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PARIS WEEKEND WORKSHOP WITH GREGOR MAEHLE

30th – 31st August 2025

Two days workshop offering a comprehensive and philosophy oriented approche to yoga practice with one of the most knowledgeable and inspiring international teachers.  The Sunday morning Mysore class will be given both by Gregor Maehle and his partner Monica Gauci who is a doctor of chiropractor with vast knowledge and experience as a Yoga Therapist. They each bring a combined 90 years of dedication to the study and practice of yoga.

Program:

Saturday, August 30:

9:30 – 11:30: ASHTANGA YOGA – LED CLASS PRIMARY SERIES

11:30 – 12:30: Break

12:30 – 2:00: BHAKTI YOGA – YOGA OF LOVE

2:00 – 2:30: Break

2:30 – 4:00: KARMA YOGA – HOW TO FIND YOUR LIFE’S DIVINE PURPOSE

Sunday, August 31:

9:30 – 11:30: ASHTANGA YOGA – MYSORE CLASS with Gregor Maehle and Monica Gauci

12:30 – 2:00: YOGIC MEDITATION – MANTRA, CHAKRAS & KUNDALINI TO SPIRITUAL FREEDOM

2:00 – 2:30: Break

2:30 – 4:00: THE BREATH OF YOGA – PRANAYAMA AND KRIYA

ASHTANGA YOGA – LED CLASS PRIMARY SERIES

Students of all styles can benefit from Gregor’s Led Asana Class. Here, Gregor will analyse the many intricate anatomical details of the accessible postures of the Primary Series while maintaining as much pace as possible. The focus will be on breaking down the various phases of entering and exiting the postures into their constituents. Performing postures safely while understanding which anatomical actions will get us deep into the asanas will prevent
unnecessary energy expenditure. Through inducing precision, this format also achieves the release of conditioning and emotions lodged in bodily tissue, preparing us for the higher limbs of pranayama and meditation.

BHAKTI YOGA – YOGA OF LOVE

Bhakti is the yoga of divine love. In this workshop, we will establish a definition of what the Divine is and what it is not. The Divine will be shown to promote intensity, creativity, novelty and co-creation with all life forms. We will also understand that the Divine is not a solid state but an ongoing process.

We will analyse various historical Bhakti movements and attempt to learn from their strengths and weaknesses. We will also look at the psychological advantages and obstacles to practising a yoga of love. Finally, a nonsectarian, 21st-century approach to bhakti will be presented, including practices designed to improve our quality of life, happiness, contentment, and the knowledge that each of us matters to the Divine. An important part is learning to see the Divine in all those we struggle to understand.
The Bhagavad Gita, the Divine Song, is the main source for Bhakti. The Gita itself presents a sophisticated mix of Jnana Yoga (yoga of knowledge), Bhakti Yoga (yoga of devotion), and Karma Yoga (yoga of action). We will learn to chant some of the important stanzas and then analyse the practical lessons for life that the Gita imparts.

KARMA YOGA – HOW TO FIND YOUR LIFE’S DIVINE PURPOSE 

Do you remember a time when you knew that your life would be amazing and that you would live to make a meaningful contribution to life on Earth and the lives of others? And then what happened? Somehow, our education and the process of enculturation cut us off from this sacred knowledge and élan vital. We became cynics and “realists.”

Since time immemorial, human societies have been organized around the idea that the life of the individual and of society has divine purpose. This workshop traces this knowledge to indigenous cultures, the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible, and the Yoga Sutra. Our loss of this knowledge has led to our environmental destruction, the sixth mass extinction of life, and the current epidemic of mental disorders. This workshop not only shows how we lost the knowledge that all life is sacred and purposeful, it also introduces layers of technique to lead us back to finding and gradually implementing our life’s divine purpose.

Also covered are:

– Our life’s divine purpose in relation to quantum mechanics, astrophysics and
evolutionary psychology
– Connection to bio-symbiosis, brain development and homeostasis
– The practice & psychology of finding one’s life’s divine purpose
–  Overcoming obstacles
–  How do we know it’s the right voice?
– Daily cleansing regime of the subconscious mind
– Being in the zone and absence of internal dialogue
– Importance of forgiveness, gratitude, acceptance and surrender
– How to embody your life’s divine purpose
– Humanities collective divine purpose

MYSORE CLASS with Gregor Maehle and Monica Gauci

The Mysore-style format offers students a valuable opportunity to apply the insights gained from the Led class while allowing Gregor and Monica to provide personalized attention to meet each student’s unique needs. This approach ensures that each student receives the individual support they require, making them feel valued and supported throughout their learning journey.

