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Arm Balancing Unlocked with Mirjam Haymann

Challenging yourself is fun. Take off in an exciting arm balancing workshop on Saturday afternoon, 17 May 2025.

Grow resilient and blossom – Restorative Yoga Workshop with Jasmin Khalifa

How do you stay resilient when everything around us is unstable?
Give yourself a peaceful break on Sunday afternoon, 18 May 2025, find your balance and connect with the energy of springtime lightness.

Awaken your Heart in a studio retreat setting with Natalija Fallocca Bajric

This 3-day immersion over the Pentecost weekend, from 7 to 9 June 2025, is a soulful, energizing yoga journey designed to help you shake off the grey of winter, reconnect with your energy, and meet yourself with warmth and clarity.

Ashtanga Yoga Workshop with Chiara Castellan

On Saturday afternoon, 21 June 2025 we will learn the essentials of Ashtanga Yoga to build up a strong and graceful practice. The focus will be on backbends and inversions with a subtle breath.

Kirtan Evening with the Shakti Shuttlez

On Saturday, 28 June 2025 the ‘Shakti Shuttlez’ invite you and your friends to their next uplifting Kirtan and Mantra singing at AIRYOGA.

Asana Flow, 108 Gayatri Mantra, and a Healing Yoga Nidra with Adrian Wirth and Paola Deprez

On Saturday, 28 June 2025, Adrian and Paola will accompany us on a journey, where we lose the sense of time and can let go of the tiring project of being somebody: pure Yoga, a healing reconnection with our essence.

Summer Morning Immersion with Stephen Thomas

From Monday, 30 June through Thursday, 3 July 2025, Stephen Thomas will again offer his annual Summer Immersion: Four mornings of extended practice in Asana, Pranayama and Meditation.

Ashtanga Yoga Workshops and Classes with Tim Feldmann

From Friday, 22 August through Sunday, 24 August 2025 we welcome renowned Ashtanga yoga teacher Tim Feldmann for the third time at AIRYOGA. You may look forward to five exciting sessions.

The Healing Power of Breath – A 2-Day Workshop with Sascha Delberg

On Saturday, 6 September and Sunday, 7 September 2025 we will explore the practice and science of Pranayama and discover how breath control can enrich our life and teaching.

Complimentary Opposites: Divine Female and Male Energy of Every Moment

Join world-renowned yoga teachers Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor from Tuesday, 9 to Thursday 11 September 2025 for their three-day workshop at AIRYOGA

The Art of Vinyasa with Guest Teachers Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor

On Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 September 2025, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor invite you on a two-day journey into a world of movement, relaxation and joy.
This workshop will be offered at the community center Hottingen in Zurich.

4-Day Yoga Nidra Intensive with Michele Loew

This intensive training from Thursday, 25 September to Sunday, 28 September 2025 is a deeply informative synthesis of the yoga nidra practices. We will study and practice the transformational meditative yogic tantric science of Yoga Nidra, the awakening practice of enlightened sleep.

Yin Yoga and The Five Elements – A Practice Intensive with Josh Summers

Treat yourself to four days of relaxation and be inspired by experienced Yin Yoga teacher Josh Summers and his unique holistic approach to Yin Yoga, from Thursday, 9 October through Sunday, 12 October 2025.

‘Awakening’ with Somatics, Yoga and Meditation with Guest Teacher Simon Low

This weekend of Friday, 17 to Sunday, 19 October 2025 will take you on a journey of ‘awakening’ to ease, space, improved posture, freedom from pain, and cultivation of inner-peace at a body-mind and brain-cellular level.

Mentorship for Yoga Teachers by Mirjam Haymann

In this 20-hour mentorship program with Mirjam Haymann starting on Saturday, 15 November 2025 you will receive Mirjam’s insight on how to navigate the yoga market: where and how she failed and what helped her to succeed.
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Mirjam has over 15 years of yoga teaching experience. She gives regular classes and workshops at AIRYOGA and other studios and has been on stage for many major events such as Wanderlust, Lululemon and various yoga festivals. She was co-founder of the yoga project ‘EveryDay Hero’, pre- and postnatal teacher as well as coach for women and ‘public speaker’ for a healthy and meaningful everyday life. She has three children whom she loves dearly.

