Tag: yoga teacher training

Sensorisk Alignment (Venteliste! Ny dato 2. Feb. 2020)

I yoga opfordrer vi ofte eleverne til at ”lytte til kroppen”, blandt andet for at undgå skader. Men ofte har vi ikke de pædagogiske værktøjer til at lære eleven hvad det betyder i praksis. Lige nu kigger moderne yoga til sansningen af kroppen som et kompas, der kan supplere de ”one size” alignmentprincipper som vi tidligere har brugt som rettesnor. Tilbage står vi som undervisere med en ny udfordring: Nemlig at blive bedre til at lære eleven at justere sin praksis indefra og ikke kun korrigere sin praksis udefra.

Hvilke sansninger skal vi opfordre eleven at overgive sig til og hvilke sansninger kræver handling? Hvordan lærer vi eleven selv at mærke forskellen på de to? Hvordan tilpasser vi alignmentprincipper til den enkelte, når vi står overfor en yogaklasse med 20-30 elever der alle har en unik kropsbygning og subjektiv oplevelse af kroppen? Hvad giver det eleven at arbejde systematisk med sit indre sansekompas og hvordan hænger det sammen med yogatraditionen og dens filosofier?

På denne workshop bliver du introduceret for en metode til at træne dine elever i, at handle på det, de selv kan mærke. Du får en kropslig erfaring med sansebaseret bevægelse, samt inspiration til at introducere et sensorisk lag i dit undervisningssprog.

Workshoppen er åben for yogalærere. De værktøjer du bliver introduceret til kan bruges på tværs af yogaformer og er ikke knyttet til en bestemt stilart. På dagen fokuserer vi dog primært på alignmentbaseret yoga i flow.

Du får:

Baggrundsviden om den ”sensoriske vending” som er på vej ind i moderne yoga.

En meditativ, dynamisk yogapraksis der demonstrerer et par af de pædagogiske principper bag sensorisk alignment.

Praktiske tips til at koblingen mellem alignmentbaseret yoga og sansetræning i din undervisning (sensitization).

Workshoppens tema ligger i forlængelse af weekendkurset om ullola for yogalærere , men kan sagtens tages som et selvstændigt kursus.

Pris: 785 kr

Booking & Betingelser:

Skriv en email til Birgitte for at høre om ledige pladser. Ledige pladser bookes kun mod ikke-refunderbar betaling. Brug mobile pay 15296 eller bed om en elektronisk faktura. Hvis faktura skal udstedes til dit firma, så husk at inkludere CVR nummer og firmaadresse i din email. Ved aflysning fra deltagere refunderes beløbet ikke. Ved aflysning fra Birgitte refunderes det fulde beløb. Du er fri til at sælge din plads videre til en anden yogalærer hvis du bliver forhindret.

15th August 2019
30-timers uddannelse for yogalærere: Spiral Vinyasa

Et kursus for dig der underviser i flow-baseret yoga og vil lære mere.

Spiral vinyasa er en dynamisk, mindful yogaform der understøtter let og ubesværet bevægelse og sund kropsholdning både på yogamåtten og i hverdagen. I en traditionel, dynamisk yogaklasse arbejder vi ofte med lige linjer og har fokus på forholdet mellem kroppens forside og bagside (f.eks solhilsen). Hvad vi måske ikke kommer helt så ofte omkring er de spirallinjer som udgør en grundlæggende byggesten i al menneskelig bevægelse. Spiralflows er naturlige bevægelsesmønstre der rækker tilbage til den tidlige barndom og understøtter kroppens naturlige integritet og funktionelle bevægelighed. Spiral vinyasa kan bruges som krydderi på dine flow-baserede yogaklasser eller som en selvstændig praksis på f.eks workshops og retreats. Det er en undervisningsform der trin for trin opbygger sund muskelstyrke og afbalanceret spændstighed (tensegritet). Du lærer at undervise ud fra trinvis progression så alle dine elever kan være med. Du får en mere cirkulær kropslig orientering der giver et kreativt og legende løft til din undervisning og støtter dine elever i at forebygge klassiske yogaskader.

Max 11 deltagere.

Du får:

Generelle principper for en klar og let forståelig instruktion i flow-baseret yoga.

Nye vinyasa-typer du kan bruge mellem yogastillinger eller som ”spiral salutations”.

En metode til at undervise spiral vinyasa trin for trin.

Viden om betydningen af ”tensegrity” (tensional integrity) i yoga.

Viden om sammenhængen mellem bevægelse og læring i yogaens fysiske praksis.

Viden om barnets motoriske udvikling og hvordan du kan bruge denne viden i din undervisning.

