Saturday October 24th and Sunday October 25th, Stavanger
Walk into class knowing what your body is doing, and why
Picture stepping onto your mat and feeling at home. You know where your breath goes, how your feet want to land, and what the teacher’s cue means for your body. Class stops being something you keep up with and becomes something you enjoy.
This weekend is your ramp up. Two days to build a solid base under everything you practice next.
Yoga is easier to love when the basics feel familiar. Over two days, you get the building blocks that make every class richer, whether you’re stepping onto a mat for the first time or you’ve been showing up for a while and want more from each session.
You’ll explore yoga through the Ashtanga lens, a clear and time-tested system that gives your practice structure, rhythm and direction. Even if you go on to try other styles, the foundation stays with you.
What you’ll explore
Day 1: Arrive, breathe and get grounded
Breath that steadies your body and calms your mind, and how it guides every movement
Your stance: how to stand, balance and build strength from the ground up
Sun Salutations broken down step by step, so the flow makes sense in your body
Gaze and focus, the quiet skill that helps your attention settle
Day 2: Build, connect and take it home
Standing postures with alignment you can feel, so they work for your body
Moving and breathing together, and how that turns a set of poses into a practice
Closing and rest, and why the last part of practice matters as much as the first
Your own rhythm: how to practice at home, how to choose classes that suit you, and how to keep growing at your pace
The paradigm that makes it click
Alongside the poses, you’ll get a way of looking at practice. Posture, breath and gaze work together. Small, steady steps lead to lasting change. Your body sets the pace, and you get to choose how deep you go.
This way of seeing your practice is what makes each class more meaningful. You’ll leave with tools you can carry into any room, any teacher and any season of life.
Who can join
This weekend is a great fit if you:
Are brand new to yoga and want a gentle, clear start
Have tried a few classes and would like things to make more sense
Practice already and want a refresher on the fundamentals
Are curious about Ashtanga and want to know how it works before diving in
Would like more confidence in class, in your body and in your own practice
Come as you are. Every body is welcome, and there’s no such thing as too stiff, too new or too late to begin.
What you’ll leave with
A clear understanding of breath, alignment and movement
A short, doable sequence you can practice at home
More ease and confidence in group classes
A framework you can grow into, at your own pace
The pleasure of knowing what you’re doing on your mat
Practical details
Dates: Saturday October 24th and Sunday October 25th
Time: 13:00 -15:30
Place: The Yoga Nest, Kirkegata 32, Stavanger
Price: 1199
Spots: Limited, so everyone gets personal attention and space to ask questions
Bring: A mat (or borrow one from the studio), comfortable clothes and your curiosity
Give yourself a strong start
Two days can shape the way you practice for years. Take your place, bring a friend, and start building something that grows with you.
Imagine sitting into Padmasana without negotiating with your knees, or folding into Kurmasana with room to spare. Imagine your legs finding their way behind your head and your breath staying soft while they do. This workshop is a focused journey into the hips, drawing on the Ashtanga Intermediate Series, Nadi Shodhana, the “nerve cleansing” sequence.
Your hips hold much of your practice: the freedom in your seated postures, the ease in your twists, the lift in your arm balances. When they open, everything else follows.
What you’ll explore
🔹 Hip Opening Foundations: Discover how your hips, pelvis and lower back work together, so you can approach deep postures with clarity and confidence.
🔹 Leg-Behind-the-Head Postures: Enjoy a step-by-step path into Eka Pada Sirsasana and Dwi Pada Sirsasana, building mobility while your breath and focus stay steady.
🔹 Deep Rest in Yoga Nidrasana: Experience the balance of surrender and strength in one of the most grounding shapes in the series.
🔹 Firefly Pose Variations: Follow the path through Tittibhasana A, B, C and D, where open hips meet core strength and arm balance control.
What to expect
✅ Guided drills and variations, so every posture meets you exactly where you are today.
✅ Clear alignment insights that help you protect your knees and feel your hips do the work.
✅ Simple strategies you can take home and weave into your daily practice.
✅ A look at the energetic and philosophical side of the Intermediate Series, for a practice that reaches beyond the physical.
Your invitation
Whether you’re refining familiar postures or exploring new territory, you’re welcome here. This is a supportive space to explore at your own pace, ask questions and leave with more freedom in your body and more trust in your practice.
Your hips are ready when you are. Reserve your place and step into a practice that feels open, steady and yours.
