What is Ghosh yoga?

The lineage of yoga is named after Bishnu Charan Ghosh, and it developed in Kolkata, Bengal. Quoting from the Ghosh Yoga website: ”In India and Japan, Ghosh yoga has always been individual and prescriptive. Each person/student has different needs and limitations, and the yoga teacher’s job is to prescribe to each student the appropriate exercises, asanas and meditations to heal their ailments and develop their physical, mental and spiritual potential.”

What is that to do with Original Hot yoga
as we practise it?

The tradition came best known in the west with Bikram Choudhury in the 1970s, who was a student of Bishnu Charan Ghosh. The practise became centered on asana and a set sequence class. He sometimes claimed he taught the 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises as a ”prescription to cure” western lifestyle related issues.

Several of his students when becoming teachers would follow the path back to the Ghosh Yoga College of India too and you may have sometimes noticed mention of Ghosh-Bikram lineage to mark the steps the yoga has been through in the west, as essentially the asana-focused practise and set sequences were here to stay.

Read more here: Ghosh Yoga Website

During the unheated workshop, we will take a close look at foundational techniques for the 26&2 sequence. With consistent application, these techniques have the ability to transform our practice!

Participants will have the chance to try techniques, see demos and ask questions. Appropriate and useful for all levels, including beginners. Bring a notepad and pen if you want to make notes. You can stay for the 16-17:30 class after to try out your newly learned skills.

Cost of workshop is 55€ for everyone and is not included in membership packages. Free for Jedi Fight Club participants. Remember to book your place for workshop and class!

Jasmine has been teaching for 11 years in 30+ countries. She leads trainings for e84 Yoga and Jedi Fight Club, and loves to work with both teachers-to be and yogis who want to dive into their personal practice. Jasmine competed for many years and is the 2019-21 Canadian champion. She travels most of the year for yoga trainings and events.

Created by Esak Garcia, Jedi Fight Club is an opportunity for passionate yogis to step into a world of practice that has assisted numerous people in having a more complete and fulfilling experience of yoga.

During this 6 day training in Helsinki, you will learn and practice homework exercises designed to deepen yoga postures, and receive coaching to empower you to adjust your experience when your results are not satisfying. We call it, “Change Your Mind.” 

In April Scott Erikson will visit Yoga HEL for a special 9-day affair to introduce and share his Warrior Training method with us.

The Warrior Training is a new style of physical exercise for developing strength using yoga asanas and the power of the mind instead of weights or machines. The skills you develop here will transfer directly to your other classes making your yoga practice stronger with more power, stamina, endurance, flexibility, and balance.

Warrior Training is open to all ages, all levels, and all abilities. You do not need to have a yoga background either in order to join us!

The workshop is warm, not hot.

You can find out more at https://www.warriortraining.fit/