4-Week Yoga Beginners Course Level 1 - Sep-Oct 2019

Course intention

The Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga beginners course is designed to provide our new students with the fundamental foundations of yoga. Our intention is to introduce you to the health-giving and joy-bringing powers of yoga. We truly believe that yoga helps us discover our incredible self-healing faculty, bringing more balance and joy to our daily life.

Course modules

• We will explore your breathing patterns and help you create harmonious ways for guiding your breath during yoga practice and daily life.
• We will learn the sequence of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, starting with the two sun salutes, the standing postures and a short introduction to the finishing series. We will support you in finding your own style, keeping it simple, balanced, safe, inspiring and uplifting.
• We will help you develop or improve your concentration skills through experiencing drishti (the yogic gaze technique). We will practise it during our postural sequences and help you take it further into your daily life to support your intention and give more focus to your life choices.
• We will prepare your mind and body for the safe practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, through the exploration of the body energy locks (bandhas), observing how these subtle but powerful tools bring about balance and focus.

Course students

We keep this course intimate with a maximum of 10 students and welcome novices to yoga and those who are new to the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga method.

Course teacher

The course will be led by Irina Pashkevich Bourdier, the founder of Iriness. Visit the About page for more information about Irina.

Course timeline

The course duration is 4 weeks and includes 20 hours of theory and practice:

• 4 x 1h45  Saturday sessions at 11am (April 14, 21, 28 & May 5) and
• 8 x 1h30 week day classes during 4 weeks of the course. Any daily class can be attended.

We recommend attending the regular classes twice a week to help your newly acquired knowledge settle in your mind and body. But we will allow 5 weeks to complete all 8 classes, if need be.

Course price

The course price is £120,which includes 4 x 1h45 Saturday sessions and 8 x 1h30 regular weekday classes.