Sunday 1 November, 13:00 to 15:30 | The Yoga Nest, Kirkegata 32, Stavanger
Picture yourself upside down, breathing slowly and evenly, feeling completely at home on your head. Steady. Light. Calm.
This afternoon is about helping you get there. Over two and a half hours, you explore the seven headstands of the Ashtanga Intermediate Series, one variation at a time, at a pace that suits your body and your practice.
What you explore
The seven headstands (Sirsasana variations) arrive towards the end of the Intermediate Series, and each one asks something a little different of you. Three keep your hands free (Mukta Hasta Sirsasana A, B and C) and four keep your hands bound (Baddha Hasta Sirsasana A, B, C and D). Together they refine your balance, your focus and your sense of control, and they invite a quiet steadiness that carries into the rest of your practice.
During the afternoon, you get to:
Discover how your hands, forearms and shoulders create a stable base, so your neck stays light and free
Feel how breath and bandhas lift you up, so the pose comes from lightness rather than effort
Explore preparations and steps you can bring straight back to your own mat or your Mysore practice
Meet any hesitation about going upside down with personal guidance and plenty of space to try
Leave knowing which variation is your next step, and how you can approach it
Is this for you?
Perhaps you are just beginning to explore the Intermediate Series. Perhaps you already practise these headstands and would love to refine them. Either way, you are welcome, and the afternoon meets you exactly where you are.
You’ve heard the words a hundred times. Mula Bandha. Root lock. Engage your core. Someone in class whispered it like it was a secret password, and you nodded along, quietly wondering if you were doing it at all.
Here’s the good news: you’re about to find out.
This workshop invites you to get playful with one of the most talked-about, least understood parts of your practice. Whether you’re brand new to the mat or deep into your Ashtanga series, you’ll walk away with a felt sense (not just a theory) of what Mula Bandha actually is, where your core really lives, and how the two work together to change everything from your jump-throughs to your breath.
What you’ll explore:
What Mula Bandha feels like in your own body, no guessing required
How your core is so much more than “abs”, and how that changes your practice
Simple, repeatable ways to find and feel these actions on your mat, not just in theory
The connection between bandhas, breath, and the effortless lightness they’re famous for
You’ll leave with your own experience to draw on, some laughter and a much clearer relationship with two words that have probably mystified you for years.
12 week NLP course for Yoga, Fitness and Wellness Professionals starting October 18th
Yoga is a journey of self-awareness, transformation, and connection. As yoga teachers, we guide students through Yoga, fitness and wellness are journeys of self-awareness, transformation, and connection. As professionals, we guide clients and students through breath, movement, training, and mindfulness to help them cultivate balance in body and mind. But what if we could enhance this process by understanding the language of the mind itself? This is where Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) becomes a powerful tool.
What if your words could guide a deeper change in your students, clients — and yourself?
What if your words were powerful enough to light that spark in those you work with… and deepen your own presence as a professional?
Join our 12-week NLP journey designed for yoga teachers, fitness coaches, instructors, and wellness professionals. You’ll discover how subtle shifts in language, pacing, and sensory attention can help you hold space with clarity, calm, and real connection.
NLP helps us understand how the human mind interprets and processes information, collecting input through the sensory system and running it through our internal maps of the world. This process involves filtering, adding missing information, and making meaning by filling in blanks. Understanding this allows us to refine our language, perceptions, and behavior to make communication more effective.
We process information primarily through three key sensory channels:
Visual Processing: How we interpret the world through sight, images, and spatial awareness.
Auditory Processing: How we process sounds, language, and verbal communication.
Kinesthetic Processing: How we perceive and understand through touch, movement, and sensation.
Beyond these sensory modalities, NLP also considers meta models and meta programs, which act as unconscious filters shaping how we interpret experiences. These filters, unique to each individual, influence thought patterns, decision-making, and emotional responses. By understanding these differences, we can refine communication, enhance learning, and help shift perspectives more effectively.
Imagine how two people can experience the same situation but interpret it completely differently. Why does one person see a challenge as an opportunity while another feels stuck? NLP provides insight into these differences and offers strategies to shift perspectives toward growth and empowerment.
Guiding others goes beyond delivering sequences, workouts, or techniques; it’s about creating an experience that supports growth, awareness, and transformation. Whether you teach yoga, coach fitness, or work in wellness, NLP offers tools that deepen this process.
