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  • Urban Retreat: Sensitivity (Copenhagen)

    Urban Retreat: Sensitivity (Copenhagen)

    In yoga we are often encouraged to listen to our body, but not always supported in inquiring further about what that means for us. What sensations should we just surrender to and what sensations call for action and change? How do we learn to recognize and feel what happens in the body more clearly and deeply? What are the benefits of placing sensitivity to physical sensation at the heart of your practice?

    Join the inquiry in this urban retreat with three slow-flowing yoga classes. Book as a 9 hour mini-course or just pop by for individual classes. Max 10 people in each class to ensure time for detailed instruction sensitive to the needs of your body.

    The classes are especially suited to those with an interest in the subtle, fluid and meditative aspects of yoga posture practice. When booked together, the three classes form an introduction to the basic principles of Open Flow Yoga.

    The retreat takes place in Brigitte’s private yoga studio in Sluseholmen with a beautiful view to the sky and the water. If you want to combine the classes with a walk in nature, an ocean dive or lunch at a café with a friend, there are plenty of good opportunities in the area. Birgitte will provide tea and a little snack after each class.

    Program:

    Friday the 6th 17.30-20.30: Open Flow Restore

    A quiet restorative practice where we stay close to the floor. We will use slow and gentle movements to release and soften the tissues and supported yoga postures to relax and release unnecessary tension. We will work with the principles of yielding to earth and engaging subtle pre-movements.

    Saturday the 7th 9.30-12.30: Open Flow Sensitize

    A soft and continuous movement meditation, tuning you into your ability to feel physical sensation and inviting it to guide your movements. We will work with the principles of sensitization, moving from what we can feel rather than from what we can train ourselves to do. The class explores fluctuating, unwinding movements that hydrate and soften tissues while inviting you to reconnect with your inner teacher.

    Sunday the 8th 9.30-12.30:  Open Flow Energize

    A dynamic and meditative practice where we allow the playful aspect of open Flow Yoga to emerge from our connection with gravity. We will integrate the practices of yielding and sensitizing in open flows with more energizing movements such as osscilations and waves. The class may incorporate more classical yoga posture flows, giving it a sensitive and creative twist.

    Price: Full weekend 749 DKR. Single class 298 DKR

    Booking: Send an email to Birgitte about available tickets (see email at the very bottom of this page). Payment by mobile 15296. Please write your name and the class you are paying for in the comment section when using mobile pay. If you are a yoga teacher and need an invoice issued to a company, please provide name, address and CVR number in your email. Payment by electronic bank transfer can be arranged for those not using Mobile Pay.

    Terms and conditions: Booking by non-refundable payment only. You are free to sell your ticket to a friend if you make other plans (just like you would with a ticket to a concert or the theatre).

  • Open Flow Yoga – 4 week course (waiting list)

    Open Flow Yoga – 4 week course (waiting list)

    This course introduces the basic principles of Open Flow yoga in four longer yoga classes, taught by Birgitte in her home studio at Sluseholmen. Maximum 10 participants on this course. The course is booked as a whole to make sure the group progresses together, it will not be possible to drop in.

    Time: Fridays 10.00-11.45 (NB: Each class is 1 hour and 45 minutes)

    Dates: September 20th &27th + October 4th & 11th

    Price: 575 DKR

    Booking: Send an email to Birgitte info@birgittegorm.com and Mobile pay 575 kr. to 15296. Payment by electronic invoice and bank transfer can also be arranged.

    Open Flow Yoga:

    Open flow yoga is a practice of somatic self-enquiry. It invites you to access the inherent wisdom of your body by teaching you to move from deeply felt sensation. Instructions are given as gentle invitation to listen, feel and respond to the body you have today. Rather than fitting body into shapes dictated by the teacher, you will be guided into allowing your own inherent movement to freely fulfill itself.

     

    How is it practiced?
    The classes are taught as a mixture of structured and spontaneous movement enquiries as well as rest in meditative stillness. It’s a dynamic, but gentle and meditative practice expanding your practice a little beyond the movements of classic yoga posture practice. Thus, adding to classical yoga posture practice, a class can include wave-like movements (undulation), gentle rocking movements (osscilation) open flows (fluctuation) and subtle pre-movements and meditative stillness. Throughout the practice, you will be invited to feel the arising and dissolving of internal sensation and allow our mind to rest into this flow of sensation.

