Yoga Courses In Goa, India

 

The usual yoga course is 2 weeks and offers 6 morning yoga classes and 4 afternoon classes weekly of various content according to the teacher and session.

 

It is most beneficial for students to take the full 2-week yoga course, if life schedules do not permit this, we take one week bookings for the first week only.

 

Students should aim to arrive on Saturday between 14.00 and 17.00, the first class of the yoga course is Sunday morning and the last class is on a Friday morning, with departures on the last Saturday by 10.00. 

 

Purple Valley specialises in Ashtanga yoga courses, and is the best place to learn Ashtanga yoga in Goa, India.

 

All course prices , both residential and non residential, include 3 delicious vegetarian meals a day and full use of the retreat facilities.

 

Season 2012/2013

 

C1 Basia Lipska -
27th Oct 2012 - 9th Nov 2012

Basia is an earnest practitioner and authorized instructor (2004) of the Ashtanga Vinyasa System. She co-founded Ashtanga Yoga Japan , the Museum Tokyo Performance Space and assisted in the expansion of the international Yoga Center in Tokyo as well as the Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Warsaw, Poland added to teaching presently in Norway. She has performed yoga demonstrations, choreographed and supervised yoga-related projects at various venues and appeared in numerous health and fashion magazines, DVD's, TV programs and books ( fashion,health ,Sport) promoting yoga and healthy living standards. more details »

C2 Basia Lipska -
10th Nov 2012 - 23rd Nov 2012

Basia is an earnest practitioner and authorized instructor (2004) of the Ashtanga Vinyasa System. She co-founded Ashtanga Yoga Japan , the Museum Tokyo Performance Space and assisted in the expansion of the international Yoga Center in Tokyo as well as the Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Warsaw, Poland added to teaching presently in Norway. She has performed yoga demonstrations, choreographed and supervised yoga-related projects at various venues and appeared in numerous health and fashion magazines, DVD's, TV programs and books ( fashion,health ,Sport) promoting yoga and healthy living standards. more details »

C3 Mark Robberds -
24th Nov 2012 - 7th Dec 2012

Mark Robberds is one of the new generation of Certified Ashtanga teachers. He is based in Australia and has been traveling to Mysore regularly since 99 where in the past he would study with the late, lengendary Guru Sri.k. Pattabhi Jois and currently with his grandson R.Sharath. His practice and studies have stemmed and been guided by some of Australia's best known teachers like Eileen Hall, Matthew Sweeney, Dena Kingsberg. Marks teaching refects the essence and combination of all these influences and has a commitment to share yoga in a way that inspires people to develop a love for the practice. more details »

C4 David Keil -
8th Dec 2012 - 21st Dec 2012

David Keil and Gretchen Suarez are experienced Ashtanga yoga practitioners and teachers. David has a deep knowledge of anatomy, kinesiology and bodywork. He has developed a fun and informal style of teaching yoga-anatomy to students and teachers all over the world. David and Gretchen share techniques of practice that will help you take your practice to the next level. His first trip to Mysore, India was in 2002 where he began his study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and R. Sharath. David and his wife Gretchen returned almost every year and are both authorized level 2 teachers of the method. more details »

C5 Clayton Horton -
22nd Dec 2012 - 4th Jan 2013

Clayton Horton is the Director of Greenpath Yoga in California. He is a student of the late Sri.K.Pattabhi Jois and the Greensufi. His practice is rooted in the Ashtanga tradition and daily meditation.He received formal teaching authorization from the KPJ Ashtanga Yoga Institute of Mysore, South India in 2003.He has been a student of yoga for over 20 years and began teaching in 1996.
THIS IS A 2 WEEK COURSE. more details »

C6 David Garrigues -
5th Jan 2013 - 18th Jan 2013

David Garrigues first traveled to India in 94' to study Ashtanga yoga with Sri K Pattabhi Jois. Three years later he had completed the Advanced A Series. By 97' he was certified by Guruji and became one of a few teachers in the United States certified to teach Ashtanga Yoga. He is the director of the Ashtanga Yoga School of Philadelphia. more details »