The Power of Language
Different words trigger different thought processes. In a meditation class, personal training session, or group fitness setting, the language you choose influences how information is received and processed. If new instructions are given before someone has completed processing the previous ones, it can create cognitive overload rather than clarity. By understanding how language influences thought patterns, you can allow space for words to settle, ensuring your cues guide rather than overwhelm.
Words shape perception. How you phrase cues, offer encouragement, and structure instructions can significantly impact a client’s experience. NLP helps refine communication so that language supports clarity, confidence, and empowerment.
Understanding Learning Styles
Every person processes information differently. NLP identifies three primary learning modalities:
Visual Learners respond best to imagery and demonstrations.
Auditory Learners thrive with clear verbal instructions.
Kinesthetic Learners connect deeply through physical experience and sensation.
By incorporating all three styles into your teaching or coaching, you create a more inclusive and effective learning environment.
Building Rapport and Connection
Connection is the foundation of effective guidance. NLP techniques like mirroring body language, pacing breath patterns, and active listening can help establish trust and strengthen the professional-client relationship.
Shifting Limiting Beliefs
Many clients (and professionals) carry unconscious beliefs that limit progress – “I’m not flexible enough,” “I’ll never get stronger,” or “I’m not good at this.” NLP provides tools to recognize and reframe these limiting thoughts, supporting a growth-oriented mindset in and beyond the training space.
Anchoring Positive States
NLP teaches how to create “anchors”—associations that trigger specific emotional states. In a class or coaching session, this might involve using a particular breath technique, cue, movement pattern, or focus point to help clients access calm, confidence, or concentration when they need it.
Integrating NLP into Your Teaching or Coaching
A professional with NLP skills can enhance their ability to guide others by adapting communication to learning modalities, building rapport, and fostering confidence—both in themselves and in those they work with.
Adapting Communication to Learning Modalities: By recognizing whether someone responds primarily to visual, auditory, or kinesthetic input, you can tailor instructions more effectively. Using imagery for visual learners, clear structured cues for auditory learners, and experiential guidance for kinesthetic learners increases engagement and understanding.
Building Rapport: Techniques such as mirroring posture, matching breathing rhythms, and active listening help create trust and openness.
Enhancing Client Confidence: By applying strategies like reframing negative thoughts and reinforcing progress, you support a shift from “I can’t do this” to “I am improving step by step.”
Developing Confidence as a Professional: NLP also strengthens your ability to communicate clearly, navigate group dynamics, and respond to different personalities with composure and presence.
Bringing NLP into your sessions doesn’t require a complete overhaul. It begins with subtle shifts in how you communicate, observe, and guide:
Use Empowering Language: Replace restrictive phrasing with supportive direction.
Observe and Adapt: Notice how individuals respond to verbal cues, demonstrations, or experiential guidance.
Encourage Positive Mindset Shifts: Support curiosity and self-compassion over self-criticism.
Create Emotional Anchors: Introduce techniques that clients can access beyond the class or session.
The Path Forward
Integrating NLP is about refining how you create space for transformation. As you apply these principles, you may notice deeper connection, clearer communication, and greater confidence in your professional role.
Begin by observing how people respond to different communication styles. Experiment with pacing your instructions and allowing space for processing. Small adjustments can influence how experiences are perceived and integrated.
Whether you work with breath, movement, strength, rehabilitation, or mindset, NLP enhances your ability to support sustainable change – physically, mentally, and emotionally.
🧘 International Yoga Day Festival – Stavanger Jun 21st 2026
Bringing together movement, mindfulness, community, and personal growth, the festival creates a space for meaningful connection, inspiration, and transformation. We’re honored to contribute to an event that aligns so closely with our values and vision.
We look forward to sharing practices, experiences, and conversations that support well-being, awareness, and conscious living.
See you there!
📍 Professor Olav Hanssensvei 7A, 4021 Stavanger
To sign up for the festival workshops, please download Conscious Flow AI and the festival using the links below.
Build confidence in hands-on adjustments, alignment, and teaching technique through 6 progressive weekend workshops. Join one module or the full Yoga Alliance–accredited series.
Touch that teaches. Presence that transforms.
A progressive series of 3 weekends (6 workshop days) where you get to feel alignment, understand what you see, and practice hands-on adjustments with clarity and care.
Whether you’re already teaching, preparing to teach, or simply curious about how skillfully deepen your practice, this is a space where your confidence can grow, one adjustment at a time.
