Yoga and The Eternal

Join Karim Fadali, life-long spiritual seeker, student, experimenter and researcher, on this wonderful exploration of yoga’s spiritual, cosmological and metaphysical roots.

This workshop is designed as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), and light-hearted discussion (satsang), on how a modern yoga practice on the mat can benefit from being infused with the science and spirituality that are contained in various yogic traditions and schools of spiritual liberation.

This course is designed and framed around the body of knowledge and understanding that is the life legacy of four spiritual teachers: Shri Ramana Maharshi, Guru Vasistha Kavaykantha Ganapati, Shri Aurobindo, and, last but not least, Sri Anandamayi Ma.

During this workshop Karim will share with you principles coming from a large compendium of sacred texts, which stretched out through history cover and link together the spiritual schools of Samkhya, Vedanta Advaita, Puranas, Upanishads andTantras.

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels. Come and join us on a journey that will organically enrich your practice on and off the mat.

Yoga and Religions

Join Karim Fadali, life-long spiritual seeker, student, experimenter and researcher, on this wonderful exploration of the spaces where, and ways in which yoga comes very close to most religious principles and aspirations.

This workshop is designed as a as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), and light-hearted discussion (satsang), on how yoga can co-exist and even be a supportive platform for all, no matter their spiritual inclination.

Karim grew up with a strong sense of curiosity towards, and passion for spirituality. This passion would lead him to spent a great portion of his life living in ashrams, Buddhist temples, with indigenous communities in Asia and the Americas, in order to study and learn with gurus, monks, saints and shamans.

Karim will take you in a contemplative journey to look at the historical and philosophical affinities between yoga and the worlds of Shamanism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, Islam, and scientific atheism.

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels. Come to share a practice and space, and to explore the many benefits of yoga beyond religion, and non-religion.

Yoga: Path of the Heart

Join us in this exploration of yoga as a heart-resonance focused practice, where you will be invited to move progressively towards your highest state of inner-openness, where grace and presence, balance between effort and surrender take place naturally and effortlessly.

Heart-opening, the asana practice will focus on lengthening the body, releasing tensions and freeing the spine and pelvis of accumulated constriction and tightness, while encouraging stability and grounding.

This workshop is designed as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), and light-hearted discussions (satsang), on yoga’s science of liberation (Moksha), in  conjunction with various underlying principles related to the interconnectedness, and even oneness of our physical, energetic, mental psychological, emotional and spiritual constitution as individuals.

The workshop will also be an opportunity to explore the world, principles and approaches of Bhakti yoga, its traditional roots, along with teachings from Sri Anandamayi Ma.

Born and raised in highly ‘interesting’ and spiritually fertile socio-economic and cultural conditions, Karim has spent a great deal of his life searching, studying and experimenting ways to get to live a life unburdened and unshackled by the socio-cultural conventions, expectations and conditionings of his surroundings.  

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels.

Come to get recharged and inspired by this refreshing course where you can be as large as your capacity for love, compassion and gratitude.

Yoga : The Inner Path

Meet the Universe within and without; by delving practically into the timeless manifold science of yoga.

Join us on this journey into the sacred and spiritual roots of yoga, and explore life’s grandest and most subtle operating creative principles through the richly descriptive prism of the Vedic, Puranic and Tantric cosmologies.

This workshop is designed as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), and light-hearted discussion (satsang), on on how to enrich your own practice and life by understanding and connecting with the wisdom and science represented by the Divine Characters found and artistically described in the Vedas, Puranas and Tantras’ sacred texts .

Karim Fadali is a life-long spiritual experimenter and researcher, who has spent over two decades living in ashrams and sacred cities and sites throughout India, studying the timeless wisdom and teachings of self-realized masters, such as, Shri Ramana Maharshi, Guru Vasistha Kavaykantha Ganapati, Shri Aurobindo, and, last but not least, Sri Anandamayi Ma.

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels. Come and join us on a journey that will organically enrich your practice on and off the mat.

Join Karim Fadali, life-long spiritual seeker, experimenter and researcher, on this wonderful exploration of yoga as a psycho-spiritual energetic process of inner-transformation and self-realization

This workshop is designed as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), and light-hearted discussion (satsang), on how a modern yoga practice on the mat can benefit from a spiritual approach and sciene of being.

This course is framed to cultivate a practical relationship with the subtle aspects of your inner-making; ie, kosha mapping, pranic body, shakti energy, kundalini potential, the nadis and chakras.

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels. Come and join us on a journey that will organically enrich your practice on and off the mat.

Yoga : The Path of Krishnamatcharya

This workshop is designed as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), and light-hearted discussion (satsang, on probably the most influencial yoga master of the 20th century).

Father of TKV Desikachar, and master of Indra Devi, Pattabhi Jois and BKS Iyengar,  Guru Tirumalai Krishnamatcharya was a well of yogic knowledge and wisdom. Inspired, reformer, innovator, he adapts yoga to his students’ needs, develops Asthanga Vinyasa Yoga, and clarifies the edicts of therapeutic yoga.

The versatility and depth of his teaching can be inferred from the variegated branching of his direct students’ methodologies and styles.

As a direct student of Pattabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar, and for a short-period, TKV Desikachar, Karim will take you an exploratory journey into the yogic path of the master, visiting his principle teachings and approaches.

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels. Come to share a practice and space, and to look at yoga from Krishnamatcharya’s way.

Tantra

An in-depth delving into the world of Tantra, through a gradual exploration, of Tantric philosophy and science (Yantra, Mantra, Chakra, Kundalini).

The workshop will also explore the concepts of the Wisdom Goddesses, 'Devas', as well as the spiritual principles that are expressed through the multi-dimensional imagery of both Shiva and Shakti.

This workshop will also practically touch on the subject of kriya yoga, in relation to Tantra.

While Kama aspects of Tantra will be visited theoretically, this workshop will require participation in various couple and group exercises.

If you are uncomfortable with being touched, (in a safe, non-sexual context and way), this retreat might not be a good fit for you.

Yoga of Patanjali

Join Karim Fadali, on this thorough exploration of Patanjali's Asthanga Yoga sutras.

This workshop is designed as an integral yoga course (Raja Yoga), blending practice (asana, pranayama and meditation), along with a light-hearted discussion (satsang), on Patanjali's yoga sutras, and on how a modern yoga practice, on and off the mat, can benefit from being infused with Patanjali's work.

This course is designed and framed around various commentaries from various illustrious masters, on Patanjali's sutras; including BKS Iyengar, Swami Vivekananda, swami Satchidananda, Sri Aurobindo.

This workshop is for all yogis, of all levels. Come and join us on a journey that will organically enrich your practice on and off the mat.