A Mindful Approach to Ashtanga Yoga - 3 Day Intensive with Scott Johnson

Name: A Mindful Approach to Ashtanga Yoga - 3 Day Intensive with Scott Johnson
Start: 2025-03-07T06:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-09T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Merchant City Yoga

Schedule

Fri, 07 Mar, 2025 at 06:30 am to Sun, 09 Mar, 2025 at 04:00 pm

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Location

Merchant City Yoga | Glasgow, SC

Friday 7 - Sunday 9 March 2025
Join Stillpoint Yoga co-founder and director Scott Johnson for a deep dive into the contemplative nature of Ashtanga yoga and how you can meet it with deeper and deeper awareness.

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Mysore style Assisted Self Practice with Scott Johnson
Session 1 - 6.30-8.15am Friday / 8-9.45am Saturday & Sunday
Session 2 - 8.30-10.15am Friday / 10-11.45am Saturday & Sunday
Scott will create a space for inquiry, beginning each morning with mindful ashtanga yoga assisted self practice. He will assist you in developing and deepening your Ashtanga yoga self practice in the traditional Mysore style method.
Scott’s taught mysore style self practice every week day morning since 2009 at Stillpoint Yoga London. He’s helped thousands of people develop a long term and safe ashtanga yoga practice.

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Weekend Workshops with Scott Johnson
Workshop 1 | Helpful Hip Movements of the Primary Series
Workshop 2 | Finding a Spacious Spine in the Primary & Intermediate Series
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Workshop 1 | Helpful Hip Movements of the Primary Series
2-4pm Saturday 8 March 2025
The Primary Series is, at its core, an exploration of the body’s patterns. Among these, one of the most fundamental is the dynamic relationship between the hips and the flow of the asanas. When practicing with mindful awareness, we can uncover how the hip joint creates space and fluidity within the series, helping us move beyond the fixation on individual postures and into a deeper connection with the practice as a whole.
In this workshop, we will trace the journey of the hips through the Primary Series, from the asymmetrical poses of the first half to the symmetrical postures of the second half. Beginning with a short mindfulness and breathing practice this workshop will bring fresh insights and practical tools to create space and mobility in your practice, all while ensuring safety and vitality in the body.
This workshop is open to all levels of curious yoga practitioners.
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Workshop 2 | Finding a Spacious Spine in the Primary & Intermediate Series
2-4pm Sunday 9 March 2025
The Primary and Intermediate Series offer us profound opportunities to explore the subtleties of spinal movement. With sensitivity, insight and awareness we can observe how the energy of the spine evolves as we move through the sequences.
Building on the work from the first workshop, this session will focus on cultivating a deeper awareness of the spine's role in both the Primary and Intermediate Series. Beginning with a short mindfulness and breathing practice we will explore how spinal movement develops in relation to the breath, connecting postures from the second half of the Primary Series to poses throughout Intermediate. We will reveal the continuity and intelligence of the practice.
This workshop is open to all yoga practitioners curious about deepening their understanding of the Ashtanga Vinyasa system.

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3 Day Immersion Costs
Full Immersion £215 (15% saving)
(assisted Self Practice Sessions (Fri, Sat & Sun) + Yoga Teachers' Workshop + Weekend Workshop Series)
Semi Immersion £157 (10% saving)
(assisted Self Practice Sessions (Fri, Sat & Sun) + Weekend Workshop Series)

To book Weekend Immersion please email [email protected]

Assisted Self Practice Sessions (Fri, Sat & Sun) £95
Individual Self Practice Session £37
Weekend Workshop Series (1 & 2) £79
Individual Workshop £45

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About Scott
Scott has been director and senior teacher at Stillpoint since he co-founded it in 2009 as Stillpoint Yoga London, with the late Ozge Karabiyik. He has dedicated himself to sharing the practice of yoga each weekday morning since then.
Scott has been practising yoga since 1998, and teaching Ashtanga yoga since 2003. He's one of only a few Ashtanga teachers to both be authorised in the primary and intermediate series by Manju Jois and be given senior teacher status by John Scott.
Scott is registered as a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK and has also undergone extensive training with Clear Mind International, gaining their level 1, 2 & 3 certificate in Mindfulness and Compassion.
Scott’s years of dedicated and committed teaching each morning has led Stillpoint to become a highly respected central London Ashtanga yoga shala. He meets everyone who comes and looks to create long-term relationships, integrating the practice of yoga and embodied mindfulness as a way of meeting the world.