Sometimes life gets in the way of all the things you'd like to do. At Yogaschool Amsterdam in Amsterdam Oud West, certified yoga teachers will show you how to create space for yourself. Via a pure, traditional form of yoga: Iyengar Yoga. A yoga form that balances body, mind and soul.
From the human anatomy to your own mental strength and all the things you're capable of. Like continuous development. Not just mentally or physically but also morally and spiritually. Instead of pushing past your own limitations, you learn first where those limits are. And then to test them, at your pace, based on your state of health and well-being.
What do you want to achieve with yoga?
(90 min.) Basic poses are refined and interrelated. Sirsasana, Full arm balance, Backbends and Pranayama are introduced. The Level 1-2 class is the step to Level 2. You can join it with 6 months of experience in a Level 1 class.
(75 min.) Basic poses taught and repeated. The fun of it is that they're looked at always from a different angle. Props make the practice light or sometimes enormeously intense. Young or older, souple or stiff, fit or not and with or without any yoga experience, everyone can join.
(75 min. with a teacher in training assisted by Kristien) Basic poses taught and repeated. The fun of it is that they're looked at always from a different angle. Props make the practice light or sometimes enormeously intense. Young or older, souple or stiff, fit or not and with or without any yoga experience, everyone can join.
(90 min.) In this class 'More with Props' you learn how props can help to grasp the essence of certain asana's. You deepen the Iyengar yoga practice and discover the part of the method that Mr. Iyengar developed to heal from- or to find quality of life with a physical ailment.
(105 min.) For students who are able to do Sirsasana for five minutes and push up into Urdhva Dhanurasana. Sirsasana variations, intermediate postures, and seated Pranayama are taught. Independant practice should be established.
(75 min.) Release tension from your daily life in this class and 'Come to rest'. Within the Iyengar yoga tradition, we know all about adapting asana's so you find deeper rest and recovery of energy.
(105 min.) Use our room, with props and quietude enough to do your personal practice. The teacher is always open for any question about your practice.
(120 min.) Kristien's Professionals class is especially for Iyengar yogateachers. Here you deepen your practice as a student as well as a teacher. You will study the asana's crisscrossing the Introductory and Intermediate Junior syllabi and you learn by Kristien but also by your colleagues. We basically practice the Intermediate Junior levels and Kristien wil ask you for example how you instruct x or y asana. Also you can ask questions out of your own teaching practice. This training is only for teachers and advanced students in Iyengar yoga (teachertraining) with at least 6 years of regular Iyengar yoga practice. Contact Kristien if you're not sure you can join.
"To cure what you can't endure and to endure what can't be cured" BKS Iyengar. When you can't do a regular class because of health problems like chronic illness, fatigue, injury of the bones, muscles or nerves, complications in your pregnancy, consider to come to the Therapy class with Kristien. The focus of this class is to get you back to regular group classes, when ideally the problem is solved or when you got more knowledge about adaptations to work with your problem. It's a semi private class of 60 minutes, in a time span of two hours, where you and Kristien agree on beginning time. There's an intake of 30 minutes where you talk and work with Kristien. Call or e-mail us via the contact page on the website, to make an appointment. Kristien will get to you as soon as possible.
Are you having an injury or a recurring pain? In three series of four "Working with injury"-lessons you learn how to adapt the asana's practised in the regular classes. This is the class where you get hints and tricks of Kristien and ask your questions. A light and open atmosphere should help everyone to learn from each other. You could immediately practice what you've been learning in Jacco's class afterwards. The class from 18:15 to 19:15 is very concise. Theme of the first series is "shoulders and neck". The next series is about "hips and lower back" from May 2 to 23 and the last one is about "knees" from June 13 to July 4.
(90 min.) In this class 'More with breath'; you first get to rest and refresh your energy. You learn how to build a bridge for yourself between physical practice to mental repose. During a class like this, you make a step from restorative asana's to Pranayama, the practice of chanalizing life energy. Where Asana aligns the body, our breathing can open roads for our life force, Prana. You can follow this class if you followed weekly Iyengar yoga classes for one year at least. Please turn to your teacher for advice.
The essence of yoga is that you discover what's good for you.
We will guide you in that process by sharing our own 20 year experience in yoga. Our experience comes directly and indirectly from the founder himself, the late Mr. BKS Iyengar. His first book Light on Yoga is still regarded worldwide as the bible of yoga. And for all forms, too, thanks to the exquisitely illustrated basic poses (asanas) demonstrated by the master himself.
DO YOU LIVE OR WORK IN AMSTERDAM WEST OR OUD ZUID?
Yogaschool Amsterdam is located in Amsterdam West on the Baarsjesweg 227.
Close to the Vondelpark and theWillemsparkweg. So you live or work in Amsterdam West, the Zuidas or Amsterdam Oud Zuid? Then it's even easier for you to get your daily rest and win back your own space. Not just at home but also at our yoga school in your neighborhood.