C7 Kino MacGregor, Tim Feldmann -
19th Jan 2013 - 1st Feb 2013

Kino MacGregor is directly certified to teach Ashtanga yoga by its founder Sri K.Pattabhi Jois. She is one of the youngest women to complete the Third series with Guruji and Sharath in Mysore, India. Traveling internationally, she leads classes,privates,workshops and retreats in traditional Ashtanga yoga,holistic health and total life transformation with her husband and love Tim Feldman. Tim's teaching integrates his extensive study of Alexander Technique with 20 years of experience as a professional dancer and an internationally acclaimed choreographer.
THIS IS A 2 WEEK COURSE.
IMORTANT: All students must practice Ashtanga Yoga to join the course. All levels of Mysore practitioners welcome, but no total beginners to Ashtanga Yoga.. more details »

C8 Petri Raisanen -
2nd Feb 2013 - 15th Feb 2013

Petri Raisanen is internationally known and respected as one of Ashtanga Yoga's new generation of teachers. He was a devoted student of the late Guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, who authorized Petri to teach and Petri carefully passes on his Guru's exact teachings. Petri started practicing Ashtanga yoga in 1988 and teaching in 1990. He is co-owner and director of Ashtanga Yoga Helsinki, one of the world's largest Yoga Shalas, which he founded with his friend Juha Javanainen in 1997. more details »

C9 Petri Raisanen -
16th Feb 2013 - 1st Mar 2013

Petri Raisanen is internationally known and respected as one of Ashtanga Yoga's new generation of teachers. He was a devoted student of the late Guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, who authorized Petri to teach and Petri carefully passes on his Guru's exact teachings. Petri started practicing Ashtanga yoga in 1988 and teaching in 1990. He is co-owner and director of Ashtanga Yoga Helsinki, one of the world's largest Yoga Shalas, which he founded with his friend Juha Javanainen in 1997. more details »

C10 Matthew Sweeney -
2nd Mar 2013 - 15th Mar 2013

Matthew Sweeney's knowledge of yoga encompasses 24 years of practice and 18 years of teaching. His education includes Shiatsu massage, yoga therapy, Iyengar yoga and Ashtanga yoga. Matthew's teaching combines the tradition of Ashtanga yoga with the therapeutic needs of each student. He provides an individual approach to the Mysore method and is renowned for the attention he gives to both novice and advanced students. Matthew is widely regarded as one of the world's most advanced exponents of Ashtanga vinyasa yoga as taught by Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. His asana practice includes advanced B, or 4th series. He studies regularly at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India where he completed advanced A, or 3rd series, in 1996. Matthew travels and teaches yoga workshops in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe. more details »

C11 Tarik Thami -
16th Mar 2013 - 29th Mar 2013

Tarik began exploring different forms of yoga in the early 1990's and very soon was introduced to the Ashtanga Yoga system.It was precisely what he had been looking for and from that point on he has been dedicated to the system and to deepening his practice. Over the last 17 years Tarik has studied with his primary teacher the late Sri K.P.Jois and his grandson Sharath Ranganswamy in Mysore India. He was blessed by his teacher Sri.K.P.Jois to teach the Ashtanga system and continues to make annual visits to Mysore for his own study. more details »

C12 David Robson -
30th Mar 2013 - 12th Apr 2013

David Robson is the director of the Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Toronto. With 100+ students each morning, he leads one of the world's largest Mysore programs. After completing a degree in Comparative Religion, David made his first trip to Mysore, India in 2002, where he initiated studies with his teacher, Sharath Jois. Since then he has returned annually to deepen and enrich his practice and teaching. David teaches workshops and retreats around the world, and he recently released a popular DVD on vinyasa, Learn To Float. He is Level-2 Authorized by the Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute. more details »