Yoga – From the mat and into the world
A warm Summar-Thanks to all participants at the Yogafestivalen!!!
Information about 2011 during winter.
This year’s Yoga Festival gives you tools to deepen your yoga practice and bring the benefits of your practice into your daily life. International teachers take you one step further in your yoga experience – and inspire you to live yoga – on and off the mat!
More about Yoga and Ängsbacka here >> (pdf)
In connection to this event these intensives are held:
• Yoga intensiv - Angela Farmer & Victor van Kooten
• Yoga intensiv - Yin Yoga
• Yoga intensiv - Kid"s Yoga Teacher Training
Who can come?
The Yoga Festival is an event for yoga enthusiasts of all levels and traditions. Beginner classes give a gentle introduction to easy yoga that anyone can do. Strong dynamic yoga classes challenge the more experienced practitioners. In Acro Yoga, you explore fun and supportive ways to do yoga with others. Our most experienced teachers take you into new yoga experiences where you connect with your body’s own intelligence, discovering new ways of finding optimal alignment, enhancing your natural fitness and aliveness.
The scene
In the beautiful and peaceful sorroundings of fields, lakes and woods, Ängsbacka provides optimal environment for you to delve into yoga. From early morning to late evening, your day is saturated with the ambiance of yoga.
Food and health
Our kitchen provides 100% vegetarian meals, composed to please your taste buds and digestion. Ängsbacka makes it easy for you to have a healthy summer vacation! Our Yoga & Ayurveda classes make you more aware of how to make the right choices for you in your yoga practice and diet, so that you can find your own balance to support your body and mind.
Family policy
Families are welcome! Our Kids’ and family program provides daily opportunities for children and youngsters to have fun with yoga on their own playful premises, and parents can play yoga with their children. We offer special workshops for children and professional day care for up to 4 hours/day that look after children while parents are at their own workshops.
The daily program
Your festival day may look like this:
5:00 a.m.: Kundalini yoga morning sadhana with live music
7:00 a.m.: Meditation or morning yoga (Ashtanga yoga, Kundalini yoga, Hatha yoga)
8:30 a.m.: A hearty breakfast of porridge, smoothies, fruit and herbal teas
10:30 a.m.: Communal guided meditation for world peace
11:00 a.m.: Workshop (Jivamukti yoga, Systemic yoga, Meditation)
1:00 p.m.: Lunch – the days main meal with beans and lentils, rice and vegetables
3:00 p.m.: Sharing
4:15 p.m.: Lecture or workshop (Yin yoga, Ayurvedic yoga, Kundalini yoga, Relaxation)
6:30 p.m.: Dinner – a light evening meal of soup, vegetable stir-fries etc
8:30 p.m.: Concerts, bhajans, dance, and evening entertainment
The program is subject to change. We will do our best to provide you with a great program. However, Ängsbacka is not responsible for a teacher’s participation or cancellation. We will do our best to replace any teacher who is prevented from coming.
Jannicke Wiel is this years program coordinator.
Levels and experience
The Yoga classes are designed to be for both you who are beginners and the more experienced. Dance Classes require no previous experience, and are designed to help you focus on connecting with your body, inner being and the joy of movement.
You can some as a volunteer
Build our wonderful Yoga Festival together with others and come as a volunteer.
Learn more about our volunteer program here>>
Changes in the program
All teachers come to the festival to support the yoga practitioners in their growth and connection to the silence within, into more awareness and joy. Be prepared that changes in the program may occur. Ängsbacka can not be held responsible for any teacher"s absence, but we will do our best to replace the person/persons who can not attend.
Värmland is wonderful in summer!
Wonderful Mangenbaden with its beautiful long sandy beach is 10 kms away from Ängsbacka. You can also stay here if you want. Look here>>
Workshopleader
Maria is an entusiastic teacher that has emphasis on the uniqness inside every individual. She focuses on how yoga can contribute to balance in your life. By creating a space of freedom on your yogamat she will show you the tools you need to be present in our often hectic daily life.
Lamhita will hold workshops in ''Become the Star..'' with focus on relaxation, body awareness and silence, during the Yoga & Dance Easter and again during the No Mind festival.
Petros is certified advanced Jivamukti yoga instructor. He lives, teaches and sings in Munich, and travels around the world, offering workshops, kirtan and yoga retreats. He is dedicated to inspiring his students to do everything with total awareness and presence of heart.
