Evolving Towards Simplicity

A Yoga Intensive with

Donna Farhi

Oslo, Norway, 23 – 27 May, 2025

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
~ Doctor Seuss

Sometimes the simplest yoga practices can be the most potent. Small and gentle movements, when applied with sensitivity can reap powerful changes, restoring elasticity, balance and ease. In this special intensive, Donna invites you to join her in a shared inquiry to deepen your connection with core asana, breathing, and meditative practices. These practices can form the bedrock for a sustainable (and enjoyable) yoga practice whatever your age.

The practice of yoga asana (postures) can be distilled into “seed” forms that constitute an alphabet that we can use for our own purpose and to achieve our personal goals. Through subtle adaption, variations, gradation, and creative sequencing, these simple forms can be applied in almost infinite application. Through sensing and feeling what is needed, we can learn to move into a practice by listening to what the body is already self-suggesting.

Each day of this intensive will be divided into a morning and afternoon session. We’ll explore a wide variety of practices, from active practices that build strength and vitality to more passive practices that restore calm and relaxation. Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.

Biography

Leading yoga teacher Donna Farhi has been practicing for almost 50 years and teaching since 1982. As a post-lineage pioneer, Donna has been at the forefront of generating a new model for teaching that fosters self-inquiry through the cultivation of a deepening trust in one’s own perceptions.

Through creating a warm atmosphere free of judgment and competition she invites her students to investigate their experience and to adapt and evolve their practice according to their individual needs. Incorporating the rigorous backing of anatomical principles for safe and sustainable practice, Donna offers progressive levels of engagement that allow people of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic yoga practice. Considered the “teacher of teachers” people return to Donna’s intensives year after year to be a part of the inspiring evolution of her own practice and teaching.

Donna’s livestream and online courses make her expertise accessible to teachers and students worldwide and, in 2021, Donna became the first yoga teacher to present the practice of yoga to a global audience through MasterClass USA. This e-learning platform provides classes taught by some of the world’s foremost minds and experts in their fields.

Donna is the author of four contemporary classics:
«The Breathing Book«, «Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness«, «Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living«, and «Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship» which is a curricular text for teacher training worldwide. Her fifth and most recent book, co-authored with Leila Stuart, «Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with Ease» is becoming the go-to text for Yoga teachers, therapists and somatic practitioners.

Schedule:

Friday 23_^th of May 2025:
18:30 – 20:30

Saturday 24^th of May – Tuesday 27^th of May:
10:00 – 13:00
and
14:30 – 16:30

Scenehuset, Oslo

Please note that there will be no partial enrolment for this intensive.

Class numbers will be limited for this engagement. Depending on numbers Donna will have at least one experienced teaching assistant to help participants integrate the material.

Price:

Early bird:
6 400 NOK
until 10^th January 2025.

Full price:
7 000 NOK

You will get an invoice on e-mail with instructions for national and international payments.

FAQs

Location

The Intensive will be at Scenehuset, Bogstadveien 49, in Oslo.

It is centrally located in Majorstuen, very close to public transport. (See ruter.no for information.)
Limited parking in the neighbouring streets. Accessibility: 3 floor, no elevator.

There are many restaurants, cafes and supermarkets close by. It is also close to the famous Vigelandspark where you can take a picnic lunch if the weather is good. There is a small kitchen where you can eat your packed lunch at the venue.

Scenehuset was built as a chapel in 1898. Since 1990 Scenehuset has been one of the most important rehearsal spaces for dance productions in Norway. The floor measures 17 x 11 meters and there is approximately 9 meters from floor to ceiling. The space consists of the great hall with gallery, kitchen, showroom and toilets.

How do I sign up?

You will recive an invoice after signing up via the sign up form

Waitlist

Your space is confirmed when payment is received.

Early Bird

Until 10^th of january 2025

6 400 NOK, aprox. € 540

Waitlist

Full Price

7 000 NOK, aprox. € 600
Payment plan available

Info about payment plan

International Payments

Pay via IBAN/SWIFT
Pay via Wise

More info

What is the refunds and cancellation policy?

Cancellations before 10^thof April will be refunded minus a 500 NOK administration fee. Cancellations after 10^th of April will not be refunded unless your place can be filled by someone on our waiting list, or you offer your place to another person, notifying us immediately of the transfer. (There is a 500 cancellation fee/administration fee for adding the new person).

In case of cancellation by the host you will receive a full refund. If there is an emergency where Donna cannot travel, Donna will assign a senior teacher in her place (this is highly unlikely).

What do I need to bring?

Yoga mat and props (you will get a list a few months before the intensive)
International travellers will be able to borrow or rent bigger props.

Oslo

Are you travelling from abroad? Here is more infomation.

Your host is Hege S Karlsen and utPust AS.
Please get in touch if you have any questions.

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