Maha Shanti Yoga

25/01/2025

YOGA INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
25 January 2025

As we move forwards into this new year ahead, we look to our Yoga path to give much needed structure, balance and connection to our daily lives.

A time to come together as practitioners, as friends and as a Yoga family to share in the experience of connection with ourselves and with one another.

Dispelling the myth of the need for perfection both in our practice and in our personal lives, we learn through this path of Yoga to accept with gratitude and grace wherever we might be at this present moment.

Thank you all for sharing your Saturday with us and we hope you can join us for our next Workshop ❤️

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Juergen

12/01/2025

DYNAMIC YOGA WORKSHOP
11 January 2025

New Year ... New Start... Our very first Yoga Workshop for 2025! And what a beautiful start to have you all back for a shared Saturday practice ❤️.

We begin this new workshop year with our Dynamic Yoga practice - a perfect time to move and get that energy flowing... to release and let go of those old blockages of the past... creating fresh new energy for our year ahead in preparation for all that it may bring.

Thank you all for coming to launch this new workshop year with us - it's good to be back with our Yoga family again ❤️

We look forward to seeing you all again soon....next Workshop in 2 weeks!

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Juergen

28/12/2024

LOVE & GRATITUDE
A year in review of our Yoga journey with all - thank you for walking for walking this path with us over this last 12 months ...
With love and gratitude,
Anna and Juergen❤️

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice..." T.S. Eliot. As we approach the end of 2024, it is time for us to once again to look back on our last 12 months with you all on this yoga journey - a year with many challenges but also one with so many...

07/12/2024

YOGA INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
Saturday 7 December 2024

GRATITUDE... ❤️

A heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you who came to join us for the very last Saturday workshop of 2024 ... and what a year this has been!

As we continue to weather the turbulent storms of life all around us, it is this path of Yoga and the love and strength of this beautiful Yoga family which helps us to stay centered, to find laughter in times of sadness, to find light in times of darkness.... and to find gratitude in times of despair.

Moving away from this concept for the need for perfection in our practice ... the search for perfection in our lives - through this path of Yoga, we find equilibrium and peaceful acceptance of where we are at this present moment.

Thank you all for sharing your time with us for the Saturday workshops throughout this year... and for continuing to walk this path of Yoga together with us.

We look forward to seeing you all again for our Saturday practices in 2025 ❤️

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Juergen

23/11/2024

YOGA INVERSIONS WORKSHOP
Saturday 23 November 2024

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

When everything seems upside down or inside out, life can feel out of control. These challenging times often bring about the need for a change of perspective... to see things from a different view... to get a new and better understanding of the current situation we find ourselves in.

Through the regular practice of inversions, we begin to learn to shift our literal view of the world and challenge our everyday perspective. By turning our worlds upside down, we also learn to move through our fears and anxieties, increasing our own inner strength and confidence.

Thank you for joining us on our journey upside down! ❤

Love and shanti,

Anna and Jürgen

10/11/2024

YOGA INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
9 NOVEMBER 2024

Conscious....Connection....Community...

Coming together once again on this crisp Autumn Saturday for a conscious practice, finding connection with yourself and celebrating the community that is our yoga family ❤️

Moving away from this concept for the need for perfection.... together we find equilibrium in our practice... and joyful acceptance of where we are in our practice at this present moment....and celebration of togetherness.

Thank you for sharing your time with us for this Saturday practice and for walking this path of Yoga together with us.

We look forward to seeing you all again soon ❤️

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Juergen

05/11/2024

AUTUMN WEEKEND YOGA RETREAT
31 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER 2024

✨Light into Darkness ✨

Even in times of darkness, when we look deep enough, we find the light... and it is this light that carries us through the darkest times.

Never have we been more grateful to be surrounded by our yoga family, who together with our wonderful hosts Joana, Daniel and the team at Knaubenhof, made this Retreat possible ❤️.

Life brings challenges we can never predict... our path of Yoga helps us during these difficult times to surrender and to accept... to breathe and to take one step at a time... to look for the light to guide us through the darkest of nights.

Climbing one obstacle at a time, there have been so many hands that reached out to provide support, so many words of love and friendship and so many acts of incredible kindness and thoughtfulness.

We feel deeply honoured and privileged to be surrounded by so much love in this Yoga family... without the help of so many of you, under these circumstances, this Retreat would not have been possible... and we bow to each and everyone of you in our deepest gratitude.

You are our light in this time of darkness...

With love and gratitude,

Annd and Juergen

20/10/2024

YOGA FOR THE BACK WORKSHOP
19 October 2024

A Saturday practice dedicated to building flexibility and strength in the back while exploring how to move the spine effectively and safely through the whole range of spinal movements.

