Visiting teacher 10-16 August 2024
We are very excited to announce that Gregor Maehle will be coming to Lime House Yoga in August 2024 for a weekend of workshops and a week of Ashtanga Mysore Self Practice.
Gregor Maehle began his yogic practices 45 years ago. He has studied with various yogic and tantric masters, traditional Indian sadhus and ascetics. He spent fourteen months in Mysore, and in 1997 was authorised to teach Ashtanga Yoga by K. Pattabhi Jois. He has written 8 books, that have been translated into eight different languages and has authored over 300 articles on yoga. This is your chance to study with a true yogic master.
Weekend Workshops. 10th – 11th August 2024
Gregor Maehle will begin with a led Ashtanga class* followed by afternoon workshop, Yogic Meditation (chakra-Kundalini meditation). There will be two more workshops on Sunday Pranayama and Kriya, and Karma Yoga – How To Find Your Life’s Divine Purpose
Ashtanga Mysore Self Practice. 12th – 16th August 2024
This week will consist of five morning’s of Ashtanga Mysore self practice
* This will be instead of the normal Saturday 8am class taught by Jock.
You can book the Saturday and Sunday workshops individually or all together. You will get a discount if you buy all of the workshops together.
The five days of Mysore can only be booked as a block, you cannot buy individual day places for the Mysore week.
We offer a payment plan for purchasing all of the weekend workshops along with the Mysore self-practice week, however the payment plan option is only available through the website and not the App. When you get to checkout select the payment plan option.
Here Gregor Maehle will analyse the many intricate anatomical details of the majority of the postures of the Primary Series, while maintaining as much pace as possible.
The focus will be on breaking down the various phases of entering and exiting the postures into their constituents. Performing postures safely while understanding which anatomical actions will get us deep into the asanas will prevent unnecessary energy expenditure.
Through inducing precision this format also achieves that conditioning and emotions lodged in bodily tissue are released, preparing us for the higher limbs of pranayama and meditation..
Different to Vedantic or Buddhist meditation, yogic meditation contains the same structural elements as yogic postures and breathing and was designed to form together with those an integrated whole. Meditation is the method of bringing your mind into a receptive state so that you can receive higher knowledge that is already there.
Yogic meditation is a collection of scientific methods to bring about such awareness. To accelerate spiritual evolution yogic meditation employs many means amongst which the prime ones are mantra, mudra, bandha, chakra-visualization and Kundalini-raising techniques.
The yogic chakras are representations of evolutionary brain circuitry with the lower three chakras representing our reptilian, mammalian and primate ancestry respectively. By understanding the chakras and skillfully meditating on them yoga offers the opportunity to activate higher brain centres and propel the evolution not only of the individual but of society as a whole.
Kundalini-raising techniques consist of a combination of all other yogic means to raise the life force (prana) to a level where meditation is easy and spiritual insight becomes spontaneous.
Imagine how great it would be to have a switch that, when operated, would enable you to consciously choose between your right and left brain hemispheres, intuitive and analytical intelligence, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, fight/flight reflex and rest/relaxation, and between the male and female, solar and lunar, aspects of your psyche.
How great it would be if, when required, you could switch from being compassionate to doggedly determined. Or from charged with energy to completely relaxed within a few minutes. Or from extrovert (physically present, expressive and outgoing) to introvert (reflective and absorbing) within a short time.
This switch does in fact exist and it is not at all hidden. It is the prominently protruding olfactory orifice right in the middle of your face: your nose.
Pranayama includes some of the most neglected but yet most powerful methods of yoga. Pranayama is the vital link that connects asana to meditation without which the combined benefit of both cannot be harvested. Learn how to use pranayama to harmonize the doshas (humors of the body) and thus attain a state of health and balance as well as how to still the mind, enabling spiritual insight.
The kriyas are predominantly methods of purification of the body. They support the work of postures and are especially important for people who live in large cities. They aid in removing contamination from chemical, environmental, electrical, biological and electromagnetic sources.
Do you remember a time when you knew that your life would be amazing and that you would live to make a meaningful contribution to life on Earth and the life of others? And then what happened? Somehow our education and the process of enculturation cut us off from this sacred knowledge and élan vital. We became cynics and “realists”.
Since time immemorial human societies were organized around the idea that the life of the individual and of society have divine purpose. This workshop traces this knowledge to indigenous cultures, to the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible and the Yoga Sutra. Our loss of this knowledge is what has led to our environmental destruction and the 6th mass extinction of life as well as the current epidemic of mental disorders.
This workshop not only shows how we lost the knowledge that all life is sacred and purposeful, it also introduces layers of technique to lead us back to finding and gradually implementing our life’s divine purpose.
Also covered are:
The Mysore-style format will give students the opportunity to integrate the information learning in the Led class and also for Gregor to give individual attention to student’s needs.
Gregor Maehle will guide you through an Ashtanga Vinyasa class where he will analyse the many intricate anatomical details of the majority of the postures of the Primary Series, while maintaining as much pace as possible.
Guided Ashtanga Class/Workshop – Saturday 10th August. 08:00 – 10:30
Yogic Meditation (chakra-Kundalini meditation) – Saturday 10th August. 12:00 – 15:00
Pranayama and Kriya – Sunday 11th August. 09:00 – 12:00
Karma Yoga – How To Find Your Life’s Divine Purpose – Sunday 11th August. 13:00 – 16:00
Yogic Meditation (chakra-Kundalini meditation) – Saturday 10th August. 12:00 – 14:30
Five days of Mysore Self Practice Mornings – Monday 12th – Friday 16th August. 06:30-09:00
“Helena Rosenthal invited me to talk about the recurring wars that we seem to get involved in. There is an imperative to pick a side and join a team but by fighting against each other we are distracted from cooperating on the issues of our age, i.e fighting climate change and mass extinction of live. The approach I took was to deconstruct the historical, spiritual, psychological and political implications of 5000 years of permanent warfare.”
Gregor Maehle began his yogic practices 45 years ago. In the mid-1980s he commenced annual travels to India, where he studied with various yogic and tantric masters, traditional Indian sadhus and ascetics. He spent fourteen months in Mysore, and in 1997 was authorised to teach Ashtanga Yoga by K. Pattabhi Jois. Since then he has branched out into researching the anatomical alignment of postures and the higher limbs of yoga.
In India Gregor also received eight months of mostly one-on-one instruction in scripture and the higher limbs of Yoga through B.N.S. Iyengar, a student of T. Krishnamacharya, and he studied Sanskrit under Professor Narayanachar and Dr Chandrasekhar.
Gregor’s internationally acclaimed textbook series consisting of:
They have sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into eight foreign languages. Additional volumes currently prepared are Tantric Meditation and Bhakti: Yoga of Love. Gregor has been invited to many countries to teach and has contributed to and been interviewed by numerous yoga magazines. On Gregor’s blog page chintamaniyoga.com/blog/ you will find over 300 articles, videos and podcasts on all aspects of yoga, which Gregor has authored together with his wife Monica.
Today Gregor teaches an anatomically sophisticated interpretation of traditional vinyasa yoga, integrated into the practice of the higher limbs in the spirit of Patanjali and T. Krishnamacharya. His zany sense of humour, his manifold personal experiences, and his vast and deep knowledge of scripture, Indian philosophies and yogic techniques combine to make his teachings applicable, relevant and easily accessible to all his students.
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