    What is it for?
    Open flow yoga is a practice of embodied self enquiry, getting to know yourself through sensitive movement. You may experience over time that your body moves with more delight, grace and ease, some would call this functional strength and mobility. If you have been under stress you may also feel that the practice builds more resilience as your nervous system finds its way back into a more balanced stress response. You may even gain insights into your own nature that makes you feel like you have made some kind of progress in yoga. However, these are not goals set by the teacher but more like side effects of your own process. To the teacher you arrive to class perfect, complete and whole as you are. The teachers job is not to provide answers but to ask good questions that spark your own curiosity and exploration.

    The only real outcome of the practice is thus a deepening of your enquiry into what is happening here and now, in and as your body. Yoga in this approach is an engagement with the world rather than a retreat from it. By honoring the body we have today and by practicing together to support each other we let go, at least a little, of the pressure to perform or improve. Is it possible to really appreciate this life and this body in all its variation, just as it is?

    Where does it come from?
    Like any other approach to yoga posture practice Open Flow Yoga draws inspiration from several sources. Some of them are: Yoga Somatics, developmental movement, Fascial Flow, Dynamic Yoga and the fluid teachings of Angela Farmer.

    event photo credits © clausboesen.dk

  • Workshops i Århus

    Workshops i Århus

    Tre workshops i Århus, tilmelding online hos Yoga Collective

    Tirsdag den 27. November: Sansning – intimitet med kroppen (aften)

    En hel fundamental del af yoga er at lytte til kroppen. På samme måde som du ville lytte til en god ven der fortæller dig om sin dag, kan yoga foregå som en respektfuld og åben samtale. Når vi arbejder med sensitivitet og det at mærke efter hos sig selv falder præstationstrangen, projekterne og dommene væk og vi står ansigt til ansigt med den intimitet vi så ofte længes efter og søger uden for os selv.

    Birgitte underviser en blid, dynamisk yogaklasse der bevæger hele kroppen og skærper din sansning, især omkring leddene. Ved at blive mere præcis omkring, hvad du kan mærke i kroppen (interoception) når du bevæger dig, lærer du at guide din praksis indefra så du ved hvor langt du skal gå i en yogastilling, hvor længe du skal blive der og hvad du kan gøre for at din yogapraksis bliver mere meditativ og behagelig.

    Onsdag den 28. November: Flow – det frie åndedræt (aften)

    På moderne yogaklasser arbejdes der tit med at synkronisere åndedræt og bevægelse (vinyasa). Denne tilgang tilfører din yoga et legende og flydende element, men gemmer også på et meditativt aspekt der sjældent finder sin fulde dybde på det ugentlige drop-ind hold. På denne workshop arbejder vi med flow-baseret yoga som meditationsteknik. Birgitte underviser i det frie åndedræt (svaramukta) som et kraftfuldt redskab til at gå dybere i din praksis og kobler dette med en række enkle, cirkulære flows (ullolla). Du lærer at bruge det frie åndedræt som et redskab til at gå dybere i din praksis. Birgitte deler her sin viden og mange års erfaring fra Dynamic Yoga hvor metoden til at undervise det frie åndedræt er udviklet. 

    Onsdag den 28. November : Workshop for yogalærere: Sansebaseret instruktion (eftermiddag)

    Som yogalærere bruger vi ofte generelle alignmentprincipper for at sikre, at vi passer godt på vores elever i undervisningen. Men eftersom dine elevers kroppe er specifikt forskellige både fysisk og historisk er der ikke noget one-size princip der passer til alle. En sikker og sensitiv instruktion taler derfor altid til elevens egen oplevelse af kroppen, sådan at vi som yogalærere underviser vores elever i selv at handle på det de kan mærke snarere end bare at gøre hvad der bliver sagt. De fleste yogalærere er i dag opmærksomme på, at det er for uspecifikt blot at bede eleven om selv at ”mærke efter” eller ”respektere sin grænse”. Alligevel er der I dag yderst få yogalæreruddannelser der tilbyder en systematisk metode til at guide eleven i at finde ud af a) hvad de konkret skal mærke efter og b) hvor grænsen går netop i dag. Denne workshop giver dig inspiration til, hvordan du konkret kan hjælpe dine elever med at fintune sensitiviteten overfor sansefornemmelser og undersøge deres egen krops kapacitet.

    Hvem kan deltage: Kurset er åbent for yogalærere med minimum 100 timers uddannelse. Hvis du er midt i en uddannelse eller har anden baggrund som du mener kvalificerer til denne workshop så skriv til Birgitte.

