The Beauty of Ashtanga Yoga
Purple Valley Tenerife Retreat, March 23 – April 6 2024
With Petri Räisänen
The traditional Ashtanga Yoga method was always meant to be adapted to the practitioners individual needs and conditions. So the Ashtanga asana sequences are the ground from which we can build our own personal practice based on our unique bodies, ages, identities, mind types, injuries and traumas.
At the Beauty of Ashtanga Yoga Retreat you will be accepted as you are and be encouraged to follow the traditional method with kindness, care and love.
I’m inviting everyone the opportunity to enjoy the practice, movement, spiritual growth and great company in beautiful Tenerife.
My hope is to open us all up to more diversity (which is required for a healthy yoga community), more safety (which makes everything to bloom) and more happiness (which is the essence of an individual and collective yoga process) wherever we are in our personal yoga evolution.
Purple Valley Goa has been running an European Purple Valley Retreats in Tenerife, Canary Islands. The resort is an amazing combination of all different artistic houses and buildings just few minutes away from the famous hotels and beaches, but in a completely peaceful environment. The shala is beautiful and the food amazingly tasty.
In this part of Tenerife (Playa Paraiso, Adeje) the sun is shining almost every day and the temperature is much higher than in many other parts of the island. There is summer all around the year.
You are kindly welcomed!
Petri Räisänen
Retreat schedule
Each week consists of 5 morning Mysore classes, 1 Led Primary or Intermediate Series class and 4 afternoon workshops.
Week 1 March 23-30 2024
Saturday 23.3
14:00-18:00 Arriving to the resort
18:00 Retreat opening discussion, schedule, introduction
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 24.3
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
15:00-17:00 Discussion on your personal practice and accessibility in Ashtanga Yoga;
What is your need? The Beauty of Ashtanga Yoga
17:00-18:00 Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting
18:30 Dinner
Monday 25.3
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
15:00-17:00 A practitioner-centered approach to Ashtanga asana and
adjustments
17:00-18:00 Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting
18:30 Dinner
Tuesday 26.3
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
Free Day
Wednesday 27.3
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
14:00-17:00 Primary and Intermediate series techniques and adjustments
17:00-18:00 Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting
Thursday 28.3
06:00 Led class Intermediate series
08:00 Led class Primary series
15:00-17:30 Touching the Prana: Energy healing techniques
17:30-18:15 Self Healing Meditation (guided)
Friday 29.3
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
Free Day
Saturday 30.4
7:00-8:00 Pranayama
8:00-9:00 Closing circle
Week 2 March 30 – April 6 2024
Saturday 30.3
14:00-18:00 Arriving to the resort
18:00 Retreat opening discussion, schedule, introduction
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 31.3
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
15:00-17:00 Discussion on your personal practice and accessibility in Ashtanga Yoga;
Using the tools; walls, blocks and belts in the practice
17:00-18:00 Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting
18:30 Dinner
Monday 1.4
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
15:00-17:00 A practitioner-centered approach to Ashtanga asana and
adjustments (different than in week 1)
17:00-18:00 Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting
18:30 Dinner
Tuesday 2.4
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
Free Day
Wednesday 3.4
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
14:00-17:00 Primary and Intermediate series techniques and adjustments (different than in week 1)
17:00-18:00 Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting
Thursday 4.4
06:00 Led class Intermediate series
08:00 Led class Primary series
15:00-17:30 Yoga philosophy: Yoga sutra chapter 3-4, Sinddhis and Kaivalya. The final transformation.
17:30-18:15 The earth and sky meditation (guided)
Friday 5.4
06:00 or 7:30 Mysore style (two groups)
Free Day
Saturday 6.4
7:00-8:00 Pranayama
8:00-9:00 Closing circle