Hvem kan deltage: Kurset henvender sig til dig der allerede har taget mindst en yogalæreruddannelse (minimum 100 timer). Det er en fordel hvis du allerede er i gang med at undervise, men ikke et krav. Hvis du er i tvivl om hvorvidt du er kvalificeret så skriv en mail til Birgitte og fortæl om din erfaring.

Modul I: 5-6. september 8.30-16.00

Modul II: 3-4. oktober 8.30-16.00

Overbygning: Kurset kan tages alene eller fordybes med yderligere 20 timer fordelt på workshops eller kurser med Birgitte samt et personligt mentorforløb. Se kalenderen for datoer på supplerende workshops og kurser og skriv til Birgitte for at høre mere.

Booking: Skriv en mail til info@dynamicyoga.dk

Pris: 4.499 Kr.

Når du er optaget, kan du forhåndsreservere din plads ved at indbetale et ikke-refunderbart depositum på 40% af prisen. Det resterende beløb betales senest to måneder før kursusstart og refunderes ikke ved afbud fra kursusdeltageren. Der er dog mulighed for, efter aftale med Birgitte, at sælge sin plads til en anden kvalificeret yogalærer eller udbyde den til eventuelle personer på venteliste hvis man får andre planer i perioden op til uddannelsen. Under særligt alvorlige omstændigheder som f.eks alvorlig sygdom eller lignende kan der forhandles om at overføre beløbet fra den samlede uddannelse til andre events eller senere uddannelser. Dette gælder ikke ved sygdom/fravær på enklete dage i uddannelsen. Det fulde beløb refunderes naturligvis hvis Birgitte skulle vælge at aflyse uddannelsen. Ved sygdom eller aflysning fra kursusudbyder vil der blive tilbudt erstatningstimer på en senere dato for det samlede hold. Der udstedes kursusbevis efter uddannelsen er afsluttet, såfremt deltageren har været til stede og deltaget aktivt i samtlige dage.

3rd July 2017
50 hour yoga teacher training: The role of the yoga teacher (Copenhagen)
Life as a yoga teacher is a welcome to paradox: Our glowing passion for yoga can burn us out, our connection with students can leave us feeling lonely and isolated, our spiritual call to unity takes place within a highly divided and competitive market space and our skills in empowering our students can become a power-trip in itself.

This 50-hour course is for the trained yoga teacher who want to inquire deeper into psychological and social dynamics around their work. We will explore the psychology behind your role as a yoga teacher as well as the power dynamics entailed in taking on this role. Our focus is the teacher/student relationship and how it plays out in your own relationship to the people you teach and train with. A typical day involves:

1) A talk addressing psychological and historical aspects affecting modern yoga communities

2) A group enquiry using the Big Mind process to access the drives, resources and shadows that can support you in becoming more helpful to your students

3) Short yoga posture practices, meditations or group exercises integrating, digesting and operationalizing what we learned during the day.

The training gives you tools to navigate with integrity from your own inner compass rather than receiving an expert guideline for how you should act as a teacher. The training is mainly process-work meaning we will be working with your lived experience with taking on the role of the yoga teacher and discuss the dynamics that you are currently puzzled by or need support to navigate. Our group enquiry will address the following themes:

-The teacher/student relationship as it plays out in your life

-Healthy boundaries at work

-Power, hierarchy and cult-logic: The psychology of shadows in yoga

-Your own shadows and what they can teach you

-Navigating competition and the spiritual marketplace.

-Group dynamics in your teaching.

-Loneliness, working life and creating networks of peer support.

This training is limited to 10 people.

Dates 2018: July 21 at 15.00 to July 28. At 15.00.

Place: Metropolis Yoga is one of Copenhagen’s most beautiful yoga venues, situated at the Copenhagen water front only a 10 minute drive from the central station and 15 minutes from Copenhagen airport. The area is famous for its canals and architecture and has an ocean swimming facility and green areas around the corner. You can bring your own food and eat in the kitchen or the balcony or go out for lunch in one of the local café´s. Accomodation is not provided at the yoga room but there are lots of hotel, airbnd and

Price: 1136EUR, 8.499 DKR. 1297 USD covers the teaching fee, tea and snacks.

