Deepen Your Understanding of Ashtanga Yoga

Refine your technique, breath, movement, and awareness
With Eskil Schilling, SYC Level II Teacher

Ashtanga practice begins with clarity and understanding. When your purpose is clear and awareness steady, each movement becomes more accessible, meaningful, and rewarding.

These in-depth workshops provide direction, insight, and a deeper grasp of both the structure and essence of the Ashtanga method. You’ll explore how to harmonize breath, movement, and awareness while learning the foundational principles that support the whole practice.

Through detailed exploration of key asanas, you’ll study correct vinyasas, breathing techniques, and transitions—how to coordinate breath and movement, enter and exit postures safely, and cultivate stability, focus, and ease. You’ll receive intelligent, practical guidance on working skillfully with challenging poses according to your body and abilities.

The workshops also connect the physical practice with yoga philosophy and personal development, revealing how Ashtanga can become a deep inner journey extending beyond the mat.

Ashtanga yoga is a process of patience, dedication, and mindful effort—with profound rewards. These workshops will help you find clarity in your path, deepen self-connection, and experience the transformative potential of this method.

All levels are welcome—beginners, dedicated practitioners, and teachers alike. Workshops are held in English, if there are participants who do not speak Danish.

All workshops include:

• In-depth technical, structural, and methodological instruction to the poses
• Correct vinyasa count, breathing technique, and corresponding movements
• Work with rhythm, focus, coordination, stability, and relaxation
• Guidance on modification and adaptation for different body types or injuries
• Relevant yoga philosophy and time for questions and answers

Coming workshops:

Breath, bandha, dhristhi & movement

Astanga primer – unlocking the method!

• Saturday November 15
• 12.30-15.30

In this workshop we take a deep dive into the core elements that provide the framework for the experience of the Astanga practice - breath, bandha, dhristhi and Asana. Everything that makes it distinct and a deep, inner practice. It’s one thing to know what these words mean, and another to have an experience of them.

This fundamental way to be mindful and move, that incorporates the timeless wisdom and methodology of yoga, into a psychical practice, is what makes the practice so unique and intense.

The workshop is a blend of theory and practice and is recommended for anyone interested in going into the inner core of Astanga yoga, and find focus, easy pace and depth in their practice and thus have an actual experience of it.

Appropriate for all levels of practitioner, even if you have no experience with Astanga.

Tags: Breath, focus, introverted, awareness, consciousness, meditation, core, pelvic, diaphragm, opening, synchronizing, expanding, grounding, deepening, relaxation, moving.

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Price: DKK 300

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*The workshop fee includes complimentary participation for non-members in the preciding Led Class at 9.00-10.45

Sun Salutations – move with the breath

Move through Sun Salutations with flow and ease!

• Saturday November 22
• 12.30-15.30

Sun salutation A has 6 poses and 9 vinyasas, sun salutation B has 2 more poses and 17 vinyasas. These poses and the way to get into and out of them, are at the core of the Astanga practice. But how to link the poses and movements with the breath, so it flows in an effortless way?

In this workshop we will work systematically through the movements in Sun Salutations. We will look at the details of the different poses, practice synchronizing breath and movement, and methods to link the sequences together, so that flow and ease arise in the practice.

Appropriate for all levels of practitioner, even if you have no experience with Astanga.

Tags: Flow, focus, slow, speed, breath, detailing, alignment, setup, execution, deepening, relaxation, move on.

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Price: DKK 300

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*The workshop fee includes complimentary participation for non-members in the preciding Led Class at 9.00-10.45

Stability, strength and balance

Standing poses with grace and strength!

• Saturday November 29
• 12.30-15.30

In the Astanga yoga practice the standing poses are the foundation of the practice that builds strength, balance and stability. In these poses you learn to balance, find core strength and connect to the ground while reaching, stretching and twisting the body. We look at ways of finding ease, comfort and stability while connection to the ground using good positioning technique, breath and bandhas.

The strength from the practice comes with time. As with any discipline, steadfast effort and enthusiasm help to move us on the path. Keeping in mind that the physicality of this practice opens doors for strengthening a positive and encouraging self-dialogue, and our ability to observe and witness our mind.

Appropriate for all levels of practitioner, even if you have no experience with Astanga.

Tags: Anchoring, intention, coordination, pause, setup, go, bidirectional, opening, stability, introverted, ease, spirals.

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Price: DKK 300

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*The workshop fee includes complimentary participation for non-members in the preciding Led Class at 9.00-10.45

More information and questions

Send a email if you need more information or have questions. You are also welcome to call tel. +45 61676790.

Eskil Schilling

Eskil is dedicated to teaching the astanga yoga tradition from SYC Sharath Yoga Center in Mysore (formerly K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute - KPJAYI), which he has cultivated with great passion and intensity continuously since 1999. He started his spiritual journey in 1990 practicing daily meditation, pranayama, japa and hatha yoga, and intense studies of Indian mysticism and yoga philosophy. He taught Ashanga first time in 2006 and has since 2011 annually traveled to Mysore, India, on month-long stays, to immerse himself in his yoga practice under the guidance of his teacher Paramguru (lineage holder) Sharath Jois. He is a authorized level 2 teacher from the Institute in Mysore. Together with his good friend and astanga enthusiast Robin Arnold, he opened the Astanga Yoga Studio in 2009, where he teaches daily Mysore classes for diligent practitioners of astanga yoga.

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