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Cancellation Policy & FAQs
- If you cancel with more than two weeks’ notice, a full refund will be given minus a 5% administration fee.
- Between one to two weeks notice will be charged at 75% of the total amount.
- One week or less will be charged the total amount
Wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat if you have one.
Ashtanga Yoga, Philosophy & Mindfulness Retreat
with
Scott Johnson
What you will gain from the retreat
No matter who you are or what you bring, Scott’s immersion will illuminate your practice. It will reveal what’s surfacing for you, the challenges you’re facing, and offer new ways to navigate them. Whether you are dealing with an injury, feel stuck, or are flourishing in your practice, this retreat will meet you where you are. It’s designed for all practitioners of Ashtanga, from beginners to advanced, encouraging everyone to discover their own path in this profound system.
Scott draws on his 20 years of experience teaching Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness to shine a light on your yoga practice and help you discover fresh insights.
Thanks to Scott there is much more quality in my ashtanga yoga practice. I particularly appreciate his individual approach to students. Not only is he a great yoga teacher, he is also a very compassionate human-being. With his asana adjustments, guided meditation and pranayama practices, Scott has brought a lot of joy, clarity and confidence to my practice. Katya
The Ashtanga Yoga Italy retreat includes:
Over the two week intensive you will gain insight into your own patterns of practice and how to move in your own unique way. If working with pain or injuries there will be fresh light on how to alleviate and work with these issues.
We will use the wider context of technique, adjustment theory, anatomy, mindfulness and philosophy to see how we can notice things in a fresh way. This will also help you to see the practice of yoga in a wider context to your life.
Italy Daily Schedule
Sunday to Friday (both weeks)
Location
Address:
Yoga in Salento’ – Via Stazione 116, 73010 Zollino (LE) Lecce – ITALY
How to get there:
Flights to Brindisi Airport, which is less than an hour away or Bari Airport, which is a three hour train ride. The Yoga In Saletno retreat centre is located in Zollino, in the heart of the Salento. Twenty minutes from both coasts and from cultural centres such as Lecce, Otranto and Gallipoli.
About Yoga In Salento
The retreats take place at Agricola Samadhi, a unique organic farmhouse that offers something more than just recreation. In this charming oasis, the lifestyle revolves around well being: you can combine your yoga retreat with a trip to the Spa Healing Centre, Ayurvedic consultations and treatments and a wide range of massages. Yoga In Salento has been a European leader in yoga retreats for years and a favourite destination of the best internationally renowned teachers in the world.
Join us in Italy!
€800
(This is a base price based on sharing. Single supplement is more. Check for more details.)
Cancellation Policy & FAQs
That's ok. You can come even if you're a beginner.
Bring all you need to have a beautiful and relaxing yoga retreat in Italy. Mat, comfy clothes, beach stuff etc...
Moments in Ashtanga Yoga
A Healing & Mindful Approach to Practice
A one-day journey into the heart of Ashtanga yoga, where posture, breath, philosophy, and subtle movement become a healing and mindful experience.
Scott Johnson
How do we individually approach yoga in relationship to our own lives? Can we see deeper into how our yoga practice helps us nurture breath and movement awareness? How does philosophy integrate with how we see and act in the world?
What you will gain
This workshop is more than a set of techniques, it’s an invitation to step deeper into your own practice. By the end of the day, you will leave with:
A Deeper Connection to Practice
You’ll experience Ashtanga as the integration of psychology, movement and breath. One that lets go of it being a rigid sequence, and reveals it as a practice that develops presence, intimacy, and healing.
Practical Tools for Mindful Living
From posture and transition awareness to pranayama, subtle movement and philosophy, you’ll leave with tangible ways to bring steadiness, clarity, and compassion into both practice and life.
Inspiration & Community
Rooted in the historic home of Ashtanga in the UK, this day offers the chance to learn, listen, and share in a supportive space with like minded people, leaving you inspired and connected.
The Moments In Ashtanga Yoga one day workshop includes:
Together we’ll explore the roots of Ashtanga yoga and how its wisdom applies to our lives today, while learning mindful principles of movement that bring safety, clarity, and awareness.
Blending philosophy with modern movement insight, Scott will show how practice becomes more sustainable and nourishing when approached with tenderness rather than force.
This one-day workshop is a space for dialogue, discovery, and inspiration, offering tools you can carry back into your daily life and practice.
