthening of the deep core are first done separately. The subtle core activation is then worked on in the ujjayi breathing, deepening and establishing gradually a smooth flow of breath. This will encourage a very clear awareness of your central axis, and over time lead you into opening up the inhalation capacity. We approach asana with this inner alignment as a primary focus, which will help you see the logics of posture differently and discover that the bandhas emerge organically.
Embodying this in your practice is key to your twists and balancing postures, and a prerequisite for deeper backbending. The new insights are interwoven together in a regulated ujjayi-based asana practice, followed by pranayama and meditation.
Download the illustrated primary and intermediate sequences.
Module 1 — Pelvic Floor, Legs, and Exhalation
August 9th - View Module 1 details →
Note: Other modules to come. Can't make one? Let us know for our future planning.
Price
This 3-hour program is 60 Euros early-bird registration by August 30th, 75 Euros normal.
Cancellation Policy
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Early-bird rate until August 30
Style: Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga vinyasa is a hatha yoga practice transmitted to Pattabhi Jois from the great yoga master Krishnamacharya. It is for students seeking an invigorating approach that purifies, stimulates and energizes. It consists of postures practiced in a fluid rhythm with a concentrated breath, steady gaze, and internal contractions to direct vital energy. Due to the dynamic nature of this practice, one feels completely energized and purified in each cell of the body and also in the mind. Go to the Ashtanga yoga page.
Teacher: Marija Bjekovic
Marija practiced Ashtanga vinyasa yoga since 2008 under the guidance of Denise Pesch. Over time, she complemented Ashtanga with Iyengar Yoga (with Constantinos Giannetakis) and with Vinyasa Krama. This brought an understanding of how to wisely adapt the physical practice in order to emphasize strength, mobility, mental focus or healing as needed. With gradual extension to other limbs of yoga, her practice became a means to balance energy, reconnect to a state of deep inner peace, and relate to the world more meaningfully. Her teaching path started after 200 hours of Ashtanga yoga teacher training with John Scott and Lucy Crawford Scott in 2015. Over the years, she continued her studies and teaching within the lineage of Sri T. Krishnamcharya (the father of modern yoga and a pioneer in yoga therapy) through Srivatsa Ramaswami and A.G. Mohan. She is currently following an 800-hour Svastha Yoga Therapy Foundations program with A.G. Mohan and his family.
Go to Marija's page.
Location: Strassen
Yoga La Source Strassen — 143 route d'Arlon. Traditional hatha yoga in Sivananda, Ashtanga, Vinyasa Krama, Yin, Lower Back & more. Oak floors, warm ambiance, all levels welcome. Go to the Strassen page.