Join a full weekend, or take the full series as part of our Yoga Alliance–accredited Teacher Training / Continuing Education pathway.
This is hands-on, skill-focused training and learning will land in your hands, not only in your head.
You’ll practice
Effective, supportive adjustments that respect bodies and boundaries
Safe alignment techniques you can apply across different bodies
Anatomy + biomechanics made practical (so your teaching becomes clearer)
Teaching methodology that helps you cue, observe, and assist with confidence
And just as importantly: the subtle skill of knowing when not to adjust, when holding space is the most powerful choice.
Who can join
If you’ve ever thought “I wish I knew exactly what to do with my hands” you’ll feel at home here.
This series welcomes:
Yoga practitioners who want to enhance technique and embodiment
Aspiring teachers who want a strong foundation before stepping forward
Certified teachers who want more confidence, clarity, and options in assists
200h / 300h Teacher Training students (these weekends are included as part of the program)
Workshop Series Overview (3 weekends / 6 workshop days)
Each weekend builds your skills through hands-on repetition, feedback, and real teaching practice, then the next weekend takes you deeper. Across the series, you’ll explore four core themes:
Foundation & Stability — understanding balance, alignment, and what to observe before you touch
Deepening Adjustments — techniques that support flexibility and safe assists
Energy & Breath Connection — using touch to refine breath awareness and presence
Building Confidence as a Teacher — hands-on practice in a teaching environment, so you can apply what you learn
How the series is structured
Across these workshop weekends, you’ll work through the full Primary Series, asana by asana and your hands learn what your eyes see.
Module 1 — Sun Salutations and Standing Sequence
You’ll refine Sun salutations and the standing asanas: foundations, balance, transitions, and how to assist with stability and clarity.
Module 2 — Up to Half Primary
You’ll continue through the sequence from where the standing postures end up to Half Primary, building confidence in assists, alignment choices, and teaching cues.
Module 3 — Full Primary + Closing Sequence
You’ll complete the work through the remainder of Primary Series, including the closing sequence—with special attention on safe depth, breath, and consistency.
Dates (6 workshop days)
Module 1 — Standing Sequence
Technique & Adjustment WS1: Saturday March 14th
Technique & Adjustment WS2: Sunday March 15th
Module 2 — Up to Half Primary
Technique & Adjustment WS3: Saturday March 21st
Technique & Adjustment WS4: Sunday March 22nd
Module 3 — Full Primary + Closing Sequence
Technique & Adjustment WS5: Saturday March 28th
Technique & Adjustment WS6: Sunday March 29th
Taking this as YTT200 / Yoga Alliance education
These weekends can count as part of an accredited training/continuing education pathway (when combined with the full requirements of the program).
Pre-requisites (for YTT200 pathway)
To help you get the most out of the hands-on work, you’ll complete:
Selected sessions from the Online Anatomy Course before attending
Selected sessions from the Online Ashtanga Foundation Course before attending
A commitment to Mysore practice the following week, so your learning integrates into your body (not just your notes)
How to register
Spots are limited so you get personalized attention and feedback.
Choose your path
Join one weekend (Module 1, 2, or 3)
Join the full series (all 3 weekends)
If you’re choosing a single weekend, you’re still getting a complete learning arc 2 workshop days to practice, repeat, and let the work land.
A Transformative Journey into Ashtanga Yoga | March – July 2026
Take the next step of self-discovery, deepen your connection to yoga, and step confidently into your true potential as a teacher or practitioner with our 200-hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training. Whether you dream of mastering your practice, guiding others with confidence, or simply immersing yourself in the transformative power of yoga, this training is designed for you, this program combines self-paced learning, weekend workshops, Mysore integration, and an immersive 2-week intensive in Stavanger, Norway.
Why This Journey is Meant for You
✔️ Flexible Learning: Structured study, weekend workshops & guided Mysore practice ✔️ Personalized Training: Small-group adjustments & in-depth technique refinement ✔️ Expert Guidance: Learn from experienced teachers in a supportive environment ✔️ Yoga Alliance Certification: RYT-200 accredited training
Program Structure
📖 March – June 2026: Build Your Foundation & Ignite Your Passion
Foundations: Asana technique, breathwork, and applied anatomy
Philosophy & Pranayama: Yoga Sutras, Ayurveda, meditation, and breath mastery
Mysore Integration: Weekly guided Mysore practice to apply workshop learnings
🔥 July 2025: Your Immersive Yoga Transformation in Norway
