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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.
Life Bliss: A 5-Day Chakra Healing Home Program - Online
With Satya Katiza & Kevin Sahaj
03 March 2021
In our bodies, there are seven chakras, or energy centres, that are responsible for the proper functioning of the body, mind, and soul. When any one of them is low on energy, the system malfunctions and the associated part of the body gets diseased (so will the mind, so will the soul - heart & emotions).
Online
Trauma Sensitive Yoga: Foundational Training (20-hour) - Online
With Esther van der Sande
17 April 2021
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Foundational Training April Online As we have been monitoring the situation to determine when it will become possible to host in-person, we have decided after last week press conference that the training for April will be held online.
Online
Meeting the Heart: A 3-Day Program - Online
With Satya Katiza & Kevin Sahaj
23 April 2021
This is a great opportunity for everyone with any yoga practice interested in discovering and meeting their own heart and looking for further guidance and inspiration: a 3-day online program guided by Satya Katiza and Kevin Sahaj.
Online
Yoga & Mindfulness to empower emotional wellbeing (50-hour Training) - Online
With Kristin Vikjord
07 May 2021
Mindfulness to empower emotional wellbeing Would you like to boost your inner spark? Would you like to reduce stress or lockdown fatigue? Would you like to calm your mind and learn mindfulness fully? We can’t change the circumstances we live in, but we can do something about how we deal with them.
Online
Yoga Nidra Training (for Yoga Teachers)
With Moena de Jong
08 May 2021
The art of relaxation and achieving a state of deeper awareness. Yoga Nidra (or Yogic sleep practice) means sleep with a trace of awareness. It is a state of mind between wakefulness and dream. During the practice of Nidra, our consciousness travels from one layer of consciousness to another.
Amsterdam
Yoga & Ayurveda (50-hour)
With Victoria (Tory) Raven Hyndman
14 May 2021
Yoga & Ayurveda are really impossible to bring apart, they are an inseparable pair, 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.
Amsterdam
Astanga Sadhana: A Practitioners' Program
With Claudia Pradella & Eva Ugolini
15 May 2021
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
Meeting the Mind: A 3-Day Program - Online
With Satya Katiza & Kevin Sahaj
21 May 2021
This is a great opportunity to (un-)mind the Mind and dive within its infinite universe: a 3-day online program guided by Satya Katiza and Kevin Sahaj.
Online
Yoga & Healing (50-hour)
With Kevin Sahaj
03 July 2021
Join Sahaj in this 50-hour workshop as he guides you on a journey of awakening and a deepening of your awareness of yourself on an experiential level. Sahaja Healing Yoga is a series of practices synthesized from Tibetan Yoga, Chinese Qi Gong, Hatha Yoga, Tibetan medicine and Ayurveda.
Den Haag
Restorative Yoga Training (35-hour)
With Adelene Cheong
27 August 2021
A 35-hour Relax and Restore Intensive Yoga Training 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
Foundation on Ayurveda (50-hour)
With Victoria (Tory) Raven Hyndman
29 September 2021
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. The best way of learning and integrating anything into our life is through direct experience.
Amsterdam
Yogi Facilitator Training: Applied Psychology for Yogis - Online
With Kristin Vikjord
22 October 2021
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, in which we learn a lot about how our brain works and about the psychology of the psyche.
Online
Yoga Nidra & Healing the Inner Elements: A 50-Hour Training for Teachers
With Moena de Jong
27 October 2021
In this 50-hour training for yoga teachers, you will refine your knowledge of advanced skills in guiding your students during Yoga Nidra: the magical journey that expresses the art of relaxation and achieving a state of deeper awareness.
Amsterdam
Yin Yoga Masterclass: 20-Hour Foundational Training
With Daphne Luttger
06 November 2021
This 3-day training is meant for students who would like to have a deeper understanding of yin yoga and the practice of yin yoga. What happens in our body when we are in a posture for a long period of time? How do the archetypal poses relate to meridians, organs, and emotions?
Amsterdam
Yogi Facilitator Training: Find Ease in Unease by Knowing Yourself - Online
With Kristin Vikjord
26 November 2021
In momentous transition times or difficult periods of life, it can be challenging to find ease and achieve emotional well-being (called Sukha in Buddhist tradition). Eastern thinkers and practices already knew that recovery from suffering requires knowing yourself.
Online
Yogi Facilitator Training: Guiding a Transformational Process - Online
With Kristin Vikjord
10 December 2021
Guiding someone in a transformational process is an intimate form of reciprocity. It requires trust, respect, a skill set of how to facilitate, and knowledge about what impacts such a process.
Online
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