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Info & Prices for Additional workshops

These workshops are optional and will be charged separately. They are not included in the Basic Yoga prices.

Additional workshops

125-200 € / week – Jan 4 – 27, weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4

In addition to the standard yoga program, we offer affordable and inspiring workshops each week. The workshops are designed for students of all levels.

These workshops are optional and will be charged separately. They are not included in the Basic Yoga prices. Please see Additional workshops for details.

Petri’s Energy Healing Workshop – Jan 4- 13, weeks 1-2; 125€ first week, 200€ second week

Hands on Adjustments Workshop – Jan 16-27, weeks 3-4; 200€ week

Both workshops are suitable for anyone with an interest in how the body, mind and energy are used when giving hands-on adjustments in the yoga poses and in the Finnish tradition of energy healing. We focus on observing and learning the language of the body, mind and energy while giving therapeutic adjustments, and to develop a deep and trusting connection with the students.

Energy Healing Workshop – opening the senses towards the prana (energy) and hidden states of mind

We will practice several energy-healing techniques in the Finnish tradition which Petri learned from master healers, Pentti Penttilä, Pentti Mäkelä and Raimo Holtti. The techniques come from the ancient Finnish healing tradition called Jäsenkorjaus (bone or limb setting) and is, in many parts, similar to osteopathy. Some of the techniques used in this tradition involve giving physical adjustments, energy healing, herbal healing, wet and dry cupping and healing with power words (similar with mantras). The workshop will cover mainly the energy healing part with few gentle physical adjustments for the feet and ankles.

Petri started studying Energy healing in Kaustinen, Finland in 1986. In addition to teaching yoga, Petri worked as a folk healer and naturopath and ran a natural treatment business in Helsinki, Finland from 1991-1998.

The energy-healing techniques are based on sensing and locating the blocks in the flow of energy throughout the body. We approach the more subtle layer of the body, beyond the physical, and work on releasing energy blocks, using the most natural tools available: our mind, senses and the energy itself.

Students do not need any previous energy-healing experience or special skills to join in the workshop.

Hands on Adjustments – More than just a physical support

The main theme in this course is built on the idea that adjustments are more than just physical support for the yoga positions. The ideal yoga adjustment incorporates the aspects that make up the Ashtanga yoga tradition – along with a teacher’s knowledge and life- experience – combined with a therapeutic touch, healing treatment and the love of giving. This is the recipe to establishing long-term trust between the student and teacher while developing the practice naturally, as the body and mind slowly open up and obstacles are removed. Every adjustment will be safe and gentle, but at the same time deep and effective. Without an understanding of the body, psychology, posture technique, alignment, breath and movement of prana, it is not possible to accomplish a good adjustment.

In this course, we will primarily focus on poses in the first series of Ashtanga yoga. We will also cover the most important and utilized adjustments found in the second series. The poses, vinyasa, breathing and drishti follow in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, as it is taught in Mysore, India.

Students don’t need any previous adjustment or teaching experience to join in the workshop.

Ro Averin’s Yoga Sutras online workshop – Jan 8 – 13, week 2; 125€/week

Always Already There: Equity and Justice in the Yoga Sutras – Join Ro for a walk through the Yoga Sutras with an eye on practices that support Social Justice and Anti-racism work. This workshop will be held online and will be available to in-person retreat participants as well as those joining us virtually.

Ro is a longtime yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practitioner who has practiced in various traditions for the last eighteen years, and taught since 2016. Finding equity and social/racial/environmental justice as a passion and calling in their working and personal life while engaging in her established practices, the connections between their somatic and spiritual praxis and their political/activist/educational praxis soon became increasingly clear. Integrating yogic principles, breath and bodywork tools into social justice education and consulting has provided Ro with a more powerful tangible roadmap than otherwise would have been possible. 
Through this workshop series, Ro will guide participants through a grounding look at what role yogic practice has to play in struggles for equity and justice, and how principles of, and commentary on, equity and justice have always been present in the yoga sutras and yogic philosophy. 

Miss Nhong’s Thai Massage/Healing workshop 8000 BHT – Jan 20-25, week 3.

Miss Nhong is a local Healer who has a great understanding about the body, energy and Thai traditional healing methods. She has cured many yogis’ pains and injuries. The workshop will be paid in cash to Miss Nhong. Please book the spot for the workshop by emailing for us (not to Miss Nhong).

If you need a receipt from Miss Nhong’s workshop, please ask her to write it for you.

Day trips and other activities

Day trips and other activities are optional and will be charged separately. Prices do not include flights, speedboats, airport transfers, travel insurance or our additional workshop programs.