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Special Trainings
Immersion and intensives to broaden your skills as a teacher or dedicated yoga practitioner
The Programs
Explore our immersions and workshops on selected topics or teaching skills
As long as you walk the yogic path, you are a student, whether teaching or practicing with dedication (or both). Beginner's Mind is Open Mind. We offer educational programs in selected aspects of the practice to keep you inspired, to provide you guidance where you feel the need for it, and to explore different areas of yourself through the ancient practices of yoga and meditation. Presented by our most experienced teachers or by special guest teachers, these shorter programs aim to help you refining your practice and teaching skills.
Prison Yoga Training
With James Fox
13 September 2019
Offering Yoga and Mindfulness in Prisons and Jails. The Prison Yoga Project, in collaboration with Delight Yoga, is offering a special workshop for yoga teachers and committed yoga practitioners interested in working with people who have been impacted by trauma.
Amsterdam
Astanga Sadhana: A Practitioners' Program
With Claudia Pradella & Eva Ugolini
21 September 2019
A practitioners’ program Exploring the depths of your yoga practice, according to the eight limbs of Astanga Yoga. This year long program is for the dedicated Astanga Yoga practitioners, already familiar with the traditional mysore-style of self practice and ready to expand the context of their yoga sadhana – spiritual practice.
Amsterdam
Foundation on Ayurveda (50 hours)
With Victoria (Tory) Hyndman
25 September 2019
Yoga and Ayurveda are like inseparable siblings – the union of Universal Wisdom. The combination of these two sciences brings forth a system of healing for physical, mental and spiritual health and happiness.
Amsterdam
Astanga Yoga 5 day Intensive
With Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor
13 October 2019
We're very honoured to welcome Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor for the first time to Delight Yoga in Amsterdam to teach a 5 day intensive in the Vondelkerk.
Amsterdam
Yogi Facilitator Training: Find ease in Unease by knowing yourself
With Kristin Vikjord Paternotte
15 November 2019
In significant transition times or difficult periods of life, it is challenging to find ease and achieve emotional wellbeing (Sukha). Eastern thinkers and practices knew that recovery from suffering required knowing yourself.
Den Haag
Restorative Yoga Training (30hrs)
With Adelene Cheong
27 November 2019
A 30-hours Relax and Restore Intensive. To 'rest', to 'relax' and to 'restore' is a natural vital process in our lives. Rest supports optimal physiological functioning and promotes healing and growth.
Amsterdam
Yogi Facilitator Training: Applied Psychology for Yogis
With Kristin Vikjord Paternotte
17 January 2020
The field of contemporary yoga and mindfulness-based practices invites students into the psychology of their being. Arguably, contemporary yogis need the competence of applied psychology.
Amsterdam
Yoga & Ayurveda (50 hrs)
With Victoria (Tory) Hyndman
22 January 2020
Yoga & Ayurveda are really impossible to bring apart, they are inseparable brother and sister, they are the union of the Universal Wisdom. The union of these two sciences brings forth a system of healing for physical, mental and spiritual health and happiness. The best way of learning and integrating anything into our life is through direct experience.
Amsterdam
Trauma Sensitive Yoga : 20 hrs Foundational Training
With Esther van der Sande
07 February 2020
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) : a 20-hrs Foundational Workshop for Yoga Teachers & Mental Health Professionals
Amsterdam
Foundational Course Pranayama (Pre-Teacher Training)
With Sri Sudhir Tiwari
15 February 2020
We are very happy and honoured to announce that Sri Sudhir Tiwari is coming back to Amsterdam for a whole weekend of teachings. We are grateful for his precious time that he is willing to spend with us.
Amsterdam
Yogi Facilitator Training: Guiding a transformational process
With Kristin Vikjord Paternotte
06 March 2020
Guiding someone in a transformational process is an intimate reciprocity. It requires trust, respect, a skill set of how to facilitate, and knowledge about what impacts such a process. This workshop is for you who are interested in or facilitates others in transformational processes.
Amsterdam
Sva Dharma Practice & Sangha Day
With Katiza Satya
03 May 2020
During the Sva Dharma Practice & Sangha Day, you are warmly invited to practice together with the students of the Advanced Teacher Training 2020 under the guidance of Katiza Satya and her teaching assistants.
Amsterdam
Yoga & Mindfulness (50 hours)
With Kristin Vikjord Paternotte
03 June 2020
The integration of yoga and mindfulness takes us beyond the realm of asana and physical practice. We invite ourselves to an attitude of awareness, where kindness, compassion and curiosity is practiced for us to open the gateway to be in the moment, to freedom.
Amsterdam
Yoga & Healing (50 hrs)
With Kevin Sahaj
31 August 2020
Sahaja Healing Yoga is a series of practices synthesized from Tibetan Yoga, Chinese Qi Gong, Hatha Yoga, Tibetan medicine and Ayurveda. Sahaja is a Sanskrit word meaning "spontaneous and natural" meaning the source of healing is within us as a natural spontaneous expression of connection and balance.
Amsterdam
Foundation on Ayurveda (50 hours)
With Victoria (Tory) Hyndman
23 September 2020
Yoga and Ayurveda are like inseparable siblings – the union of Universal Wisdom. The combination of these two sciences brings forth a system of healing for physical, mental and spiritual health and happiness.
Amsterdam
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