10-week course: „Endometriosis – Holistic Care Series“ with Malu Lopez
Oct 10 – Dec 12
Sa 14.30-16.30
Studio Berg
English
150€ / 130€ Reduced price for USC and yellow yoga membership
This 10-week course „Endometriosis – Holistic Care Series“ is a container aimed at people who have or suspect they have endometriosis, adenomyosis, severe menstrual pain, PMS or related pelvic pain conditions. Over ten weeks, we will explore what it means to live with these conditions from a place of deep understanding, offering a space that blends multifaceted self-care with movement, sound, and group-shared wisdom. We intend to create a cocoon for you to land and connect with others in similar circumstances, exploring together a variety of practices that support each individual in finding their own recipe of small, powerful changes that can improve daily life and help them thrive.
No previous experience is needed, but a willingness to listen to and respect your own body is essential.
Please register here for the course in Studio Berg.
Please register here for the reduced price, if you are using Urban Sports (3 additional check-ins via USC) or yellow yoga membership.
More info here.
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8-week course: „A Luminous Mind: Meditation Essentials“ with Anya Kinneavy
Oct 22 – Dec 17 (Nov 19 no class)
Th 19.30-20.45
Studio Sonne & Online
English
120€ in studio & online/ 100€ online only
In a world that is loud, distracting and overwhelming, meditation is a powerful tool to ground, re-connect and discover a sense of inner home. We often hear about the benefits of meditation, yet it can be difficult to know where to start and to keep the momentum alone. Together with Anya, a teacher with 20+ years’ experience in meditation, we will explore the essentials of this powerful practice together in an accessible, down-to-earth way with space for your questions and discussion.
Meditation is at the heart of yoga – in fact, it is its most ancient aspect. It is an essential practice for any yoga practitioner. Our thoughts have an immediate effect on our wellbeing. And in the whirlwind of push and pull in the mind, it’s easy to forget that we can influence how our minds operate, and therefore how we feel and act. The quality of our mind directly affects how we function in all aspects of life – at work, in relationships, our decision-making, our sleep quality… Meditation helps us to shift from distraction, anxiety and overthinking, into a state of greater objectivity, grounding and ease.
This 8-week course will explore the essential aspects of meditation – why we practice, how to practice, managing common obstacles along the way and practically bringing its wisdom into everyday life. You’ll have an accessible (and even enjoyable!) route into a regular practice. Meditation takes some time and practice. Usually many personal questions arise along the way, and it is important to understand why we meditate. Apps are limited in this regard. Taking a course with an experienced teacher in a supportive group is hugely valuable for long-term, lasting benefit. Everyone is welcome to join, with or without prior experience in yoga or meditation! This 8-week course is held in Studio Sonne and online via Zoom. If you choose to book the online-only course, you will receive the Zoom info to join the course together with your booking confirmation via email. If you book the course in Studio Sonne, you will also receive access to the Zoom link.
Please register here for the course in Studio Sonne.
Please register here for the Online-Only-Course.
More info here.
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3-week morning challenge: “Winter Self-Care: A Somatic Yoga Morning Practice for the Darker Half of the Year” with Liina Tael
Nov 09-27
Mo-Fr 08.00-09.15
Studio Berg & Online
weeks 1–2: Join in person at Studio Berg or online via Zoom.
week 3: Online for all participants – an intentional integration week to practice from home and allow the morning ritual to become part of your own daily rhythm.
English
195€ in studio + online + access to recordings for 6 months
165 € online only + access to recordings for 6 months
What if winter and darkness aren’t something you have to get through?
The days get shorter. The light gives way to darkness. Nature is preparing for hibernation. That is the natural cycle of descent into Yin. And yet, most of us are expected to carry on as usual. Stay productive. Make plans. Exercise. Work. Socialise. Keep going. This is partly why the darker months feel difficult. Not because there is something wrong with winter or wrong with us, but because there is so little room in our lives for the qualities that winter represents: slowness, darkness, quiet, uncertainty, conservation and rest.
What if we allowed the darker half of the year to have its own rhythm?
This three-week somatic practice series is an experiment in doing just that. For three weeks, we meet every weekday morning before the day gets going. We move, rest, breathe, listen, write and sometimes simply stay still. Not as another thing to accomplish, improve or optimize. But to spend some time together in sync with the season we are actually in and to honor the wisdom within the natural cycles.
As the writer and mythologist Michael Meade writes: “Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways.”
What you’ll get
Over three weeks, you’ll have 15 mornings of somatic yoga, movement and inquiry with the flexibility to participate in whatever way works for you.
Join us in person at Studio Berg, with the woodstove lit for you each morning; join the livestream via Zoom; or practice in your own time with the recordings.
All sessions are recorded and available to you for 6 months, giving you plenty of time to return to practices, revisit the series or make them part of your own rhythm long after the three weeks are over.
We’ll explore somatic movement, yin, restorative yoga, gentle flow, qigong, meditation, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, acupressure, The Five Elements and seasonal cycles, writing and self-inquiry, poetry – alongside silence, stillness and rest.
Week 1: Making space for rest
– What does it actually mean to slow down?
– Looking at our relationship with rest, productivity and slowing down.
– Exploring the wider meaning of yin, introduce somatic movement inquiry, and look at the nervous system and its relationship to rest and restoration.
– Exploring Dynamic Rest – rest that isn’t collapse or passivity, but about cultivating a state of quiet wakefulness, embodied awareness and responsiveness.
– The practices will move between somatics, yin, restorative yoga, gentle flow, qigong, meditation, breathwork, journaling and longer periods of rest.
Week 2: Living with the cycles
– Widening the lens to explore seasonal living and cyclicality through Taoist and Chinese medicine perspectives.
– Working with the Five Elements, exploring the transition from autumn’s Metal phase towards winter’s Water phase, and experiment with yoga, qigong and acupressure as ways of relating to these seasonal themes.
– Questioning the increasingly familiar language of self-care. When does self-care become another form of self-improvement?
– And what might happen if taking care of ourselves meant learning to listen rather than constantly trying to change?
Week 3: Integration – Taking the practice home
– The final week is intentionally different. After two weeks of practicing together in the studio and online, we move into an integration week.
– There are no in-person sessions this week. Instead, the practices meet you where you actually live – at home, in your own space, within the rhythm of your own mornings.
– There will be more space, less instruction and more opportunity to follow your own experience. The sessions become less about learning something new and more about letting the practices settle into your life.
– You can make your tea. Stay in your pyjamas. Look out the window. Practice in the space where you live your life. This final week is about beginning to find out how this way of moving, resting and paying attention can become a more seamless part of your own daily rhythm.
– We’ll continue exploring the Water element, winter, depth, instinct, trust and the unknown, while asking how our practice can ripple back into our relationships, our work and the way we show up in the world.
Please register here for the course in Studio Berg.
Please register here for the Online-Only-Challenge.
More info here.