    Se de nøjagtige tider & priser og book din plads hos Yoga Collective

     

     

  • Tre nye kurser: Open Flow Yoga:

    Tre nye kurser: Open Flow Yoga:

    Fredage 8.00-9.30

    Open Flow Yoga er en sensitiv og langsomt flydende yogapraksis der bruger meditativ bevægelse til at afbalancere nervesystemet gennem bindevævet (fascier). Klasserne kan varier fra det helt blide og restorative til det mere legende flow men prioriterer altid det blide, dybe og undersøgende spektrum af moderne yoga.  Undervisningen er inspireret af bevægelsesformer som Yoga Somatics, Continuum Movement, Dynamic Yoga og Fascial Flow.

    Undervisningen foregår på dansk

    Booking: Betal for det kursus du vil med på via Mobile Pay 28892450 og send en mail til Bigitte så hun kan reservere din plads. Du kan også betale ved kontooverførsel

    Pris for alle tre kurser booket inden 26. januar: 1500

    Introkursus (åben for alle uanset erfaring)
    26. januar
    2. februar
    9. februar

    Pris: 375 kr.

    Niveau 1 (åben for alle der har været til yoga et par gange og gerne vil prøve noget nyt)
    9. marts
    16. marts
    23. marts
    6. april
    13. april
    20. april

    Pris 750 kr.

    Niveau 2 (åben for alle der kender til Birgittes undervisning, til Yoga Somatics eller til Fascial flow)
    18. maj
    25. maj
    1. juni
    8. juni
    15. juni

    Pris: 625

     

     

     

     

     

  • Tre nye kurser: Spiral vinyasa

    Tre nye kurser: Spiral vinyasa

    Mandage kl. 15.15-16.45

    Spiral vinyasa er en dynamisk, mindful yogaform der inviterer dig til at tænke ud af boksen i din yogapraksis. Ved at introducere ikke-lineære og variable flows i din yogapraksis inviterer vi en sund mobilitet og en funktionel form for styrke som naturligt støtter din krop og dit nervesystem i hverdagen. En kursus for dig der vil give din yoga et funktionelt, kreativt og legende boost.

    Undervisningen kan foregå på dansk eller engelsk efter behov og er inspireret af yogaformer som Dynamic Yoga, Developemental movement, Yoga Somatics og Fascial Flow.

    Booking: Betal for det kursus du vil med på via Mobile Pay 28892450 og send en mail til Bigitte så hun kan reservere din plads. Du kan også betale ved kontooverførsel

    Pris: Hvis du booker alle tre kurser samlet inden den 22. januar er prisen 1700 kr. Se daroer og pris for køb af enkeltstående kurser nedenfor

    Introkursus (åben for alle uanset erfaring)

    22. januar
    29. januar
    5 februar
    19. februar
    Pris: 500

    Niveau 1 (åben for alle der har været til yoga et par gange og gerne vil prøve noget nyt)
    5. marts
    12. marts
    19. marts
    9. april
    16. april
    23. april
    Pris: 750

    Niveau 2 (åben for alle der kender til Birgittes undervisning, til Yoga Somatics eller til Fascial flow)
    7. maj
    14. maj
    28. maj
    4. juni
    11. juni
    18. juni
    Pris: 750

  • Open Flow: New waves in yoga (Copenhagen workshop)

    Open Flow: New waves in yoga (Copenhagen workshop)

    A day of exploring new, delicious movements in your practice. The practice of yoga is in continuous variation, like water running through the cracks and curves of a landscape. At the fringe of  present reinventions in modern postural yoga we find approaches working with sensation-based movement and open-ended, unstructured flows. This workshop is an embodied enquiry into feeling and following internal movements arising from the wisdom of your own body and exploring yoga postures as natural extensions of the impulse to move towards delight. Birgitte will introduce movements such as wave-like undulations, rhythmic oscillations and slow-motion chaotic fluctuations and help you explore their different impacts in your body and your practice. The workshop begins with a series of movement-experiments, using the open flow technique of “myofascial unwinding” to find, feel and follow natural flows in your body. The second half of the workshop takes place as a collective dive into a continuous movement meditation. The workshop is inspired by old yoga pioneers and informed by new perspectives on human anatomy. It thus stands on the solid shoulders of modern postural yoga while curiously questioning it´s mainstream paradigm of straight lines, static postures and intense stretching.
    To ensure quality of the teaching the workshop is limited to 10 people. The workshop is open to all.

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    Time:

    10.30-13.00: Workshop about 3 types of movement: The class will alternate between guided flows, demonstration and practical clarification.