Location
Address:
St Margaret's Institute, 30 Polstead Rd, Oxford OX2 6TN
Train: Oxford Station
Contact: Ian Macdonald from Oxford Yoga (below)
Schedule
Saturday 5th December
Morning Session
9.30am - 12.30pm
| Stillness & Movement |
Ashtanga Yoga , Mindfulness & Pranayama
A guided journey through the primary and intermediate series as a living symphony of breath and movement that can inspire us all. We’ll explore how transitions, rhythm and pranayama bring both steadiness and freedom.
Afternoon Session
1.15pm - 2.15pm
| Philosophy |
Patanjali on Asana
How Do We Find Space In The Body
This session will look at Patanjali's yoga sutra and it's relationship to asana. We will see that the way Patanjali asks us to notice the body is with a steady, spacious awareness
2.15pm - 4pm
| Movement & Technique |
Finding a Strong & Spacious Spine
The second half of the Primary Series offer us a profound opportunity to explore the subtleties of spinal movement. With sensitivity, insight, and awareness, we can observe how the energy of the spine evolves as we fluidly move.
This session will focus on cultivating a deeper awareness of the spine's role in the second part of the primary 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 first and second half of the Primary Series. 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.
Join us in Oxford!
Full Day: £80
Morning Session: £45 | Afternoon Session: £35
Cancellation Policy & FAQs
Please get in touch with the host, Ian Macdonald, through the form above.
Wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat and something to write on.
Ashtanga Yoga Tenerife Retreat
with
Scott Johnson
What you will gain from the retreat
As we navigate the beginning of a new year, Scott will guide you through the many elements of yoga and how they help us to become more present in our lives. Through the practices of Ashtanga Yoga, meditation, technique and philosophy we will look at how their integration helps us find our own way, our own unique movement and our own connection to ourselves and the world.
Scott Johnson will draw on his 20 years of experience teaching Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness to shine a light on your yoga practice and help you discover fresh insights.
‘I have been playing with yoga on and off for close to 20 years. Over that time I have lost range of motion and mobility. As I have struggled with poses and positions, yoga teachers have always told me “Yoga is a journey”. I thought it must be a very painful trip. I attended Scott’s retreat in Salento and in a week Scott set me on a path to recover 20 years of range of motion and mobility. I now believe that yoga is a journey and Scott is showing me the path. Finally someone who is guiding my journey. With timely adjustments, insightful appraisals of physical limitations and encouragement, Scott has brought joy and most importantly hope and belief to my practice.’
Mike
A retreat for every type of practitioner
This retreat is for everyone whether you’re brand new, experienced, have an injury, feeling unsure or feeling good. Scott will meet you where you are.
How we notice this all play out can allow us to land the awareness of ourselves, and our physical practice, in the present moment.
This is the promise of yoga…
The Ashtanga Yoga Tenerife retreat includes:
Morning Sessions: Mysore, Pranayama and mindfulness
Each morning will begin with gentle inquiry. Scott will lead you through gentle guided meditations on the foundational aspects of mindfulness. This will be followed by pranayama and breathing practices, setting the tone as you step mindfully into your Ashtanga Yoga self practice. It Is here where Scott will work with your individual process and help you discover more space and movement in your practice. This collaborative approach will help you find safe ways to meet and develop your practice.
Afternoon Sessions: Where Philosophy meets the Body
With an emphasis on how philosophy and movement relate the afternoons will be a mix of yoga philosophy, movement technique and anatomy. Each session will have a presentation and discussion on philosophy for the first hour, the second will look at practice techniques throughput the system.
Scott will help you to see how the practice of Ashtanga yoga can meet you wherever you are…
Ashtanga Yoga Tenerife Daily Schedule
Sunday to Friday (both weeks)
Location
Address:
Purple Valley Tenerife – Finca Narajas, C. El Horno, 10, 38678 Adeje, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
How to get there:
Flights to Tenerife South Airport, which is less than an hour away from the retreat.
Join us in Tenerife!
€1000 - €1500pw
(There are a range of options from dormitory/single/shared rooms. Check for more details.)
Cancellation Policy & FAQs
That's ok. You can come even if you're a beginner.
Bring all you need to have a beautiful and relaxing yoga retreat in Italy. Mat, comfy clothes, beach stuff etc...