For more information see her website www.mirjamhaymann.com or follow her on IG mirjamhaymann.

For Jasmin, yoga is a powerful tool to bring inner balance into everyday life, especially in difficult times. She has been teaching for over 10 years and has specialised in gentle yoga styles such as Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, and mindfulness practices that enhance balance and well-being.

Jasmin completed her first yoga teacher training at AIRYOGA in 2009, followed by the 500-hour teacher training at ISHTA Yoga. In 2020, she was trained as a Yin Yoga teacher by Josh Summers.

In addition to Yoga, Jasmin also finds deep fulfilment as a sustainability consultant and mother.

Saturday, 7 June 2025 from 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Grounding
Grounding Hatha Yoga to arrive fully in your body, calming breathwork, gentle mantras, and deep relaxation in Yoga Nidra.
Theme: From the mind to the heart.

Pentecost Sunday, 8 June 2025 from 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm: Unfolding
Energizing Hatha Yoga to awaken inner fire, breath-led flow, heart-openers, mantras, and contemplativ pauses.
Theme: Courage, joy, and lightness.

Pentecost Monday, 9 June 2025 from 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm: Integrating
A slow, spacious Hatha practice combined with Yin Yoga, cooling breathwork, mantra meditation, and a gentle closing ritual.
Theme: Openness, trust, and integration.

After this immersion, you’ll feel clearer, calmer, and more deeply connected to yourself. Your breath flows freely, your body feels grounded, and your heart is open on all levels.
With renewed energy and inner balance, you’ll step into the summer feeling strong and inspired.

Natalija’s love for yoga began the moment she first touched down in India nearly 20 years ago — a turning point that touched something deep within and sparked a lifelong daily practice. The sense of magic and deep connection she felt there continues to live on in her teaching.

Natalija teaches with presence, warmth, and precision, blending strong, mindful movement with the nourishing calm of Yin and Yang elements. Her classes offer space to return to yourself — grounded, clear, and connected.

Find out more at www.nat.yoga

When yoga practice is sustained with great diligence and dedication over a long period of time, the heat generated from it burns through bodily impurities, negative behavior patterns and painful emotions to reveal the true nature of your inner being.
We will connect with our hidden power center and find the source of energy that infuses our entire practice and life with spiritual light.

Chiara Castellan was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland and studied architecture at the ETH there. She has been practicing and studying Yoga since 1995 and teaching since 2006.

She is an authorized Level 2 Ashtanga Yoga Teacher. She travels to India each year to practice with her teacher R. Sharath Jois at the Krishna Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore. She also had the unique opportunity to assist him in his daily classes. At the Sanskrit University, she regularly furthers her studies in Yoga Philosophy, Chanting and Sanskrit. 

On her path, Chiara met eminent Yogis from the entire world who have inspired her and taught her much. In 2006 she completed the 200-hour Yoga Alliance teacher training in Zurich and in the following year the Advanced Teacher Training in Iyengar Yoga. This wisdom flows into her Ashtanga Yoga teaching.

Find more on www.chiaracastellan.com and follow Chiara on Instagram: ccastellan

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With focussing on body and breath (mindful Asana Flow) we will prepare ourselves for the 108 Gayatri Mantra we will chant together. The silence after chanting is Satchitananda. And the guided Yoga Nidra session the cherry on the cake. 
A journey where we can let go of the concept of time and the exhausting projects of being somebody. Pure Yoga, healing reconnection with the essence! 

This workshop is for everyone who likes to explore Yoga beyond the Asana.

After his masters in Environmental Science at the ETH Zürich, Adrian Wirth has explored consciousness and mind in many different ways. His way of holding space for deep explorations in a yogic manner is influenced by his knowledge of the natural sciences as well as personal experience from Yoga, Buddhist meditation and from shamanic traditions. 
Adrian completed his yoga teacher training with Remo Rittiner in Zurich. He has been teaching classes and workshops at AIRYOGA since 2007.

