I really love sharing the space of practice with students who are curious and inpsired by its potential, immersed in community or sangha. My classes and workshops dive into yogic ideas and techniques and how we can interact with these teachings from a personal, experiential perspective.
It's important to me that students feel empowered to use these spaces to experiment with, question and reflect on the tools and techniques we are using, their effectiveness and their residue. Always with the intention to create a safe space to engage in this type of deep work of looking at ourselves clearly.
Don’t take my word for it, feel what we practice and explore, because that’s where true wisdom exists.
See below for upcoming workshops near you. If you’d to coordinate a workshop with me at your local studio, I would be happy to connect.
Community is important. I would say a necessary component in exploring yoga and oursleves more deeply.
Upcoming Events
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A Retreat to Reconnect in Portugal
July 19-August 2, 2025
One and two week options available
Hosted at Cara Creek Eco Lodge and Led by Monica Arellano and Leni Scherer. We will Immerse in nature, dive deeply into Ashtanga yoga and the philosophies supporting it, stay in a sustainably built and run retreat center, eat local delicious food, connect with community, engage your curiosity. It’ll be a moment to pause, reflect and reconnect with what makes you feel alive.
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Ashtanga Yoga Weekend Workshop
September 5-7, 2025
Freiburg, Germany
Join Leni and Monica for a weekend exploring Ashtanga Yoga and how to approach it as a tool for healing and transformation. Together we will practice meditation, breathing and asana to feel for ourselves the sensations and residues from these mind body heart modalities. We will also look at foundational patterns and movement mechanics to understand why we take particular forms, how to refine their expressions through adjustments and question if we should adapt a form for a particular need. Ashtanga Yoga doesn’t need to look one way, it can take on endless forms to reflect the living breathing nature of all things. All levels are welcome.
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Ashtanga Yoga Adjustments Intensive
October 3-5, 2024
Darmstadt, Germany
This intensive will explore the fundamentals of hands-on assists and key adjustments in Ashtanga Yoga’s Primary and Intermediate Series.Adjustments, when done properly, allow a student to settle more deeply into the felt sensations during the practice and to embody the energetic pattern of an asana. During this 3-day intensive, we will consider intention and purpose, what we are trying to communicate, and the most safe and effective way to communicate when using our hands and energy to support a student’s practice.