    14.00-16.30: Guidet class using 3 types of movement in a continouus open flow movement meditation.

    Praksisk: Full program is recommended if you want a deeper understanding of the techniques and their effects in your own practice. If you dont have time for a full day treat, its perfectly fine to do just one class, either morning or afternoon. We have a one-hour lunch break between 13.00 and 14.00. You can buy food in the local cafes or bring your own and eat in the tea kitchen or on the balcony. The yoga room has all equipment and is open 15 minutes before each class. If you want to go for a swim in the newly opened sea swimming facility next door, bring bathing suit and towel.

    Pris: All day 495 DKR, single class 295 DKR.

    Booking: Write to info@dynamicyoga.dk and book by bank transfer. If you have a Danish bank account you can Mobile Pay to 28892450. Your booking is valid and binding from the day you make the transfer. We give no refund if you cancel but you are free to sell your space to a friend (like you would with a concert ticket).

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  • Open Flow: Yoga for fascial release

    Open Flow: Yoga for fascial release

    Fascia are the thin elastic tissues that envelop every part of your body into an interconnected whole.  For the last two decades, yogis have approached fascial release mainly through long passive stretching or applying static pressure with balls and foam rollers.  Recently, however, we are seeing a global wave of new approaches working with fascia through slow, subtle movements, muscular action and unstructured flows. Fascia work is becoming an undeniable “new black” in the international yoga community.

    Birgitte will guide you through a softly flowing practice where movement arise out of deeply felt sensation. The practice awakens a more supple form of strength and flexibility similar to the kind you see in little babies. We will explore moving in ways that challenge your habituated patterns of neatly aligned yoga postures and allow you to tap into the creative repertoire of your very own body. The class alternates between structured movement-enquiries done together and slow open flows that invite you to explore your own internal experience of the body.

    Birgitte is there to facilitate the wisdom of your feeling body so you can hear its gentle messages more clearly. Therefore, the workshop will be experience based, meaning 100% practice and 0% theory! Birgitte is happy to discuss theoretical implications and yoga anatomy after the workshop but will not get you in your head while you are working on the yoga mat.

    Price: 350 kr.

    Booking: studion@studiofrid.se

     

  • Væk Kroppen – Fascial Flow Yogakursus

    Væk Kroppen – Fascial Flow Yogakursus

    Når lyset vender tilbage, får vi naturligt trang til at blive mere aktive. Her vil du blive undervist i teknikker til blidt at vække muskulaturen i hele kroppen og udforske nye bevægelser i din yogapraksis. Vi kravler udenfor yogamåttens fire hjørner og bruger væggene og gulvet til at udfordre de lige linjer, der har karakteriseret yogaens fysiske praksis siden 1930érne. Klasserne giver dig en mere organisk tilgang til din yogapraksis, som din legende barnekrop sikkert husker. Vi udforsker nye forbindelser mellem kroppens dele og giver dig mulighed til at arbejde med kompensationer og kropsholdning på en helt anden måde, end vi er vant til fra alignmentbaseret yoga.

    Åbent for alle der har prøvet yoga i flow og har lyst til at lære noget nyt.

    2. marts, 9. marts, 16. marts, 23. marts, 30. marts, 6. april

    Pris: 700 kr.

    Underviser: Birgitte Gorm Hansen

    Dato: Strat 2. Marts
    Tidspunkt: Torsdage Kl. 8.00-9.30
    Spørgsmål: kontakt@yogavesterbro.dk 
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    Om Fascial Flow Yoga:
    Fascierne er en del af dit bindevæv, et fint netværk af elastisk væv, der forbinder kroppen fra inderst til yderst. Fascial Flow Yoga er en måde at bevæge dig på, som aktivt stimulerer fascierne, så de bibeholder deres elasticitet og vitalitet. Det er en yogaform, der arbejder blidt med funktionel bevægelse, afbalancering af nervesystemet, træner sensitiviteten og styrker oplevelsen af egne ressourcer.
    Klasserne veksler mellem strukturerede sekvenser, der arbejder med kompensationer i kroppen og meditative flows, hvor kroppen får lov at følge sin egen spontane bevægelse. Typisk vil der på en klasse både være ”stop-og-kig-undervisning” og dybere ”dyk”, hvor du guides helt ind i din egen kropslige væren. Fascial Flow Yoga henter inspiration fra bevægelsessystemet Fascial Flow der bygger på Rolf Movement og Continuum Movement. Du vil også møde elementer fra Yoga Somatics og Dynamic Yoga.