Paola Deprez’ curiosity about “what life is all about” brought her to pursue a scientist career until, in 2009, she quit in the search of a more holistic understanding. Since then she has been exploring the question of what life is through spiritual traditions – with Yoga, Meditation and different Shamanic approaches – and a deep connection to all hand-made, especially textiles.
Adrian and Paola have been holding space together for deeper explorations of the inner landscape of the human being since 2010.

For further information on Adrian and Paola and their work please visit www.oshadi-yoga.ch

Each day builds progressively on the last to create a complete week. The program will look at the practices in a holistic way including reviewing some philosophical perspectives to better understand how we practice.

“A thousand candles can be lit from a single flame and its life will not be shortened, likewise practice never decreases by being shared.”

Stephen Thomas is an experienced Yoga teacher and practitioner. He leads classes, Teacher Trainings, Workshops and Immersions. His teaching is rooted in the traditional Yoga practices. His philosophical background is influenced by studies in Yoga as well as Buddhism.

Stephen is a long term student of O.P. Tiwari of Kaivalyadham, India – a master in the science of Pranayama and Ayurveda. He combines that foundation with over 20 years of study and exploration in the fields of Alignment based Asana. He has spent these decades refining an evolution of practice that has spanned many years in Ashtanga Vinyasa, Anusara and his love of Iyengar’s approach. He teaches in a way that understands the value of transformation through effort and dedication without imposing Dogma. 

Stephen teaches at his own studio, SVARUPA in Bern and as a senior teacher at AIRYOGA in Zurich. He is a father and dedicates his time to family life, writing, documenting and researching Yoga. He also works one-on-one with many students and helps to mentor teachers in the community.

For more information please also check out www.svarupa.com


Friday, August 22, 2025 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm: Primary Series Led Class followed by Dharma Talk and Q&A
Join Tim for a fun 2.5 hours and learn how this challenging sequence can heal and help you in your body and your life.
Artfully crafted to cleanse our body, purify our nervous system and burn away the delusions of the conditioned mind, this original Vinyasa sequence threads a tapestry of movement, posture, mindful breathing and defined gazing points. While building a healthy, flexible and strong body it opens us up to experiences of the meditative mind. Discover how many lessons of empowerment, hope and surrender is at our fingertips.
All levels are welcome.

Saturday, August 23, 2025 from 8:00 am to 10:00 am and Sunday, August 24, 2025 from 8:15 am to 10:15 am: Mysore Style Class
Named after the city where Krishnamacharya and Pattabhi Jois developed their yoga method, this is the classic way Ashtanga Yoga is taught. A melting pot of yoga practitioners of all levels from beginner to advanced, this class sets out to offer personalized guidance to every practitioner at exactly where you need it most. Build relationship with yourself, your practice and your teacher in this inspiring energy. Come experience and honor the Ashtanga Yoga’s five thousand year old lineage of teachers, sages and gurus, R. Sharath Jois and every Ashtanga practitioner today.

Saturday, August 23, 2025 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Backbending – Foundation and Exploration
This workshop begins with you finding and experiencing simple foundational anatomical principles, to directly deepen your back bend while infusing health and vitality for a life-long practice. Having established healthy technique through detailed technical break-down, we enrich our movement ability by finding our subtle body’s vibrant internal support in every joint. Working from the ancient yogic paradigm, that by proper understanding of our physical foundation, our bodies open up to deeper ability, increased health, insight to Self as well as potential transcendental experiences, you will learn how sound physical setup leads us to movement potential we didn’t think possible.
All levels are welcome.

Sunday, August 24, 2025 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm: How to Put Your Leg Behind Your Head and Q&A
Understanding the nature of your pelvis and hip joint allows you to let energy flow to and from its rightful destinations in your body. Through stretches, partner and individual work you will learn how to begin the Yogic journey of opening your hip joints, free your legs and wrap them gently around your neck while keeping your knees healthy and your mind at ease.
In this workshop you will learn how simple physical inquiry leads to yogic realisations and profound life lessons. 
All levels welcome.

Tim Feldmann teaches Ashtanga Yoga as a practical tool to healing the body, navigating life. He has been practicing yoga since 1994. He is authorized to teach directly by Pattabhi and Sharath Jois.

