Bergé Yoga

31/10/2023

What a great Yoga party we had last weekend! ✨🤸🍁

Thank you so much , it was great having you here and spending some time together!

The 10 hours of intense and intelligent constructed practice you shared with us are a great gift to the Belgian yoga community.

Let's keep on sharing and encouraging eachother in the holistic quest of Yoga. 🙏❤️

03/10/2023

~ Iyengar Yoga Summer Course August 2023 ~

🙏 A warm thank you to all the participants for their commitment and joyful presence throughout a magnificent week.

One image speaks more than a thousand words.

🤸 We practiced 5 hours a day, working on refinement, detail, deeper understanding as also some strength, endurance and flexibility.

Each participant made impressive progress and each one pushed their practice to the next level, providing an ever more solid frame to cope with good and bad in life.

🥳 Moreover, the group had a beautiful and joyful energy, lots of laughter and fun.

>>> I am confident I am not alone with the opinion that is was the perfect week! ❤️

See you next year! Can't wait to see where you all will be with your practice one year later 🙌

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25/09/2023

Due to some set-up errors many emails were filtered from my inbox without me knowing.

I present my apologies for any inconvenience and kindly request you, if you have sent me an email that remained unanswered, to send it again.

Thank you!

Peace and Practice plz 🙏🌻

29/08/2023

My fb account had been hacked from yesterday 5pm untill 23pm (than I managed to recover it)

My apologies if there was any activity out of the normal

22/08/2023

Iyengar Yoga Summer Course 2023

25/07/2023

IYENGAR YOGA SUMMER COURSE

13-19 augustus near Figeac in France

5 hours of yoga asana/ pranayama and restorative practice a day. We go deep but wisely, we work with zeal, but we play also as kids, we take the practice serious, but too much ourselves and we enjoy life as one should!

We currently have 10 residential and 3 local participants

GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!

👉 I am happy to announce that we could create more space for you!
👉 There is one extra double bed room available and one more camping spot.

See for more info on the website (see bio) and contact me to seize this opportunity to upgrade your summer and beyond 🔥🙌🤸

25/07/2023

I am Simon and I teach Yoga. Iyengar Yoga.

Yes, indeed, that's all I do: full-time and as a freelancer. I couldn't have dreamed of a more fulfilling profession and way of approaching life.

One doesn't become a professional yoga teacher overnight. After Master studies in physical education & movement sciences and in Anthropology, my first yoga steps were in India in the form of a 200hrs teacher training.

Back in Belgium I continued my studies at the Iyengar Yoga Center of Brussels (where I also teach today - www.aumyoga.be): three years of preparation, before being accepted for another 3 year mentorship.

So that equals 6 years of training to be Iyengar certified. It does not end here. I am now preparing for the next level (sept 2024).

Two months after my level 1 graduation, I went to India for the fifth time, but it was my first time in the city of Pune studying with the Iyengar family and participating in the international Yoga convention that spanned over 6 weeks of intense practice and study.

📸 The picture has been taken in a small local momo's (~dumplings) shop in Pune, India where me and a colleague were writing down the morning yoga sequences.

I just finished for the fourth year in a row a 5 day yoga course with W***y Bok, one of the finest and most experienced teachers in Belgium today. I feel grateful and iin love with yoga and what it has to offer this world.

It shows us the unity within diversity, it helps us break rigid patterns, stagnation and a confused mindset and leads us to growth, therapy for the body and calm in the Mind.

I keep on meeting people touching upon a higher potential or people finding hope and perspective again after deep depressions or serious physical issues thanks to the grace of Iyengar yoga and dedication to it. it feels like miracles, but actually it is just science and common sense.

When we take care of our health holistically, our being can come to full expression and old patterns, trauma's and negative experiences can be processed in a deeper way.

In short, more peace is found and mental and physical suffering is reduced.

Life, however it comes, can then be joyfully welcomed and savored 💎✨

19/07/2023

https://youtu.be/KN8AoPbRrGI

The more people know about this side of Iyengar Yoga and its Holistic potential, the better for the world.

