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12/21/2025

✨Thank you✨

Dear friends,

We want to take a moment to look back on this year and to thank you for being part of this journey.

Over the last few years, the way of sharing the trainings has changed for us. We are focusing on fewer trainings and feel a strong need to make them meaningful for the current times and to take into account how the practice supports us on the mat as much as off the mat and in everyday life.

We are always touched and thankful to hear, how the practice and the impulses from the trainings help you to support your health, your choices in life, your relationships and finding ways to connect and to feel stability and safety. For us, the circles are the time and place, where we all learn, grow and re-connect.

We thank you for your trust and openness to share this work and path with us.

We’re very happy to announce that next year there will finally be offerings of all three training modules again:

✨Biff and Eric will offer another Introduction Weekend at and will be back at Yogaville for an Introduction Weekend and the full Module 3 - Yin Yoga & Storytelling training.

✨Biff and Julia will be at the in Lisbon again to teach the Basic Training and the Module 2 - Embracing the Yin Path.

✨Julia will also lead another Basic Training in Munich in German

You’ll find all dates and bookings on the website soon.

We’re always happy to hear from you.
We hope you know that your questions and sharing are welcomed.

We’re wishing you a beautiful end of the year.

Love,

Biff, Eric, Julia & Bea

07/06/2025

Dear Friends,

July 7th is HH The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday.

He often says that his true religion is kindness and he has spent his life reminding us that kindness is not only at the heart of every religion but the heart of what it means to be human. His voice has been a gift to us all.

I invite each of you to send the Dalai Lama your birthday greetings.

You can go to the Tibet Fund website and write a note to His Holiness. They will send it on to him, and I know that it will touch him. We will share the link in the story.

If you’re wondering what to get him for his Birthday, I can give you a hint.

There’s a button on the Tibet Fund website (link in story) which will allow you to donate to one of their Programs. You can choose support for women and children, education, healthcare, general support or one of the other programs that you feel drawn to.

Love,

Biff

05/28/2025

Dear Friends.

For over twenty years we at the Jamtse School have been using archetypes and storytelling to help us understand and navigate the stories of both trauma and healing that our practices has helped bring to our awareness.

In June Eric and I are coming back to circle at Omega Institute to share how, in our own lives we have used these tools to help us to re-envision some of the stories that don’t serve us or the world. Through practice, discussion and sharing we will invite students to connect with their visionary archetype to look deeply at a story in their lives that feels out of alignment with their heart and through the understanding that comes with the classic midlife stories, to rewrite that story.

This is the first time we’ve used this format and we’re excited to share it with you. We hope to see you there.

Love.
Biff

05/12/2025

Another Spring dawns and we continue to meet in the spaces between our bodies, sensations, emotions, and stories, held by the Yin Yoga practice. They overlap within a stillness and quiet at the heart of the Yin attitude. It is difficult in troubled times to honor the wisdom of non-striving and the potential of pause, reflection, and skillful response.

All of these impulses can be studied through the Yin practice, and this June we will gather in a unique container in which to explore how the meeting place of the Yin Yoga practice and narrative storytelling can be foundational in the ongoing process of integration from different therapeutic modalities, processes, or sessions. Here our own stories and bodies merge with the larger changes politically, emotionally, environmentally, socially, and ecologically.

This unique weekend workshop at the Omega Institute provides a fruitful and heartfelt window into the potential body center practices and personal storytelling threaded through our practices on and off of the mat. Please consider joining us and reading more information about the weekend. All yoga practitioners, beginner or advanced are welcome to join. We hope to meet in circle sometime this season, and please be in touch for other gatherings and trainings this year.

With warmth,
Eric and the Jamtse family

04/27/2025

Yin Yoga is about story

The practice is a chance to give ourselves time and permission to listen to all the stories we carry, the ones that make up our thoughts and dreams as well as those we hold energetically in every cell of our bodies. As we sit calmly in the long held postures without prejudice, just listening, the stories that no longer serve us and those we want to nourish all become our teaching stories.

Love and hugs,
Biff & the Jamtse family

SCHEDULE 2025

Yin Yoga & Storytelling
with Biff Mithoefer & Eric Archer
June 6th - 8th, 2025
Omega Institute For Holistic Studies, NY, U.S.

Yin Yoga Basic Training (50h)
with Biff Mithoefer & Julia Kupke
October 25th - 30th, 2025
Agora Lisboa, Portugal

Introduction: The Yin Path of the Archetypes
with Biff Mithoefer & Julia Kupke
November 1th & 2nd, 2025
Agora Lisboa, Portugal

Introduction to Yin Yoga
with Biff Mithoefer & Eric Archer
November 21th-23rd, 2025
Yogaville, U.S.