A practitioner of the Advanced A Series, Tim finds Ashtanga’s traditional method an exceptional path towards healing, wisdom and self-realization. Drawing upon his past as an internationally successful dancer and acclaimed choreographer, anatomy, alignment and technique form an integral part of his teaching.

Tim has been studying Patañjali’s Sutras, Sankhya, Bhagavad Gita, Vedanta and key supporting texts for more than a decade with renowned scholars in South India. He uses his palpable insights as an Ashtanga practitioner to inform his philosophical teachings.

For more info please visit https://timfeldmann.com

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This workshop will offer:

  • In-depth theory and practice of classical Pranayama exercises 
  • Explorative breathing exercises for self-experience 
  • Practice sequences adapted to your needs 
  • Explanatory models and practical tips for teaching 

Session 1: Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm – Workshop

  • Key insights about breath 
  • Fundamentals of breathing and its effects on body and mind 
  • Self-exploration exercises and basic breathing techniques 
  • Reflection 

Session 2: Sunday, September 7, 2025 from 8:00 am to 10:00 am – Practice

  • Integration of breath into a dynamic movement practice 
  • Balancing opposites 
  • Breath focus tailored to individual needs 

Session 3: Sunday, September 7, 2025 from 12:45 pm to 3:45 pm – Workshop

  • Anatomical and philosophical background 
  • Bandhas (energy control) 
  • Variations and progression of classical Pranayama techniques 
  • Explanatory models
  • Practice sequences

Through yoga, Sascha Delberg has found a path he deeply trusts, one that nourishes, soothes, and challenges him on many levels. This path supports his self-reflection, grows with him, and continuously evolves.

He feels fortunate to have learned from many respected teachers over an extended period, and to have assisted some of them. He has been a long-time student of Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, who, at the right time, satisfied his hunger for a deeper understanding of yoga and nurtured it for over a decade.

Sascha studied pranayama personally with various teachers, including O.P. Tiwari, Paul Dallaghan and Richard Freeman. His understanding has grown through his own practice and teaching others. Pranayama leaves him with a calm and contented mind and a sense of clarity.

He is deeply inspired by his meditation teachers Stephen Batchelor and Martine Batchelor, who have helped him gain a better perspective on his inner workings. Over the past 20 years, he has attended numerous meditation retreats across various traditions, some lasting up to a month.

Since 2017, he has immersed himself in yoga therapy and continues to draw inspiration from Doug Keller, whose approach has enriched his teaching.

Sascha’s classes combine Ashtanga elements with a deep focus on breath, therapeutic techniques, and a good dose of humor. His passion comes alive in Mysore-style sessions, where he supports students individually and guides them on their unique yoga journeys.

Together with his wife Romana, Sascha co-directs the Yogawerkstatt in Vienna. He teaches in yoga teacher trainings and workshops locally and internationally. After more than 20 years, his joy in teaching yoga is stronger than ever – a testament to the fulfillment yoga brings as both a practice and a way of life.

For more information please also visit https://www.yogawerkstatt.at

In this workshop we will reignite the powerful expression of seemingly opposite patterns working together to awaken the fully embodied experience of the moment at hand. Together we will explore asana, pranayama, meditation, and chanting with a focus on foundational wave patterns of movement, form and thought that make the ashtanga vinyasa inspired practice supportive, safe, strong, and supple. We will also study the Yoga Tārāvalī and experience firsthand how practicing and contemplating in this way helps remove patterns of holding that can show up as tightness or weakness in your body, difficulty communicating with or finding tolerance for others, and tuning in deeply to your own core needs and emotions.

Inspiration for this workshop grew out of real life for Richard and Mary. With over fifty years of experience each practicing, studying, and teaching yoga while navigating the complexities of life – running a business and raising a family together – they offer insight and wisdom into how to make yoga an integral part of a healthy, happy life. The capacity to see and embody through yoga the interfacing of opposites has been their greatest teacher allowing them to be supportive of one another without losing themselves as individuals in the process. They invite you to join them and explore the freedom of uniting breath, mind, body, and spirit to wake up to your full potential and embrace the capacity to be of service in the world.

Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968. He spent nine years in Asia studying yoga asana, pranayama, Sufism, Sanskrit and Indian philosophy. He has studied asana with B.K.S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois and has worked with numerous Buddhist teachers to draw insights into the interfacing of Buddhism and yoga as a reflection of life.

Richard’s metaphorical, humorous teaching style appeals to students of many backgrounds and nationalities.

Mary Taylor began studying yoga in 1971. Her studies have grown into a deep interest into how yoga asana, meditation and the interfacing of yoga with Buddhism combine to support us through complex modern times. Her main asana practice is in the internal forms of the ashtanga vinyasa tradition.

Mary is part of the core faculty of the ‘Being with Dying’ program at Upaya Zen Center and the senior faculty for the UZIT training program, both of which apply contemplative practices to improved and sustainable wellness within medical settings.

For more information about Richard and Mary please visit www.freemantayloryoga.com

In morning classes, we will begin with a simple pranayama practice followed by and exploration of the Ashtanga Vinyasa system of asana, following an empty thread of awareness through and between postures, and focusing on the intentional sequence of form, thought, movement, and breath that frees the mind, awakens the central channel, and allows a meditative flowing practice to naturally arise.

The afternoons will include chanting, detailed exploration of finishing and restorative practices that compliment and can be integrated into an active ashtanga practice.

Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968. He spent nine years in Asia studying yoga asana, pranayama, Sufism, Sanskrit and Indian philosophy. He has studied asana with B.K.S. Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois and has worked with numerous Buddhist teachers to draw insights into the interfacing of Buddhism and yoga as a reflection of life.

Richard’s metaphorical, humorous teaching style appeals to students of many backgrounds and nationalities.

Mary Taylor began studying yoga in 1971. Her studies have grown into a deep interest into how yoga asana, meditation and the interfacing of yoga with Buddhism combine to support us through complex modern times. Her main asana practice is in the internal forms of the ashtanga vinyasa tradition.

Mary is part of the core faculty of the ‘Being with Dying’ program at Upaya Zen Center and the senior faculty for the UZIT training program, both of which apply contemplative practices to improved and sustainable wellness within medical settings.

For more information about Richard and Mary please visit www.freemantayloryoga.com

Thursday, 25 September 2025 from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm: The Science of Yoga Nidra
Understand from both a Western Science and Indian Inner science perspective the process and benefits of entering into non-sleep deep rest.
This day will include guided yoga nidras for physical healing and deep relaxation.

Friday, 26 September 2025 from 8:00 am to 11:45 am, and 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Sankalpa, The Power of Intention
Learn how to best work with this ancient and powerful practice to reprogram the subconscious mind and transform your life.
This day will include yoga nidras for transformation.  

Saturday, 27 September 2025 from 12:45 pm to 6:00 pm: Yoga Nidra and the Koshas, the Practice of Uncovering Luminous Mind
Learn how yoga nidra transforms the illusory sheaths ‘koshas’ of the body and heals our physical, energetic, emotional, mental, intuitive, and spiritual being to reveal our natural primordial enlightened mind.  

Sunday, 28 September 2025 from 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Yoga Nidra Sequencing
Understand how to make intelligent and effective templates for guiding yourself and others into Yoga Nidra.  
We will look at the science behind the three major lineages of yoga nidra and practice yoga nidras to directly experience their techniques and benefits.  

Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher and practitioner of Hatha and Tibetan Yogas and the founding director of the Vajra Yoga School of Comparative Buddhist & Indic Yogic Studies where she co-teaches with Professor Robert A.F. Thurman at Menla and abroad. 

She has taught, practiced, and studied avidly since 1998, and continues to run her longtime yoga school and beloved studio, The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon. She is also on the Board of Tibet House US and is devoted to supporting His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s mission, as well as preserving Tibetan Culture and Dharma.

You can find Michele often in New York sharing yoga at Tibet House or upstate at Menla Mountain Retreat. Her love and commitment to the unexcelled yoga tantras of Vajrayana as a path we can take towards perfect enlightenment and the integration of those teachings with the Hatha yogas more broadly practiced today, seeing both as powerful and not separate extensions of one another, infuses her work with great joy and commitment to a more compassionate and awakened world. She honors the lineage of teachers she comes from and bows to her longtime Hatha and Classical Yoga teacher, Richard Freeman for elucidating the middle path of love with the utmost clarity and kindness. To Robert Thurman, her beloved principle eacher in Buddhist science and her root guru His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the deepest bow for empowering her in the anuttara yogas. 