Application: Write to info@birgittegorm.com with a short statement about:
- Your yoga teacher training
- Other relevant education in use in your current work
- How long you have been teaching
- A list of the kinds of teaching you offer and for whom
- Your aspirations and motivation to join his training
- Any history of psychological or neurological challenges
About Birgitte:

Birgitte have been teaching yoga for 15 years, and have been practicing yoga and meditation for more than two decades. She has an MA in social Psychology from the University of Copenhagen and PhD in management from the Copenhagen Business School. Birgitte is trained as a process consultant using systemic and narrative frameworks and has been training in Big Mind facilitation since 2013 with her Zen teacher Genpo Roshi, currently on the advanced training program. She has taught, assisted and worked as an external examinatior in several yoga teacher training programs and have been teaching workshops for yoga teachers for more than a decade. With extensive teaching experience from universities, yoga studios and retreat centres, she communicates with ease and joy in both English and Danish. Throughout her career as a yoga teacher Birgitte has been at the front line of experimental and sensation-based approaches to yoga posture practice and have paved the way for a generation of Scandinavian yoga teachers who dare to think out of the box.

Booking, terms and conditions:

When you have been accepted to the program you reserve your space by paying a 30% non-refundable deposit. The deposit secures your booking until 3 months prior to the training. The remaining amount is due by May 21. It is not possible to transfer your booking to later events, nor will your payment be refunded if you cancel after may 21^st. You are however free to sell your space to another qualified yoga teacher or offer it to someone on waiting list if you make other plans, provided that Birgitte has been consulted about this. Birgitte will of course refund the full amount in the unlikely event of her cancelling the training. There is no exam in this course since our focus lies on self-enquiry and processual work rather than dissemination of knowledge. You will receive a course diploma documenting your full and active participation in all course days.
3rd July 2017
40 hour teacher training: The Role of the yoga teacher (Copenhagen)
Life as a yoga teacher is a welcome to paradox: Our glowing passion for yoga can burn us out, our connection with students can leave us feeling lonely and isolated, our spiritual call to unity takes place within a highly divided and competitive market space and our skills in empowering our students can become a power-trip in itself.

A course designed for you who are already teaching yoga and want to inquire deeper into psychological and social dynamics around your work. We will explore the psychology behind your role as a yoga teacher as well as the power dynamics entailed in taking on this role. Our focus is the teacher/student relationship and how it plays out in your own relationship to the people you teach and train with. A typical day involves:

1) A theoretical talk addressing issues in the psychological or historical backdrop of teaching modern yoga.

2) A group enquiry using the Big Mind process to acces the drives, ressources and shadows that can support you in becoming more helpful to your students

3) Short yoga posture practices, meditations or group work integrating, digesting and operationalizing what we learn during the day.

The training gives you tools to navigate with integrity from your own inner compass rather than receiving an expert moral guideline for how you should act as a teacher. The training is mainly process-work meaning we will be working with your lived experience with taking on the role of the yoga teacher and discuss the dynamics that you are currently puzzled by or need support to navigate. Our group enquiry will be based on the needs of the group but will address the following themes:
- Healthy boundaries: How you can create safe space in the teacher/student relationship
- Psychological dynamics in the teacher role: Projection, transference and counter transference
- Power and empowement in yoga: How to identify and use power dynamics productively in your work
- Cult logic in modern yoga history: How to support safe space in yoga communities
- Embracing your shadows: How to grow your range as a teacher
- Navigating in the spiritual marketplace: Working with competition and peer support
This training is limited to 10 people.

Dates 2018: July 21 at 15.00 to July 28. At 15.00.

Place: Metropolis Yoga is one of Copenhagen’s most beautiful yoga venues, situated at the Copenhagen water front only a 10 minute drive from the central station and 15 minutes from Copenhagen airport. The area is famous for its architecture and canals, the yoga venue has an ocean swimming facility around the corner as well copenhagens largest green area within walking disatance. You can bring your own food and eat in the kitchen or the balcony or go out for lunch in one of the local café´s. Accomodation is not provided at the yoga room but there are lots of hotes and AirB&B and hostels in the city to chose from.

Price: 995EUR covers the teaching fee, tea and afternoon snacks. This course has 3 spaces available at a donation price for teachers who are travelling from abroad and are engaged in non-profit activities and/or work with vulnerable populations who cannot pay. Write directly to Birgitte if you feel you qualify for the donation program.

Application: Write to info@birgittegorm.com with a short statement about:
- Your yoga teacher training
- Other relevant education in use in your current work
- How long you have been teaching
- A list of the kinds of teaching you offer and for whom
- Your aspirations and motivation to join his training
- Any history of psychological or neurological challenges
About Birgitte:

Birgitte have been teaching yoga for 15 years, and have been practicing yoga and meditation for more than two decades. She has an MA in social Psychology from the University of Copenhagen and PhD in management from the Copenhagen Business School. Birgitte is trained as a process consultant using systemic and narrative frameworks and has been training in Big Mind facilitation since 2013 with her Zen teacher Genpo Roshi, currently on the advanced training program. She has taught, assisted and worked as an external examinatior in several yoga teacher training programs and have been teaching workshops for yoga teachers for more than a decade. With extensive teaching experience from universities, yoga studios and retreat centres, she communicates with ease and joy in both English and Danish. Throughout her career as a yoga teacher Birgitte has been at the front line of experimental and sensation-based approaches to yoga posture practice and have paved the way for a generation of Scandinavian yoga teachers who dare to think out of the box.

