Ashtanga Workshop in Copenhagen, 2025

May 30-June 1, Mysore Yoga CPH

We are delighted to be returning to Mysore Yoga Copenhagen, hosted by Helena and Niels.

Details of the workshop are as follows.

FRIDAY MAY 30TH

18.30 to 20.30 Breathwork Intro & Evolution of Mysore Yoga

We will run through a bit of breathing basics (yoga clothes not required) before a presentation on the history of Mysore Ashtanga yoga based on our relationships with the early students and teachers, combined with podcast guests. When the first Westerners arrived in Mysore, the way they were taught was not the same as we are today. Indeed, there have been some important changes over the last 50 years. And it’s not only interesting, but, also, useful to our own practices, to know how what we are doing has evolved up until this point.

SATURDAY MAY 31ST

8.00 – 9.30 Group 1, 9.45 – 11.15 Group 2, Ashtanga Assisted Self-Practice

A self-practice class with verbal instruction and light physical assistance. Adam offers directions for you to experience asanas in a comfortable and stable way in your body. He does not believe in forcing people into postures and focuses on safe and non-intrusive assistance. The class follows the traditional Ashtanga yoga sequences and series, however it’s OK if you need practice sheets, props or to modify asanas to suit your own needs.

12.00 – 13.30: Arm Balances

Building up from the basics with some technique essentials, we will then have a go at some of the more advanced arm-balances in a way that everyone can enjoy and experience the exhilaration of taking our weight into our own hands – quite literally!

14.00 – 15.30: Opening the Hips

The true and effective ‘hip opening’ is of the lower back and sacrum area rather than the superficial stretching of our inner groins as we’re often taught. There is a lot more to hip opening than baddha konasana. We shall consider the proposition more thoroughly, as well as why yoga is so fixated as a movement modality with our hips.

SUNDAY JUNE 1ST

8.00 – 9.30 Group 1, 9.45 – 11.15 Group 2, Ashtanga Assisted Self-Practice

As above

12.00 – 13.30: Intermediate Series for All

Originally, the early students who learnt ashtanga learnt Primary along with Intermediate. They balance and complement each other. And, given a little thought and pragmatism, we can all, regardless of our bodies, develop our version of an Intermediate Series practice to do alongside our Primary Series one.

14.00 – 15.30: Alternative Yoga Sutras

Adam presents an alternative view of The Yoga Sutras based on discussing the text with some of the leading authorities on it. We will consider current usages, and how it might more effectively be related to our modern lives, rather than simply in stopping the mind and getting rid of our ego as it’s commonly portrayed as suggesting.

For prices and booking talk to Helena at Mysore Yoga Copenhagen

About Adam Keen

Adam has been a yoga practitioner since 1999 and has taught Ashtanga yoga internationally for over twenty years. His style is open, non-dogmatic and eclectic while remaining rooted in an appreciation of the benefits of the method of ashtanga as he learnt it in Mysore, India.

In 2012 he completed the Advanced A sequence with Sharath and was authorized to teach. Adam meets all students where they are, hopefully, with humour, kindness and inspiration, holding a safe and supportive space for personal inquiry. He is also the co-founder of Keen on Yoga and the Keen on Yoga podcast with his wife Theresa.

Instagram: @adam_keen_ashtanga & @keen_on_yoga