Michele teaches regular classes and 200 & 500 YA trainings in Yoga and Yoga Nidra in Portland and New York, as well as retreats and workshops internationally. 

For more information please also check out www.micheleloew.com and www.theyogaspace.com
Follow Michele on Facebook and Instagram @micheleloew   

This intensive is open to everyone, whether you are completely new to Yin Yoga or an experienced teacher seeking a fresh perspective to enhance your teaching. Regardless of your background, you’ll gain tools and insights to deepen your understanding of Yin Yoga and its holistic impact.

By the end of this immersive experience, you will feel empowered and inspired, armed with an updated, holistic model for your personal practice and teaching. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how Yin Yoga supports not only physical health but also the energetic and emotional harmony that sustains a balanced and vibrant life.

With a professional background in Oriental Medicine and a personal passion for the dharma, Josh Summers fell in love with Yin Yoga as a beautiful synthesis of Yoga, Chinese Medicine and Dharma. Josh hosts the Everyday Sublime Podcast and teaches workshops and trainings internationally.

Check out Josh’s site Yin Yoga, Meditation & the Art of Starting Over or his website joshsummers.net

Thursday, 9 October 2025 from 8:45 am to 11:45 am, and 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Element Water 
On the first day of this intensive, Josh will give an in-depth introduction to the Five Elements Theory and Yin Yoga, focusing on the element of water in terms of how we cleanse our bodies, circulate our energy and navigate the many fears of uncertainty in life.

Friday, 10 October 2025 from 8:45 am to 11:45 am, and 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Elements Wood and Fire
On the second day, Josh will explore the elements of Wood and Fire in the practice of Yin Yoga, looking at how these elements relate to healthy boundaries with ourselves and others, as well as deeper inspiration and creativity in our lives.

Saturday, 11 October 2025 from 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm: Element Earth
During this afternoon, Josh will explore the element of Earth and how Yin Yoga supports grounded connection, stabilizing nourishment and an antidote to anxiety.

Sunday, 12 October 2025 from 12.30 pm to 4:00 pm: Element Metal
On the last day, Josh will explore the element of metal, emphasizing the cultivation of awareness of how all the elements work together in a synergistic way.

Simon offers a perfect balance of fluid chi kung inspired yang yoga vinyasa, restorative yin yoga and somatic movement education, leaving you invigorated, inspired and in peace.
You will leave the weekend understanding why many physiotherapists, osteopaths, massage therapists, yoga teachers and psychotherapists regard Somatic Movement Education inspired approach as the ‘missing link’ between physical therapy and human healing at a cellular level.

Friday, 17 October 2025 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: ‘Awakening’ with Somatics, Pranayama, Movement and Meditation
Our first session together introduces a thread that is woven through the entire weekend, creating a mind-body-breath unity that enhances a fresh experience of ‘awakening’ within the yoga and somatics practice, pranayama and meditation.
We will begin with somatic movement to receive the value of pandiculation and the enhancement of respiratory restoration in yoga, liberating the lungs, diaphragm and the auxiliary muscles of respiration, along with our unique holding patterns caused by sensory-motor amnesia.
Our anatomical focus will be augmented by the infusion of practices to maintain ventral vagal tone, leading to very effective grounding and balancing breathwork toward guided ‘awakening’ within meditation; therein exploring suggestions toward a new moral compass within ‘feeling presence’, and a bridge to a more ‘awakened’ state of being off the mat, ultimately reflecting the wisdom of ancient yoga texts that today still offer space, freedom and unity.

Saturday, 18 October 2025 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Yin Yoga and Somatics
This afternoon session explores how somatics and yin yoga cultivate a healing potential ‘greater than the sum of the two parts’. Beginning with somatic movement to enhance the value of pandiculation in the enhancement of restorative yin yoga.
The session will conclude with seated pranayama and meditation, further exploring fresh colour to the thread of ‘awakening’ on and off the mat.