Booking, terms and conditions:

When you have been accepted in the training you reserve your space by paying a 30% non-refundable deposit. The deposit secures your booking until 3 months prior to the training. The remaining amount is due by May 21. 2018. It is not possible to transfer your booking to later events, nor will your payment be refunded if you cancel after may 21^st. You are however free to sell your space to another qualified yoga teacher or offer it to someone on waiting list if you make other plans, provided that Birgitte has been consulted about this. Birgitte will of course refund the full amount in the unlikely event of a cancellation onher part. There is no exam in this course since our focus is on self-enquiry and process work rather than dissemination of knowledge. You will receive a course diploma documenting your full and active participation in all course days.
1st July 2017
Ateeka in Copenhagen: Yogasomatics – Freedom & Containment

We are happy to welcome a Ateeka back in Copenhagen for a workshop introducing YogaSOMATICS. Ateeka offers a contemporary perspective on yoga that is immediate, fluid, experiential and infused with a tantric attitude. We suspect this stuff is going to rock modern yoga as we know it. Book your space now via Mobile Pay 28892450 .

Saturday: 9.30-18.00 (lunch break 12.30-14.30)
Sunday: 9.30-13.30
Price: 1400 DKR
Booking: Mobile Pay 28892450
Place: Copenhagen, address TBA

YogaSOMATICS: Freedom & Containment

The instinct for freedom beats deeply in the heart of every yogi and yogini.

The longing for containment and connection pulses within every living being.

This workshop is a practical and poetic introduction to how energy naturally moves and flows in your own living body, and offers introspective practices for embodiment, grounding and centering for wellbeing.

Through movement, yoga asana, breathing and relaxation techniques, we will explore:

-How the energetic system of the body forms chakras, meridians and other energetic channels that contribute to how our bodies take shape and form, and also trans-form.
-Inner exercises for circulating “prana” (vital life force energy) towards your root, hara, heart and crown.
-Asana and somatic movements for bringing awareness to the entire spine and enhancing awareness of its own natural energetic currents and fluid tides.
-The life movements of involution and expansion and the yoga asanas that facilitate resiliency in the flux and flow of life.
-Deep relaxation and healing breathing practices that attune your awareness towards the movements of your energetic body.
-A practice of myofascial unwinding that softly and gently helps to restore your myofascial/connective tissue to a state of healthy natural resiliency. You will learn how myofascial unwinding can be an useful preparation for more advanced yoga asanas.

Saturday: 9.30-18.00 (lunch break 12.30-14.30)
Sunday: 9.30-13.30
Price: 1400 DKR
Booking: Mobile Pay 28892450
Place: Copenhagen, address TBA

Terms and conditions:
Booking is based on a first-come-first-serve-principle. It is not possible to reserve space without payment. Booking is valid and binding from the day payment is recieved, no refund is given in case of cancellation from workshop participants. In the unlikly event of Ateeka cancelling, full refund will be given to everyone who payd for the workshop. Participants are free to sell their ticket onwards to another party if they can´t make it to the workshop. If there is a waiting list for the workshop the organizers can offer to sell the space to anybody on waiting list but with no guarentee of sucess.

9th October 2016
Mød Atteka

For dig der overvejer Ateekas workshop i november eller hendes yogalæreruddannelse 2017-18 i København har vi arrangeret et uformelt møde i forbindelse med Copenhagen Yoga Festival. Her kan du stille spørgsmål og få en snak med Ateeka om Yoga Somatics og om uddannelsen. Mødet vil være åbent for alle og deltagelse kræver ikke billet til festivalen.

Vi mødes lørdag den 27. August foran det telt der hedder “yogavivo” klokken 13.15. Alt efter vejret finder vi et passende sted at sidde i nærheden af festivalpladsen. Hvis du ikke kan finde os kan du ringe til Birgitte på 26169309.

Ateeka underviser to klasser den lørdag så hvis du har købt billet til festivallen opfordrer vi dig til at prøve hendes undervisning. Se attekas program her

PS: Har du ikke billet til festivallen kan du stadig deltage gratis i Birgitte Fascial Flow Yoga event i Yogavivo-teltet som ligger umiddelbart før mødet. Klassen starter 11.30 og er et åbent arrangement på drop ind basis så kom i god tid for at sikre dig en plads. Denne klasse undervises kun på dansk.

