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Das Spiel der Elemente auf der Kykladeninsel Amorgos – Yoga & Ayurveda
Description
The Game of Elements Yoga & Ayurveda: Occupational Health Competence, Ergonomics and Self-Management
Two-week professional further education event (educational leave/Bildungsurlaub/Bildungszeit) for acquiring skills in stress management and energy optimization for stress-burdened professions (in two seminar blocks).
- Number of participants: 15 | Instructor: Katrin Müller
- Services: Seminar delivery, accommodation, seminar materials, transfer from the port on the island of Amorgos to the guesthouse and back.
- Booking a flight and the ferry is left to the participants and is not included in the seminar price.
- Bildungsurlaub Yogawege e. V. is a further education institution recognized under § 14 para. 1 BgWBG.
Participation requirements:
Experience in yoga practice is not a prerequisite. However, willingness to be mentally and physically active for six hours a day is important. The program is not understood as a wellness event but as an intensive reflection-action concept of mental and physical processes.
Neither excessive athleticism nor under-stimulated relaxation is aimed for, but rather finding the middle ground between activity and relaxation.
Participants with significant physical problems or illnesses are warmly invited to consult the instructor before registering.
Target group:
The seminar serves professional further education for the following target groups: employees who need the stated knowledge for their professional activities. The target group is employees working in stress-burdened professions who want to learn stress management techniques in order to maintain their professional performance and develop a conscious, positively oriented approach to stress.
Since you learn the basics of yoga in this seminar, this educational leave simultaneously serves as a basic seminar for training to become a Yoga Instructor.
Seminar goals:
- Teaching the fundamentals of yoga philosophy
- Teaching the fundamentals of Ayurveda with regard to a healthy lifestyle
- Samkhya and Kundalini philosophy, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
- Teaching an analytical perspective and an objectively oriented inner attitude, techniques based on the aforementioned knowledge, and the ability to put the inner and outer events into perspective
- Teaching the fundamentals of Hatha Yoga
- Optimizing structural basic patterns and stabilization methods with regard to the working day
Concept:
In addition, the exchange led by the instructor covers
- general and individual stressors
- life history connections and their effects on everyday life and work
- general and individual stress reactions
- reflection on lifestyle with regard to nutrition and self-care
this leads to improved communication skills with regard to recognizing and naming stress-promoting circumstances, as well as reducing risk factors through conscious, type-oriented nutrition.
To promote stress management strategies, simple relaxation techniques as well as breath-guided Hatha Yoga and mindfulness exercises are taught, along with the basics of constitution-oriented dietary adjustment.
Further aspects are
- deepening self-perception
- strengthening a positive self-image as part of society
- understanding basic social structures
- foundations for responsible living
Note:
The seminar content and methods are related to the professional context. With the help of evaluations, reflections and transfers, concrete connections are illustrated.
Participants are guided to transfer and apply the insights and experiences from the lectures and exercises in group work to their concrete everyday working life.
The effects of the seminar topics on everyday working life are oriented to specific situations and to the participants.
The exercise space is, depending on the weather, the rooftop terrace of the Pension Askas with a view of the sea or the exercise room in the garden. Both offer an optimal setting for body work, developing the breath and learning basic meditation techniques.
Arrival and Departure
Flights:
Booking a flight and the ferry is left to the participants and is not included in the seminar price. Flight times should be aligned with the ferry times.
The transfer from the port of Amorgos (Katapola and Aegiali) is free of charge and is carried out by the Pension Askas.
Usually, arrival and departure is via Athens. From there, continue by metro or airport bus to Piraeus (approx. 60 to 90 min.). The Blue Star Naxos sails daily at 5:30 p.m. (except Saturdays) to the island of Amorgos. On the return journey, note that the Blue Star Naxos does not sail on Sundays.
The Blue Star Naxos is a reliable ship. Even in a storm of force 10, travel with this ship is still bearable. The Blue Star Naxos is also punctual, clean, inexpensive, large and safe.
The outbound flight should arrive in Athens no later than 3:10 p.m. to allow enough time for the transfer to the port. The return flight cannot be earlier than 5:20 p.m., since the ferries from Amorgos do not arrive in Piraeus until 3:00 p.m. It is not uncommon for the ferry to arrive only at 3:30 p.m.
It is recommended to book a connecting flight to the island of Naxos or Paros and make the crossing to the island of Amorgos from there. Naxos and Paros are only served from Athens airport.
Santorini and Mykonos can also be flown to, since until October 15 a ferry runs daily between Santorini and Amorgos as well as between Mykonos and Amorgos.
This ferry is a catamaran and is not recommended in strong winds. In that case, arrival and departure could be made with a large ferry via Naxos.
Katrin Müller, certified yoga teacher and physiotherapist
After training in pantomime in Frankfurt am Main, Katrin completed a dance training in Berlin. Since 1990 she has practiced Hatha Yoga and has taught in Brandenburg an der Havel and in Potsdam. Her motivation lies primarily in passing on to her participants the spark of enthusiasm for body and breath work as well as the relaxation and meditation techniques of Hatha Yoga, and in supportively accompanying them on their way.
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Provider
from €860
incl. accommodation