This video is worth your time 🙏

Lois Steinberg, Ph.D. Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher Advanced 2 , granted us full access to her latest workshop (Fall 2013) in Champaign-Urbana. We are very ...

30/05/2023

Last days of this moon cycle..
LETS HAVE SOME FUN! 😁

This week a playful introduction into the world of Vinyasa.

Playfulness, agility and less thinking

Remember, it is all about the Journey. The final forms we are able to present today have no value on their own.

Join us today (Huldenberg) and tomorrow (Kortenberg) 🙏✨🙏

07/03/2023

From the tail, ground down and ascend the energy up along the spine.

Like a cobra; sharp and ready to attack its prey, so one must be in this pose: Sharp, calm and fully invested.

Your body and mind don't deserve any less. Don't take yourself too seriously, but be earnest in and committed to your practice.

Awareness and life should be spread throughout the whole body, penetrating the different layers of the physical body into a sharpened mental disposition and a stabilized emotional being.

Yoga is absolutely Holistic and in these physical asanas you face the totality of what you are. There is no hiding your strengths and weaknesses. For growth, for understanding we need to face the truth. We need to open our eyes first. Then reprogram our mind so it keeps on opening up.

The beauty and the ugly both need to be faced.

Toes pressing down - tighten the front of the knee to the back of the knee and compact the flesh of the thighs against the bones. From there stretch the front of the hips up. The Iliac bones must keep on reaching up, so the abdomen can find freedom and the inner organs are sucked up.

Then, the back can curve back and find again its youthfulness. Then the asana will spread and open the lungs and improve the coronary blood circulation of the heart.

The lower back should not hurt in this pose, but if it does: good, now you know there is work to do...

Are you prepared to do the work or will you look the other way?

Some body parts must be dominant and overdoing, other parts must be dull and underdoing.

And so your path unfolds, you adjust and get directions. You are no longer lost in ignorance and the brain becomes quiet.

Happy practice!

01/03/2023

"Love and do whatever you want":

Acting from the understanding that we share the same source of life with everyone and everything is sufficient to be in sync with yourself and your environment. Cultivate it in your heart and then, do whatever you want!!!

>>> Let me introduce you to your hosts and chefs for the Iyengar Yoga Summer Course (13/08 - 19/08) and the NVC-Yoga course 14/05 - 20/05);

These two rockstars have inspired me already for over 35 years and believe me, they will do the same for you.

On the left,the best cook of healthy and delicious meals, on the right a professional musician and 'kind of' professional philosopher and handyman.

Both are sharper and quicker than most youngsters thanks to the grace of Iyengar Yoga and their bright mindsets.

But what inspires me most, is their art of balancing in life and spreading good around them.

They will gladly share a glass of wine with you looking at the Sunset discussing the real stuff.

Which probably comes down to... Boga and Yoga:

The balance between enjoyment, pleasure ,endulging, comfort and passion on the one hand and renouncing, discipline, freedom from pleasure and pain and peace on the other hand.

More info and registering for the Summer Iyengar Yoga Course:

https://www.bergeyoga.be/yoga-retraite-frankrijk/

16/02/2023

🧞 ✨Welcome to Lavitalie (France)!!

This is were your Iyengar Yoga Summer Course will be.

After the succes of last year we decided to do more and even better (what else???):

14 - 20/05/23: Non-violent communication and Iyengar Yoga Course

https://www.catherinehermans.be/evenementen/verbindende-communicatie-en-yoga-stage

13 -19/08/23: Deep dive into Iyengar Yoga

Much more to follow, but write down this: We work intensely and we enjoy intensely
(What else???)

https://www.bergeyoga.be/yoga-retraite-frankrijk/

Photo credit: Benedicte Goethals

31/10/2022

Dear Students,

All classes are maintained this week, as also on the 1st and 11th of November.

Keep growing, keep believing in what may seems unlikely today, keep Practicing, keep practicing, keep practicing

Growth requires change
Change requires practice

😌🔥🌻