Vi glæder os til at se dig!

Meet Ateeka

If you are considering Ateekas workshop in november or her Yoga Somatics teacher training in 2017-18 here is your chance to meet with her in person and get a feeling for her way of teaching. On saturday 27th at 13.15 we have organized an informal meeting in connection with the Copenhagen Yoga Festival. The meeting is open to all and does not require a ticket to the festival.

Where and when? We meet on saturday August 27th in front of the Yogavivo tent at 13.15. If you can´t find us, call or text Birgitte on +45 26169309. Depending on the weather we will find a good place to sit down and talk.

If you have tickets to the festival workshops, Ateeka will be teaching two classes on saturday that we encourage you to check out. See Ateekas festival program here

See you at the Copenhagen Yoga Festival

12th August 2016
Only 4 spaces left! YogaSomatics teacher training with Ateeka (Copenhagen)

We now welcome applications for our 10 module teacher training and mentorship program with Ateeka in Copenhagen. The training is 250 hours including mentoring program- March 2017-November 2018.

Weekend modules begin and end a the following times:
Friday 10 – 17
Saturday 10 – 17
Sunday 10 – 14:30

The last module in 2018 will be a retreat in italy

SEE ALL DATES IN OUR FULL PROGRAM DETAILS PDF

This training and mentorship program will enrich your own yoga/movement practice and give you a new foundation and set of somatic practitioner skills for teaching yoga to others, or the bring a somatic perspective into health care and holistic therapeutic settings.You will learn deep integrative therapeutic techniques and meditative practices to help reduce stress, shift neuro-emotional/psycho-somatic patterns, awaken deep body consciousness, cultivate health, vitality and balance. You will learn effective mind-body connection practices for re-appropriating, grounding, circulating and utilizing life energy (prana). When life energy is flowing and balanced, one can access a vast potential for a healthy body, emotional equilibrium, mental clarity and deeper understanding of life process.

This training is an opportunity to bring depth to your experience of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual elements in your life, and how to share this with students and clients.

All modules include deep investigation into asana, movement, breath, sound, contact, embodied and energetic anatomy, collective symbols & archetypes, yoga philosophy from a somatic perspective. All modules include explorations made individually, in partners and with hands-on contact.

Please see detailed PDF document for full module program and content / practical details.

Simply by participating in this course, you will investigate how we can sensitively perceive and respond to others. The somatic communication skills learned in this part of the course are essential for those who wish to teach, and are very useful simply as human beings, in relation with one another in every moment. By participating in this course, you will be part of an amazing experiment of ideas, energy and manifestations in motion.

Read more about Ateeka here

APPLY HERE: APPLICATION FORM

10th August 2016
The Teachers Retreat (Sold out)

Teaching yoga is a rewarding job in itself. It is also a job that takes a little extra. The originality and freshness of your teaching comes from the depth of your living practice. This retreat helps you find ways to teach from your body rather than from knowledge or belief. It is also an opportunity to get inspiration and peer support to help you thrive in your working life. We are open for trained (and trainee) yoga teachers from all branches of the yoga family tree. The retreat is not a training in any particular approach to yoga. Instead, we will refine the way you translate the feeling intelligence of your own body into verbal instructions, finding your own voice.

You will receive 25 hours of teaching in 3,5 days, deepening your somatic understanding of yoga posture practice.

Pay by mobile pay 28892450 and write an email to info@dynamicyoga.dk informing briefly about your training and teaching experience. Also name one area in your working life in which you feel the need for support.

A typical day

Each day begins early with a quiet sitting followed by a long flow-based yoga class addressing the theme of the day. You will learn to activate your body in a way that supports feeling sensation as the compass for your practice (as oposed to learning fixed principles of alignment or traditional “full” postures). Birgitte will take you through a structured sequence of classes based on becoming a little more sensitive to the changes in sensation within you. This way of teaching is an invitation for you to access an intelligent response to what you can feel from the wisdom of your own body. Each day will sensitize specific joints of the body and invite you to listen deeply to what they have to say.

Afternoons will focus on somatic self-enquiry and/or refining your teaching skills. Guided experiments on the mat will help you explore the difference between “action” and “impact” in yoga postures to help you get clearer about how instructions could be more helpful for your students. You will be introduced to two levels of verbal instruction useful to promote safety, clarity and depth in your teaching. You will spend time in groups clarifying muscular actions and their impacts in the body and playing with layers of instruction.

