Choose a language
Yoga retreats in Thailand
Yoga retreats Thailand

Quantum Yoga workshop series

Yoga retreats Koh Samui ThailandDetails: The workshops are sold as a series. Series one includes Birds, Heroes and Lotus Mandala and will be repeated twice during 7-9 & 10-12 February 2010 (3 x days x 2 hours per series).

Quantum Master Sequence will take place on the 13th February following the series as above. To enrol to this class you must have completed Series one.


 

BIRDS     

  • Duration: 2 hrs
  • Dosha Regulated: Vata (Air)
  • Primary Energetic Effect: Grounding, Balancing, Strengthening
  • Peak Pose: Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana
  • Theme: Freedom
  • Level: General
  • Music: Healing Sounds from Nature


Workshop Format

20 min: Introduction to Quantum Yoga and Explanation of Recognising and Dealing with Vata Imbalance. Also, brief description of how Antonio Testa uses the resonance of natural sound to heal the human body-mind.

1.5 hr: BIRDS taught group class, outlining the ten Quantum groupings.
10 min: Explanation of the notion of freedom in the spiritual context as liberation from the cage of the mind. Reference to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras’ Definition of yoga as chitta vritti nirodha.


Yoga retreats Koh Samui ThailandHEROES

  • Duration: 2 hrs
  • Dosha Regulated: Pitta (Fire)
  • Primary Energetic Effect: Calming, Cooling, Refining
  • Peak Pose: Quantum Mini-sequence (When regulating pitta, the aim is to cultivate even energetic expenditure, so a peak pose as such is avoided.)
  • Theme: Karma and the 3 types of action, Strength versus Power, Shakti
  • Level: General
  • Music: Modern Music and Mantras


Workshop Format

20 min: Brief Definition of Quantum Yoga and Exposition of its systematic application and principles. Explanation of Recognising and Dealing with Pitta Imbalance. The meaning and use of mantra in stilling the mind and controlling passionate, fiery tendencies.    

Yoga retreats Koh Samui ThailandLOTUS MANDALA   

  • Duration: 2 hrs
  • Dosha Regulated: Kapha (Earth)
  • Primary Energetic Effect: Stimulating, Purifying, Inspiring
  • Peak Pose: Ardha Padma Pincha Mayurasana
  • Theme: Grace
  • Level: General
  • Music: Chilled Techno Tunes


Workshop Format

20 min: Brief Definition of Quantum Yoga and Exposition of its systematic application and principles. Recognising and Dealing with Kapha Imbalance. Description of the use of technology in complimenting natural sound and how its regular beat and rhythm resonates with the yogi’s cultivation of a state of total balance leading to siddhis (supernatural powers) and the ultimate exalted state of consciousness.

CAPRICIOUS SHIVA - Quantum Master Sequence

  • Duration: 2.5 hrs
  • Dosha Regulated: primarily Vata-Kapha, but at an experienced level it is assumed that the practitioner has already cultivated a more balanced constitutional state. At times that one’s prakrti (natural tendency) is exacerbated, even advanced yogis are advised to do a more basic and suitable practice.
  • Primary Energetic Effect: Balancing, Strengthening, Stimulating.
  • Peak Pose: Shiva Natarajasana
  • Theme: Power of Play and the Maintaining of Beginner’s Mind
  • Level: Experienced-Advanced
  • Music: Ambient, Electronic House and Balearic Beats

Biography – Lara Baumann

Biography – Lara Baumann

Lara Baumann teaches the Quantum Method® of Yoga to all levels of students both publicly and privately worldwide.

Her powerful relationship with yoga and a strong interest in Eastern philosophy is the result of her upbringing in India and Japan, which subsequently led her to complete an MA in Religious Studies at SOAS, University of London.

As an apprentice, she has studied with Sri K Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, as well as BKS Iyengar in Pune. Her main teachers are Edward Clark, Danny Paradise and Clive Sheridan.

In January Mandala Publishing released Lara’s book & DVD “Quantum Yoga, Creating Your Ideal Practice from an Ocean of Possibilities”. The author has also presented several yoga documentaries and writes features for yoga magazines. She has published three Quantum Yoga double audio-CD’s: Birds, Heroes and Lotus Mandala, the Basic Quantum sequences that regulate each Ayurvedic dosha (body-mind constitution) in turn. The Quantum Master Sequence DVD “Capricious Shiva” will be released in April ’09. Lara runs Yoga Alliance certified Teacher Training courses in the UK and India. This workshop will be part of Lara’s world tour, where she teaches in all major yoga hubs of the USA, Asia and Europe. Her objective is to guide people in developing an optimal, powerful, healing and sacred practice that leads to health, happiness and enlightenment.