YOGIC MEDITATION – MANTRA, CHAKRAS & KUNDALINI TO SPIRITUAL FREEDOM

Different to Vedantic or Buddhist meditation, yogic meditation contains the same structural elements as yogic postures and breathing and was designed to form together with those an integrated whole. Meditation is the method of bringing your mind into a receptive state
 so that you can receive higher knowledge that is already there. Yogic meditation is a collection
of scientific methods to bring about such awareness. To accelerate spiritual evolution yogic meditation employs many means amongst which the prime ones are mantra, mudra, bandha, chakra-visualization and Kundalini-raising techniques. The yogic chakras are representations of evolutionary brain circuitry with the lower three chakras representing our reptilian, mammalian and primate ancestry respectively. By understanding the chakras and
skillfully meditating on them yoga offers the opportunity to activate higher brain centres and propel the evolution not only of the individual but of society as a whole. Kundalini-raising techniques consist of a combination of all other yogic means to raise the life force (prana) to a level where meditation is easy and spiritual insight becomes spontaneous.

THE BREATH OF YOGA – PRANAYAMA AND KRIYA

The Breath of Yoga – Pranayama and Kriya workshop with Gregor Maehle
Imagine how great it would be to have a switch that, when operated, would enable you to consciously choose between your right and left brain hemispheres, intuitive and analytical intelligence, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, fight/flight reflex and rest/relaxation, and between the male and female, solar and lunar, aspects of your psyche.
How great it would be if, when required, you could switch from being compassionate to doggedly determined. Or from being charged with energy to being completely relaxed within a few minutes. Or from extrovert (physically present, expressive and outgoing) to introvert (reflective and absorbing) within a short time. This switch does, in fact, exist, and it is not at all hidden. It is the prominently protruding olfactory orifice right in the middle of your face: your nose.

Pranayama includes some of the most neglected yet most powerful methods of yoga. Pranayama is the vital link that connects asana to meditation, without which the combined benefit of both cannot be harvested. Learn how to use pranayama to harmonize the doshas (humors of the body) and thus attain a state of health and balance as well as how to still the
mind, enabling spiritual insight.

The kriyas are predominantly methods of purification of the body. They support the work of postures and are especially important for people who live in large cities. They aid in removing contamination from chemical, environmental, electrical, biological and
electromagnetic sources.

 

Prices and registration :

Early bird before March 31st, 2025: 
Full workshop €280 

From April 1st, 2025:
Full workshop €310

€170 per day or €60 per session

Cancellation after 15.08.2025 – no refund
Cancellation between 1.08 – 15.08. 2025  50% refund

Location :

Studio Marga
12, rue Godefroy Cavaignac
75011 Paris
 

Inscription : 

You can book your place directly with Gregor here : https://8limbs.com/event/paris-workshop-with-gregor-maehle/
or
make a booking with Agata (in french or english) with her e-mail: wasko.yoga@gmail.com

 

About Gregor :

Gregor began Raja Yoga in the late 1970s and added Hatha Yoga in the early 1980s. Shortly after, he began yearly travels to India, where he learned from various yogic and tantric masters, traditional Indian sadhus, and ascetics. He lived many years as a recluse, studying Sanskrit and yogic scripture and practicing yogic techniques.

Gregor’s textbook series, consisting of Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, Ashtanga Yoga: The Intermediate Series, Pranayama: The Breath of Yoga, Yoga Meditation: Through Mantra, Chakras and Kundalini to Spiritual Freedom, Samadhi: The Great Freedom, How to Find Your Life’s Divine Purpose, Chakras, Drugs and Evolution, Mudras: Seals of Yoga, and Bhakti The Yoga of Love has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into eight languages. His blog articles can be found at www.chintamaniyoga.com.

Today, Gregor integrates all aspects of yoga into his teaching in the spirit of Patanjali and T. Krishnamacharya. His zany sense of humour, manifold personal experiences, vast and in-depth knowledge of scripture, Indian philosophies, and yogic techniques combine to make Gregor’s teachings easily applicable, relevant, and accessible to his students. He offers workshops, retreats and teacher trainings worldwide.