End of The Year Workshop with Petri and Juha 27-30 December 2023

The evolution of Ashtanga Yoga –
practical view with 30 years of practice

[Page photo: Petri &Juha practicing, Koh Mak Jan 2001]

+
XMAS TOFU BEEF DIGESTIVE MORNING MYSORE
with Petri and Juha on Tuesday 26th 8-11 am (15 credits)
&
NEW YEAR EVE MORNING MYSORE
with Juha on Sunday 31st 8:30-11 am (10 credits)

+ POP-UP CITY RETREAT PROGRAM
Tuesday 26th 11-12:15: Old Finnish Yule stories shared with Petri&Juha (Glögg&Yule bisquits, Free)
Wednesday 27th: Lunch at Indian Tandoori, Kamppi time 12:30
Wednesday 27th: Smoke Sauna at Kuusijärvi (Vantaa) time 16:00

Astanga Yoga School Helsinki, Finland
Address: Annankatu 29B, courtyard, 00100 Helsinki
Workshop special classes will be also streamed online!

Helsinki Yogaschool students: If you have an one-buy Anytime card, you will get it prolonged for 4 days free of charge if you attend the full workshop morning mysore Wed-Sat. Prolonging does not apply to 12 months Anytime contract but you will get 15% discount of the workshop prices using the promotion code ”VUOSIKORTTI”.

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[Photo: Petri and Juha giving Ashtanga demonstration, Pori Oct 1995]

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

The special theme in this collaborative workshop is the Evolution of Ashtanga Yoga. Petri and Juha will guide and assist practitioners in their morning Astanga Yoga Mysore style practice from Wednesday to Friday time 6-9:30 and Saturday time 7:30-10:30. Mysore practice starting times every 30 minutes from 6 to 8 am, book your preferred times for each morning here. This workshop is international, teaching and special classes will be presented in English.

In the Special classes we will dive into the evolution of Ashtanga Yoga already since the early years of modern Ashtanga in 1930’s, and how the Ashtanga sequence and vinyasas has been changed in course of decades. Theory and practice. This Special program has four classes:

Class 1 Wednesday lecture and discussion on The Evolution of Ashtanga Yoga, part 1 with Petri.

Class 2 Thursday lecture and discussion on The Evolution of Ashtanga Yoga, part 2 with Juha.

Class 3 on Friday : Petri will guide the participants into specific asana techniques which were widely practiced in the end of 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Class 4 on Saturday with Juha has three parts: 1. Pranayama. 2. Chanting. 3. Yoga philosophy. Juha will guide the participants in simple but efficient methods of Pranayama breath work, vedic style chanting of Yoga Sutras, and discussion on the dynamic nature of World, Life & Yoga, and how to adjust our roles and goals consciously.

[Photo: Juha & Petri assisting, Helsinki 1994]

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How to login and buy a workshop pass or drop-in tickets
How to book workshop classes
Schedule – book your classes

Teachers

Petri Räisänen, a father of three children, is internationally known and respected Ashtanga Yoga teacher. In his yogic path Petri has studied with many respected Ashtanga Yoga teachers such as Derek Ireland (his first certified teacher), Radha Warrel, Gwendoline Hunt, Lino Miele and Eddie Stern, in addition to R. Sharath Jois and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. His special project has been the two Ashtanga Yoga books, Yoga Chikitsa and Nadi Shodhana, published in Finnish and in English.

Petri focuses on integrating healing and therapy with yoga, meeting student’s individual needs and guiding their progress. Petri’s yoga pose adjustments are gentle, effective, therapeutic and, according to some, almost magical, and originate (besides his own practice and teaching) from his past work as a traditional Finnish folk healer and naturopath.

Juha Javanainen, a father of five children, has practiced Ashtanga yoga with Radha Warrell, Derek Ireland, Lino Miele and Eddie Stern, in addition to R. Sharath Jois and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

Juha continues to teach in Helsinki while working also as a yoga school director. Juha also continues to study and to practice Ashtanga Yoga as taught by Pattabhi Jois and T. Krishnamacharya. He is also studying the Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali. His special project was to translate the primary work of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois on Astanga Yoga, the book called Yoga Mala, into Finnish in 2002.

Juha wishes to share his experiences on practice and teaching, how to work with the body&mind for healing purposes within the yoga practice.

Petri and Juha are the co-founders of Ashtanga Yoga Helsinki, and Sri K Pattabhi Jois blessed the school in 1997 to teach the traditional Astanga Yoga method.

Booking steps:

1. Purchase a workshop pass / drop-in tickets.
2. Book your classes.

See below the detailed guide how to:

1. To purchase a workshop pass, follow the steps A & B

Step A: login or sign up into our booking system

Create or Log in into your ”Helsingin Astanga Joogakoulu” student account by clicking the Log in icon (House) down left corner or by downloading our Helsingin Astanga Joogakoulu app into your phone or tablet. Remember to set your pricing category (regular or discount price: Student, Pensionate, Maternal leave, Unemployed, HUS employee). Our webshop requires pricing category for purchasing a workshop pass.

Note: With the Bsport member form you can set your pricing category and upload your discount sertificate, but Bsport is unable to show that data for you to check if they are ok. Only Yogaschool backoffice can check your pricing category and sertificate. Please contact info@astanga.fi if you have any questions on this.
Here is our guide for detailed steps and instructions on creating and using the Bsport account and class booking (available only in Finnish at the moment)

Step B: Purchase your workshop pass or drop-in tickets

Checklist before purchasing a workshop pass:

• if your chosen workshop pass or drop-in ticket pricing does not match your personal pricing category (regular or discount price) the webshop will announce ”This product is not available for purchase”. See the Step 1 above how to set your pricing category.
• If you have sport notes or sports app or you want to pay at the Yogashala, you can set the workshop pass payment method as Pay later / On-Site Payment.
• If you have annual anytime subscription, you will get 15% off the workshop prices using the Promotion code ”VUOSIKORTTI”.
• If you have a one buy anytime card, you can ask to extend it by the number of workshop yoga practices you have attended.
• You can use single day, 3days and 4 days passes to book both Yoga and Special classes.
• You have to book mysore classes and special classes separately as they are two different sets of classes.

2. Book workshop classes

Book your mysore class starting times (book only one mysore class per day) and special classes at the workshop schedule below you wish to attend. If the class is full you can sign into a waitlist. Click below the link ”First availability 27/12/2023” to open the Workshop classes scheldule.

You might also want to attend these extra classes:
XMAS TOFU BEEF DIGESTIVE MORNING MYSORE
with Petri and Juha on Tuesday 26th 8-11 am (15 credits)
Book the class starting at 8:00 | 8:45 | 9:30
&
NEW YEAR EVE MORNING MYSORE
with Juha on Sunday 31st 8:30-11 am (10 credits)
Book the class starting at 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30

CLASS SCHEDULE
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