Thank you all for joining us for this practice.

We look forward to seeing you all again soon.

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Juergen ❤️❤️❤️

06/10/2024

In gratitude... for memories and friendship always ❤️

IN LOVING MEMORY - Devinda de Zoysa

You are forever missed - with love and gratitude for this beautiful journey of friendship we shared together ❤️

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22/09/2024

YOGA INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
21 September2024

So a big thank you to those of you who came to join us for our Yoga Intensive Workshop - our first one again following our summer break.
.. and for those of regular Yoga family members who unfortunately had to cancel due to illness... and those of you still away enjoying your summer travels... we look forward to you joining us again in October!! ❤️

With love, gratitude and shanti,

Anna and Jürgen ❤️

28/07/2024

YOGA RETREAT IRELAND
20 - 27 July 2024

So we bid a fond farewell to the lovely green oasis of The Yoga Barn which has been home to our Yoga family for the last 7 days ❤️.

A huge thank you to Hillary and Tim for being such warm and welcoming hosts of this beautiful space, to Emer for the delicious food that has nourished our hungry Yogis every day, and of course to our doggie friends Radish, Chilli, Truffle and Marmite from the Yoga Barn🐕.

And of course, a huge heartfelt thank you to each and everyone of you who came to join us.... for the incredible friendship, support and love you shared with each other, for all the seva offered from the heart in service of the Yoga family, for the inclusivity that you all demonstrated throughout the week... and for all the shared stories and laughter around the dinner table ❤️.

You have been an unforgettable group during an unforgettable week in an unforgettable place - thank you for being our family ❤️🙏.

We look forward to returning!

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Jürgen

26/07/2024

YOGA RETREAT IRELAND
20 - 27 July 2024

Time to relax, to explore and to share in practice, stories and laughter with our Yoga family in the beautiful countryside of Ireland❤️.

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Jürgen

24/07/2024

YOGA RETREAT IRELAND
20 - 27 July 2024

As we continue into this beautiful week together in Ireland with our Yoga family, our gratitude for this wonderful shared yoga practice, the sunshine and beautiful surroundings of our home here at the Yoga Barn, relaxing days out exploring together in Kilkenny and food that feeds both our bodies and our souls ❤️.

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Jürgen

22/07/2024

YOGA RETREAT IRELAND
20 - 27 July 2024

Finally at our beautiful destination The Yoga Barn in Ireland for our Yoga Retreat. Nestled in the lushious green countryside of this 'Emerald Island' where the colours change with every passing cloud, we are grateful to our wonderful hosts Tim and Hillary for the warm welcome for our Yoga family.

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Jürgen

06/07/2024

YOGA INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
06 JULY 2024

A big thank you to our Yoga family who came to join us for today's Yoga Intensive Workshop - our last workshop before a short summer break❤️.

Our next one will be in September - hope to see you there!

With love, gratitude and shanti,

Anna and Jürgen ❤️

22/06/2024

YOGA BALANCE WORKSHOP
22 JUNE 2024

Finding our equilibrium within the chaos of life... day as to night... light as to dark... movement as to stillness... all things in balance.

Irrespective of the storms of life around us, we look to establish that firm foundation of equilibrium which enables us stay centered.

Through the practice of balance, we learn to align our body's center of gravity with the earth's gravitational field - positioning ourselves in physical equilibrium with nature.

Requiring a sustained effort of adjustment, alignment, strength and mental focus ... a process of centering and recentering -the lessons we learn from the practice of balance on the mat are valuable lessons that we can draw on for our every day life.

For all of us, there are times where we lose our center and we fall. Finding our drishti or focus point to steady ourselves, we are able to pick ourselves up again and again ... standing firm and steady, we learn to find that stillness of center within ourselves.

Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you for our next Workshop!

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Juergen ❤

08/06/2024

YOGA RETREAT TUSCANY
1 - 8 JUNE 2024

'Life is beautiful' .... on this journey of yoga ❤️.

As always, along this journey we are blessed to share this path with so many of you - our Yoga family.

Once again a heartfelt thank you to our wonderful hosts Michela and Sergio at Villa Casafredda. Casafredda itself is a work of art - so many details lovingly designed and implemented over the years... but at the end, what makes a place so special is the energy of the people who are the heart of the place ❤️.
.. and of course, what makes these Retreats so special is the people who join us to share in practice, laughter and friendship - a big thank you to you all for making this week so incredibly wonderful 🙏.

So as we say goodbye to Tuscany for now, we share some last memories of our time together during these last 7 days at Villa Casafredda and we look forward to our return ❤️.

Ciao for now...

With love and gratitude,

Anna and Jürgen