The evenings focus on dialogue, reflection and mentoring. Birgitte will use the Big Mind process (developed by Genpo Roshi) to facilitate a group dialogue. We will explore themes and dilemmas that comes up for you professionally and find resources to support you where you are. The evenings are structured group dialouges allowing you to tap into the wisdom already within you.

The retreat begins thursday at 15.00 and ends sunday evening after dinner.

Place: A beautiful 250-m2 house in Sweden, surrounded by a private forest. (at the border between Skåne and Blekinge, nearest town in Lönsboda) Accommodation in shared rooms. If you prefer your won private space you are welcome to bring your own tent and camp in the surrounding grass field.

We limit this retreat to 12 participants to ensure the in depth learning for each of you and real exchange of knowledge and skills between peers. The intimate and homely atmosphere is is what makes this retreat unique.

Price: 3.995 DKR. This covers 25 hours of teaching and food/chef. We know you don’t make much money as a yoga teacher, so on this retreat we keep accommodation FREE. All you pay for is the food and the yoga. Between classes we will take turns helping the cook as needed and we will take care of the house together during the retreat.

Booking: mobile pay 28892450 inform us of your booking at: info@dynamicyoga.dk

Birgitte Gorm Hansen

Birgitte has been teaching workshops for yoga teachers for the past many years and have served as external examiner and guest teacher in several teacher trainings. Her 20 years of spiritual practice (14 of them teaching yoga) adds a rare depth and clarity to her work. Her workshops have inspired many students to let go of the need for external authority and allow the wisdom of their own body become the driving force in their practice. She has a nerdy and fun approach to exploring yoga practice and never ceases to learn from her body, her students, her colleagues and her teachers. Originally trained as a psychologist (PhD) Birgitte has taught well over 5000 hours of yoga. In the past 2 years she has been in training with zen master Genpo Roshi to become a Big Mind Facilitator.

1st June 2016
Registration open! YogaSomatics teacher training with Ateeka (Copenhagen)

We now welcome applications for our 10 module teacher training and mentorship program with Ateeka in Copenhagen. The training is 250 hours including mentoring program- Training begins in March 2017 and ends November 2018.Weekend modules begin and end a the following times:
Friday 10 – 17
Saturday 10 – 17
Sunday 10 – 14:30The last module in 2018 will be a retreat in italy.

See the FULL PROGRAM DETAILS PDF

APPLICATION FORM

This training and mentorship program will enrich your own yoga/movement practice and give you a new foundation and set of somatic practitioner skills for teaching yoga to others, or the bring a somatic perspective into health care and holistic therapeutic settings.You will learn deep integrative therapeutic techniques and meditative practices to help reduce stress, shift neuro-emotional/psycho-somatic patterns, awaken deep body consciousness, cultivate health, vitality and balance. You will learn effective mind-body connection practices for re-appropriating, grounding, circulating and utilizing life energy (prana). When life energy is flowing and balanced, one can access a vast potential for a healthy body, emotional equilibrium, mental clarity and deeper understanding of life process.

This training is an opportunity to bring depth to your experience of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual elements in your life, and how to share this with students and clients.

All modules include deep investigation into asana, movement, breath, sound, contact, embodied and energetic anatomy, collective symbols & archetypes, yoga philosophy from a somatic perspective. All modules include explorations made individually, in partners and with hands-on contact.

Please see detailed PDF document for full module program and content / practical details.

Simply by participating in this course, you will investigate how we can sensitively perceive and respond to others. The somatic communication skills learned in this part of the course are essential for those who wish to teach, and are very useful simply as human beings, in relation with one another in every moment. By participating in this course, you will be part of an amazing experiment of ideas, energy and manifestations in motion.

Read more about Ateeka here

15th March 2016
Teaching from unity (For yoga teachers)

Our commonsense understanding of the words “yoga” and “meditation” suggest that they are two separate things: One of the body and one of the mind. But as we go deeper into the practice either one, we find a deeper unity at their core.

A weekend workshop with special sessions for yoga teachers. You will need to attend the whole weekend workshop “Asana as meditation – Meditaiton as asana” in order to join the extra sessions for teachers. This is to ensure that you have an embodied understanding of the techniques we will be working with in the last session on sunday.

Saturday 9.00-9.40: Welcome and introductions (open to yoga teachers). What will be todays main teaching techniques? How to listen when you are a teacher/student attending a workshop.

Saturday 10.00-13.00: Asana as Meditation (open to all)
A dynamic yoga class exploring sensitive movement as meditation in action.

Saturday 14.30-17.30: Meditation as Asana (open to all)
Alternations between seated meditation periods and supine yoga posture flows releasing tension.