Sunday, 19 October 2025 from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm: Yang Yoga and Somatics
In this final session we again draw forth all we have embodied and awakened while stimulating our physical and energetic beings through a blend of somatics, fluid chi kung inspired vinyasa, and key practices to enhance the experience of space, stability, balance and the power of ‘awakened integration’ within yoga, pranayama and meditation.
Finishing our weekend with pranayama into a vibrant state for seated meditation, and a wide-angle view of a new moral compass we have ‘awakened’. 

Simon Low is a BWY-accredited, YA (US) E-RYT 500 teacher and trainer. After a career in the music industry based out of London, New York and Los Angeles, he undertook training as a yoga teacher and therapist 35 years ago with renowned yoga teacher, therapist and author Dr Larry Payne at Samata International in Los Angeles, California.

Simon’s foundational teachings are informed by those of Sri T Krishnamacharya and his primary students. His current teachings reflect his continued enquiry, training and on-going studies in many forms of Hatha and Classical yoga, traditional Chinese and eastern medicine, Chi Kung, macrobiotics, ancient and contemporary healing methodologies, centred-movement, Thomas Hanna-inspired somatic education, psychology, physical therapy and nutrition.

Following many years of teaching in the UK and Europe, Simon co-founded Triyoga in London, where he was Director of Yoga until 2003. Since then he has concentrated on teacher training at The Yoga Academy and on leading study immersions, workshops and rejuvenating yoga retreats around the world. 

Simon is now based at Santillán Retreat, near Málaga in Spain where he runs retreats and trainings throughout the year, along with twice weekly Zoom classes accessible via www.homeyoga.life

Please also visit www.simonlow.com and www.santillanretreat.co

Taking the seat of the teacher can take a toll on us:

  • How do we sequence intelligent classes and keep doing so, without just using intuition or what we recently learned in another class?
  • How do we deal with rejections, empty classes, or angry-looking students? Or with students that are even walking out of your class?
  • How can we teach responsibly when there are various levels in the room?
  • Are we allowed to teach Asanas that we cannot practice ourselves? Or how do we teach advanced asana?
  • How do we navigate the anarchy of the yoga jungle, social media, competition, and “politics”?
  • How shall we touch people when we assist and what assists could possibly be dangerous?
  • How can we use our voice to master the room and take ownership of the class?

This mentoring programme includes:

  1. Live Sessions
  • Deepen your practice: Self-knowledge as a key to successful teaching (and to enjoy a strong and open body)
  • Assists: How to touch people (and how NOT to!) and what for. We talk about different kind of touches and learn technique, so people really feel your impact.
  • How to teach difficult poses: Sequencing and the psychology of a yoga class. How can we help our students to grow safely and not be dull and boring along the way? – Master any room, big or small: how can you stand in your power and use your voice for the benefit of others. We learn how you lead yourself and how to lead a class confidently and successfully.

2. Group Calls on Zoom

  • Introspection as opportunity and equal challenge. We will talk about how to deal with inner demons and how to not be afraid of failing anymore.
  • Sequencing theory: which is what really makes or breaks good teaching. What side do you want to be on?
  • Marketing/ social media/ competition: the jungle of the yoga market. We will talk money too!
  • Catering (or not) to the different needs in the room: prenatal, injuries, different levels and how to have true integrity as a yoga teacher

3. 1 x 1 hour one-on-one on Zoom with each participant for Q&A and individual coaching

4. Homework: 5 hours of reading, preparing and practice.
You will receive some of Mirjam’s favourite book passages, practice homework and self-development written assignments

Mirjam has over 15 years of yoga teaching experience. She gives regular classes and workshops at AIRYOGA and other studios and has been on stage for many major events such as Wanderlust, Lululemon and various yoga festivals. She was co-founder of the yoga project ‘EveryDay Hero’, pre- and postnatal teacher as well as coach for women and ‘public speaker’ for a healthy and meaningful everyday life. She has three children whom she loves dearly.

For more information see her website www.mirjamhaymann.com or follow her on IG mirjamhaymann