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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.
Astanga Sadhana: A Practitioners' Program
With Claudia Pradella & Eva Ugolini
21 August 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
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
25 October 2021
In this 50-hour training for yoga teachers, you will refine your knowledge on 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
Essentials of Yin Yoga (20-Hour Foundation Course)
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
The Art of Flow: Vinyasa Krama for Yoga Teachers (50-Hour Training)
With Fleur van Zonneveld & Moena de Jong
20 November 2021
In this 50-hour training for yoga teachers, you will deepen your knowledge on Vinyasa and Vinyasa Krama while exploring the Art of Flow.
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
Trauma Sensitive Yoga: Foundational Training (20-Hour)
With Esther van der Sande
20 May 2022
Trauma-Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY): a 3-day Foundational Training for Yoga Teachers, Mental Health Professionals, GGZ professionals, Coaches, & Educators.
Amsterdam
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