Saturday 9.00-9.40: Being breathed (open to yoga teachers)

A few words abut todays main teaching technique (svaramukta). Q&A from yesterdays workshop from a teaching perspective.

Sunday 10.00-13.00: Breathing into stilness (open to all)
A dynamic, sensitive yoga posture flow releasing the free rythm of the breath (svaramukta). The class makes a seamless transiton to a seated meditation practice towards the end.

Sunday 14.00-17.00: Teaching skills (open to yoga teachers) Inspirational workshop on how to teach asana as meditation. Alternating between dialogue and little practical explorations we break down the progressive instructions used in the previous workshop. Birgitte will guide collective explorations of two simple techniques to play with in your own practice and share with your students.

Open to trained and trainee yoga teachers from all branches of the yoga family tree.

Price for full course: 1.399 DKR

Booking: info@dynamicyoga.dk . Book your space by paying via bank transfer or mobile pay 28892450

3rd March 2016
Asana as meditation – Meditation as asana (3 mini-workshops i København)

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2nd March 2016
Teaching form Unity (for yoga teachers)

Our commonsense understanding of the words “yoga” and “meditation” suggest that they are two separate things: One of the body and one of the mind. But as we go deeper into the practice either one, we find a deeper unity at their core.

A weekend workshop with special sessions for yoga teachers. You will need to attend the whole weekend workshop “Asana as meditation – Meditaiton as asana” in order to join the extra sessions for teachers. This is to ensure that you have an embodied understanding of the techniques we will be working with in the last session on sunday.

Saturday 9.00-9.40: Welcome and introductions (open to yoga teachers). What will be todays main teaching techniques? How to listen when you are a teacher/student attending a workshop.

Saturday 10.00-13.00: Asana as Meditation (open to all)
A dynamic yoga class exploring sensitive movement as meditation in action.

Saturday 14.30-17.30: Meditation as Asana (open to all)
Alternations between seated meditation periods and supine yoga posture flows releasing tension.

Saturday 9.00-9.40: Being breathed (open to yoga teachers)

A few words abut todays main teaching technique (svaramukta). Q&A from yesterdays workshop from a teaching perspective.

Sunday 10.00-13.00: Breathing into stilness (open to all)
A dynamic, sensitive yoga posture flow releasing the free rythm of the breath (svaramukta). The class makes a seamless transiton to a seated meditation practice towards the end.

Sunday 14.00-17.00: Teaching skills (open to yoga teachers) Inspirational workshop on how to teach asana as meditation. Alternating between dialogue and little practical explorations we break down the progressive instructions used in the previous workshop. Birgitte will guide collective explorations of two simple techniques to play with in your own practice and share with your students.

Open to trained and trainee yoga teachers from all branches of the yoga family tree.

Price for full course: 1.399 DKR

Booking: info@dynamicyoga.dk . Book your space by paying via bank transfer. If you have a danish account you can book via mobile pay 28892450

12th February 2016
Workshop for yogalærere (Aarhus)

Det er en stor udfordring for yogalæreren at undervise eleven i at mærke efter sin egen krop i stedet for blot at følge dig. Dette giver plads til at du kan tale ud fra din egen levede erfaring men kræver også en del af din mundtlige instruktion. Vi bruger tre timer på at finpudse dine instruktioner sådan at du bliver bedre til at skelne mellem ”action” og ”impact”. Action er det som eleven ”gør” i stillingen mens impact er det som eleven kan mærke i respons til handlingen. Du får masser af mulighed for at instruere dine kolleger og afklare dit ordvalg og din egen forståelse af kroppens potentiale for sensitivitet.

Yogalærerworkshoppen bygger oven workshoppen “sensitivitet” som kører fra lørdag til søndag morgen. Den kræver således deltagelse i hele weekenden da klasserne inden ligger til grund for det vi laver på yogalærerworkshoppen.

Søndag 14.30-17.30

Pris, booking og spørgsmål:

10th October 2015
Weekend workshop: Sensitivitet (Århus)

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.

Workshoppen består af fire klasser der progressivt lærer dig at handle på det du selv kan mærke i form af fysiske sansefornemmelser. Vi arbejder med blide flows men også med restorative stillinger og meget subtile bevægelser der går på bindevæv og nervesystem. Ud over en øget kropsfornemmelse får du bevæget dig godt igennem og får et par tips til hvordan du kan få nervesystemet i ro når du har brug for hvile og afstresning. Hver klasse bygger ovenpå den næste så vi integrerer det vi tidligere har lært. Hver klasse er tre timer lang og indeholder fysiske stillnger, en lang afspænding samt eventuelt meditation eller dialog.

