ASHTANGA YOGA & ASSISTING ACADEMY RETREAT MAX PASCAL & ERIKA PINNA

This time assistant teacher will be Erika Pinna lev.1 authorised SYC (KPJAYI).
Full programe will be about ashtanga tradition system of Parampara.

All students are welcome from beginner level until Advance A (half).
During programe Max will ask other students to start assisting but only if student are ready.
If you are an ashtanga yoga teacher wanting improve your assisting style or student intrested in advancing your practice you should join Max Pascal , a SYC (KPJAYI) lev.2 International Authorized Teacher and Erika Pinna for this 1 week of transformation yoga assisting programe in amazing Salento, Italy.

BENEFIT OF PROGRAME & ASSISTING
One week assisting programe is the perfect moment to take more experience knowledge of the Ashtanga Yoga technique and increase skill of Ashtanga Yoga adjustments and alignments.
This programe is made by Max and is sharing his 15 years experience of teaching yoga.
Its great opportunity to lern from teacher who has experience in teaching students from many countrys around the world.
If you are a teacher or student who want become a teacher this programe will be perfect for you.
This retreat will also great for students who think about moving own practice to next step.
Another important fact is the Traditional Ashtanga Yoga is a Therapy.
Thats why during this week Max will teach us more about philosophy of yoga, (Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, 8limbs of Yoga).
Max will teach full Primary , Intermediate and half Advance A only to student who will ready to jump to this level of yoga practice.

SCHEDULE OF PROGRAM
It will be daily morning mysore class and afternoon led class & workshops time plus special evening classes.
CHECK IN – 29.05.2021 – 3.00PM
CHECK OUT – 5.06.2021 – 1.00PM

WEEKLY PLAN
Day1
– registration in Salento
– opening class
– dinner

Day 2
– led class
– chanting
– philosophy
– meditation

Day 3 – 7
– mysore class
– led or workshops
– chanting
– philosophy
– conference
– meditation
– puja

Day 8
– closing class
– last conference

– Q & A

DAILY PLAN
6.30am – mysore class
9.00am – conference or special class
11.00am – brunch
4.30pm – afternoon yoga or workshops
7.00pm – dinner
9.00pm – meditation

General plan of event:
– mysore class
– led class
– assisting method
– workshops ( asana clinic , meditation , safe back bend, )
– pranayam
– philosophy
– chanting
– puja

Mysore class – will be traditional ashtanga yoga daily class in full knowledge straight from Mysore with elements of assisting. This part of experience is most important time to understand what really ashtanga yoga is. Don’t skip this !!!

Led class – traditional Sanskrit counting class. The perfect method to learn more about Vinyasa (Krama) system what we practicing every day. In this class you can learn more how to improve your breathing more and transform your practice to the meditation level.

Assisting – as we explained before, will be best time to check what is about teaching style and safe method help to student understand more deep what yoga is. You should start dream about teaching from this experience.

Pranayama – because yoga is all about breathing. We start our life from breathing and we finish this life with last breath. If you change your breathing you can be able change your life.

Philosophy – it will be regular conference and conversation with students during class and during special Satsang time event with Max and Erika. During this class you can ask any question about yoga or your practice. Everything what will be in that moment in your mind, you can ask.
Remember, there is not stupid questions never. All students can have also private time to talk with Max and Erika if they need this kind conversation.

Chanting – it will be mantra sanskrit class. Students will learn how to use mantra in regular life as a tools to transform own life and make more easy and happy.

Puja – celebration, sharing time of Max with all students who join our program.

*This is NOT a teacher training. Max Pascal will NOT provide certificates that state you are a teacher.
If you want to be Authorized to teach Ashtanga Yoga, you need study with Sharath Jois at SYC in Mysore, India.

Food

“Good” is a ROUND word. When a child says, “it’s GOOD,” he tells of a world untouched, pure, essential.
“You’re good,” means: “I can trust, I feel safe.” This is true for humans, but also for nourishment.
A child is master of the essential innate ideas. Adults need to relearn to feel, to savor the taste of food connected to the taste of life.
You Are Here, and on this table you receive the privilege of that ‘good’ that has the taste of childhood.
Close your eyes for a moment, while you perceive the food that from your mouth diffuses energy and pleasure in every part of you.
Organic, for what we produce, it is truth, not a definition of fashion: we cultivate without using herbicides or pesticides with an arduous daily work between the rows.
Grow for us means supporting and not interrupting the cycle of life.
This food walks only a few steps to get from the garden to our kitchen.
Yes, this food is Good, because it made with love, because it is good for your health and at the same time does not harm anyone; to get on your plate it does not exploit other creatures, did not generate suffering, and does not bring pain residues, but joy.
It is a harmonious food, whole, in harmony with creation, with Mother Earth.
This food is the present but also the future toward which to aim. The deep aspiration is that the philosophy of mindful eating, respecting all living beings will always expand more, generating virtuous circles.
Listen to this food, it talks emitting happy vibrations.
We do not choose the easy way out, we like the commitment.
We want a full life that tastes Good”.

Activities

YIS is an international yoga community that gives high value to the connection and well being of body, mind and spirit.In this land of millenary olive groves we offer a fun, welcoming, kind and supportive eco-friendly space for Yoga retreats and holidays in tune with conscious living, with the ‘here & now’. Reconnect with Yourself, with Others, with Mother Nature, with your playfulness!Through yoga, Italian delicious organic (self-produced) vegan food, a range of integrated services at your disposal (Shiatsu, Ayurveda, Thai massage), this is a place to restore, relax and awaken the power within.

WHOLY DAYS, WHOLY LIFE. Our invitation to come join us is TURN YOUR HOLIDAYS INTO WHOLIDAYS.

Quoting BKS Iyengar: “The word ‘holistic’ is very fashionable nowadays, and one often hears people speak of ‘holistic’medicine. The word ‘holistic’ contains the word ‘whole’, which is the true meaning of ‘healthy’. When there is ‘wholeness’ of body, mind and self, this wholeness becomes holy. Holy means ‘divine’ and without divinity you cannot truly speak of holistic practice or of holistic medicine.When a person connects the soul to the skin and the skin to the soul, when there is a tremendous communion between the cells of the body and the cells of the soul, then that is holistic or integrated practice, because the whole of the human system has been integrated into a single unit in which body, mind, intelligence, consciousness and soul come together.Though tremendous advances has been made by science, medicine and psychology over many centuries, no one can define a frontier between body and mind or between mind and soul. They cannot be separated. They are intermingled, interconnected, united. Where there is mind, there is body, where there is body there is soul; where there is soul there is mind. Yet our everyday experience is of a great separation between these three. When we are engaged in mental activity, we are no longer aware of the body. When we are involved with the body, we lose sight of the soul.”

Yoga is a way to move towards integration. With us you will experience it.

Name of guide

Max Pascal, Erika Pinna

Rules

100% deposit refund for cancellation 30+ days before an event.