Guru Dharam is a teacher and healer of Kundalini and Oriental esoteric practice. He teaches people to become Yoga teachers and Kundalini Yoga Therapists. His Yoga classes are well known for engaging the depths of your psyche in a profound transformational experience of Kundalini Shakti.
Born in the Netherlands in 1940 and studying as a painter , he took up yoga at the age of 26 , studying with Dona Holleman ,as well as Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi . In 1971 , he became a yoga teacher for B.K.S.Iyengar.
Maria is the main teacher at YogaShala Center in Stockholm, and a teachers teacher at the center.
Sky is dedicated to living a life of yoga, and for 19 years has studied and taught several forms of yoga, always coming back to the simple and deep principles in tradition of classical Hatha Yoga.
With over 20 years of extensive background in traditional yoga studies and practice, Ateeka has arrived at a way of sharing yoga that is immediate and fluid and experiential. Her teachings reflect and encouragethe innate intelligence and inherent flow of love that lives in our bodies. Ateeka continues to explore the bridge between traditional yoga studies and modern somatic approaches.
Jonas has been working and teaching in the areas of health, massage, vegetarian cooking, yoga, dance/movement, and personal growth for 15 years. He is a 5 Rhythms teacher.
Klaus runs the yoga studio Bergshyddan in Tidaholm, Sweden where he teaches AkroYoga, Hatha yoga, Poweryoga, and Thai yoga massage.
Leah Carnahan teaches a soft type of yoga where you listen deeply to the needs of the body in the moment. She also has a deep knowledge of the philosophy of yoga and brings her profound wisdom of living into her inspiring and gentle classes.
Ulrica Gulz is a Kundaliniyoga- and meditation teacher with extensive knowledge in alternative medicine and yogic psychology. Ulrica Gulz has personal experience of fibromyalgia, whiplash and burnout, and yoga has been her way back to life.
Avani teaches Children’s yoga at an infant school in Stockholm where yoga is a regular part of the program. In the kindergarden she works with children age 3-6. She also teaches regular yoga classes to kids age 6-12.
Maalaa has been given the honorary title, Godmother of Kids Yoga.
Kåre works as a coach, conflict mediator, manager and teacher in personal growth and organisational change. He is the creator of Zen Coaching, which is a meditation-based apporach to coaching, and offers trainings and workshops in Zen Coaching for individuals and organisations.
Russell’s dedication to the study of awareness and human potential began 1969.
Lin is a certified advanced Hatha yoga instructor and yoga therapist, educated in India.
Emma runs Dagsås Yoga Mangalam in Sweden, and is an int. certified teacher of Hatha yoga & Kundalini yoga.
Susan is an Ayurvedic instructor and consultant and AyurYOGA teacher.
Tuva is a multi-creative artist with a great love for the nature. In addition to life-long experience of art and design work, she has since the early 2000s experimented with music improvissations, both solo and in groups.
Musician
Marco is musician, percussionist and disciple of the tabla master Keshab Kanti Chowdhury. Marco has experience in holding creative, playful workshops with children in Italy, Spain, Norway and India.
Tal Zimra Coleman, a composer and a multi-instrumentalist. The Bansuri, also known as Krishna''s Flute, is her main source of inspiration.
Bjørn Vasudev Årstad began meditating in 1987 and has since been involved in meditation, yoga and spiritual and therapeutic methods. After an MA in comparative religion, Vasudev did his training in philosophical counseling. He has worked freelance as a coach, workshop leader and musician in recent years.
Sara Scheen Otnes is a singer and musician, playing the harmonium and singing with the bands Radical Devotion and Mahadevaya.
Trond Erland Turiiya Sigvartsen has 25 years experience in different musical compositions. He is songwriter, singer and guitarist in the band Radical Devotion. This band composes and plays spiritual music. They hold meditative concerts and sound healing ceremonies.
Tord Helsingeng is a musician, neurological shiatsu therapist and teacher from Oslo, Norway.
Chef
Vijay creates Indian and Indo-Asian food that is fresh, alive and inspired by what he has learned from his family, in particular his grandfather who was a chef for the Tripura Tribal King in India. He currently runs an Ayurvedic Catering Company in Stockholm and has been living in Sweden and working as a chef for the past 20 years.
Jo is passionate about food and creates fresh and exciting recipes and menus that are loved by many.