Lørdag 10.00-13.00 samt 14.00-17.00

Søndag 10.00-13.00

Workshoppen er åben for alle.

Søndag 14.30-17.00: Workshop for yogalærere

At undervise i sensitivitet

Det er en stor udfordring for yogalæreren at undervise eleven i at mærke efter sin egen krop i stedet for blot at følge dig. Dette giver plads til at du kan tale ud fra din egen levede erfaring men kræver også en del af din mundtlige instruktion. Vi bruger tre timer på at finpudse dine instruktioner sådan at du bliver bedre til at skelne mellem ”action” og ”impact”. Action er det som eleven ”gør” i stillingen mens impact er det som eleven kan mærke i respons til handlingen. Du får masser af mulighed for at instruere dine kolleger og afklare dit ordvalg og din egen forståelse af kroppens potentiale for sensitivitet.

Yogalærerworkshoppen bygger oven workshoppen “sensitivitet” som kører fra lørdag til søndag morgen. Den kræver således deltagelse i hele weekenden da klasserne inden ligger til grund for det vi laver på yogalærerworkshoppen.

priser:

Lørdag og Søndag workshop: 1300 kr. (early bird inden 31. oktober: 1150)

Yogalærerworkshop: 450 kr. (early bird inden 31. oktober: 400)

The Yoga Collective er ved at lave en aftale med en kok, sådan at du kan bestille frokost (vegetar/glutenfri/laktosefri) til ca 150 kr pr person (begge dage)

Booking: skriv til Nadia Lunn <nadialunn@gmail.com> eller book online på The Yoga Collectives hjemmeside

10th October 2015
The Teachers Retrerat (2 spaces left!)

Teaching yoga is a rewarding job in itself. It is also a job that takes a little extra. The originality and freshness of your teaching comes from the depth of your living practice. This retreat helps you find ways to teach from your body rather than from knowledge or belief. It is also an opportunity to get inspiration and peer support to help you thrive in your working life. We are open for trained (and trainee) yoga teachers from all branches of the yoga family tree. The retreat is not a training in any particular approach to yoga. Instead, we will refine the way you translate the feeling intelligence of your own body into verbal instructions. You will receive 35 hours of teaching in 5 days, deepening your somatic understanding of yoga posture practice.

A typical day

Each day begins early with a quiet sitting followed by a long flow-based yoga class addressing the theme of the day. You will learn to activate your body in a way that supports feeling sensation as the compass for your practice (as oposed to learning fixed principles of alignment or traditional “full” postures). Birgitte will take you through a structured sequence of classes based on becoming a little more sensitive to the changes in sensation within you. This way of teaching is an invitation for you to access an intelligent response to what you can feel from the wisdom of your own body. Each day will sensitize specific joints of the body and invite you to listen deeply to what they have to say.

Afternoons will focus on somatic self-enquiry and/or refining your teaching skills. Guided experiments on the mat will help you explore the difference between “action” and “impact” in yoga postures to help you get clearer about how instructions could be more helpful for your students. You will be introduced to two levels of verbal instruction useful to promote safety, clarity and depth in your teaching. You will spend time in groups clarifying muscular actions and their impacts in the body and playing with layers of instruction.

The evenings focus on dialogue and reflection. Birgitte will use the Big Mind process (developed by Genpo Roshi) to facilitate a group dialogue. We will explore themes and dilemmas that comes up for you professionally and find resources to support you where you are. The evenings are structured gruup dialouges allowing you to tap into the wisdom already within you.

Place: A beautiful 250-m2 house in Sweden, surrounded by a private forest. (at the border between Skåne and Blekinge, nearest town in Lönsboda) Accommodation in shared rooms . Maximum number of students is 10

Price: 4.895 DKR. This covers 35 hours of teaching and food/chef. We know you don’t make much money as a yoga teacher, so on this retreat we keep accommodation FREE and instead we help each other out around the house and kitchen during the retreat.

Birgitte Gorm Hansen

Birgitte has been teaching workshops for yoga teachers for the past many years and have served as external examiner and guest teacher in several teacher trainings. Her 20 years of spiritual practice (14 of them teaching yoga) adds a rare depth and clarity to her work. Her workshops have inspired many students to let go of the need for external authority and allow the wisdom of their own body become the driving force in their practice. She has a nerdy and fun approach to exploring yoga practice and never ceases to learn from her body, her students, her colleagues and her teachers. Originally trained as a psychologist (PhD) Birgitte has taught well over 5000 hours of yoga. In the past 2 years she has been in training with zen master Genpo Roshi to become a Big Mind Facilitator.

23rd August 2015