11/14/2024

It takes the collective, to create with purpose.

Today we want to take time to thank Alena .ringelmann for her support for the Jamtse School in the last 2 years. Alena supported Biff, Eric and Julia in the background by answering e-mails and Social Media messages, organizing trainings, taking care of our newsletters and website and many more details, for which we often only see the final result, but not the process and effort and teamwork behind it.

Thank you Alena for supporting us along the way, through different time zones and with all our different personalities and needs.

Alena is going to focus on her professional work with Ayurveda and will dedicate her time this winter diving more deeply into her training as an Ayurvedic Health Advisor. We wish her all the best. .nourishment

Thanking her is also a reminder to us, that all parts matter. Whether our work is in the forefront or in the background, it’s collectively that we create and share purpose and intention.

We are looking forward to a next phase for the Jamtse School, which is based not only on the practice but also on you, our community, which brings the practice to life.

Love,
Biff, Eric & Julia

09/17/2024

Last Minute Offering for the Immersive Weekend „Holding Space“ in Munich 🌞

We’re diving into the final preparations for our first training dedicated to the topic of creating and holding space and safe and supportive environments. As the first day deepens the practice and preparation of holding space for oneself, being aware of stories, projections and challenges, the second day contributes to how we hold space for one another. What is needed in terms of safety and support, which are limits and boundaries and what is the commitment that lies behind it.

If you feel the call to join us for one of the days, you are invited to come to the circle for one day as well.

Saturday, 21st September - Being present and holding space for oneself
Sunday, 22nd of September - Being present and holding space for others

The price for one day is 195 Euro. For all who want to join the whole training last minute, we offer spots for 390 Euro instead of 450 Euro.

Pics by .zmnn

09/04/2024

Last spots for module 2 and 3 in Greece!

As summer is slowly fading, we are calling in a time of transition and inquiry. This is a beautiful time to embrace yin and dive into stillness.

We still have some spots left for our upcoming trainings in Greece. Join us on a small organic farm by the sea on the island of Evia, near Athens.

Module 2 – Embracing the Yin Path (50h)
September 24-29, 2024
with Biff Mithoefer, Eric Archer & Julia Kupke
http://www.biffmithoeferyoga.com/module-2--greece.html

Module 3 – Yin Yoga & Storytelling (50h)
October 1-6, 2024
with Biff Mithoefer & Eric Archer
http://www.biffmithoeferyoga.com/module-3--greece.html

You don’t need to be a teacher or even experienced in Yin, just come with an open heart and a willing mind. The modules can be taken in any order.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to get in touch!

08/13/2024

Biff is looking forward to being back with the communities in Europe in September and October.

For the first time we’re coming to Portugal and are so excited to hold an immersive weekend at our friend studio in Lisbon.

Also for the first time there is a collaboration with Biff’s sister in law and brother Annie and Michael Mithoefer for the immersive weekend Holding Space to Create Safe and Supportive Environments in Munich.

Here’s an overview of all events in Europe. Please reach out in case you have any questions.

GERMANY, MUNICH

20th of September
Yin Yoga Special – a journey to listen deeply with Biff Mithoefer and Julia Kupke

21st & 22nd of September
Holding Space to Create Safe and Supportive Environments – An Immersive Weekend with Biff Mithoefer, Michael Mithoefer, Annie Mithoefer and Julia Kupke

GREECE, EVIA

24th - 29th of September
Embracing the Yin Path - Module 2 (50h) Yin Yoga Training with Biff Mithoefer, Eric Archer and Julia Kupke

1st - 6th of October
Yin Yoga & Storytelling - Module 3 (50h) Yin Yoga Training with Biff Mithoefer and Eric Archer

PORTUGAL, LISBON

11th of October
Yin Yoga Special – a journey to listen deeply with Biff Mithoefer and Julia Kupke

12th & 13th of October
Yin Yoga Introduction – a journey to listen deeply with Biff Mithoefer and Julia Kupke (20h)

Find all dates and details through the link in the bio and on our website.

Love from the Jamtse family

Pic by .zmnn

08/06/2024

Grateful for these words by one of our students.

Biff Mithoefer, author of The Yin Yoga Kit and founder of Jamtse School for Yin Yoga will be offering several trainings, workshops & classes in Europe in the next months.

Check out our schedule for all dates: http://www.biffmithoeferyoga.com/2024-schedule.html

07/23/2024

MUNICH - we’re so happy to be back in September and come together in community. There will be two group formats. We’re starting with a Yin Journey to listen deeply on a Friday evening. For the weekend we worked on a new weekend immersion, in which Michael and Annie Mithoefer will partake with their specialized experience.

Holding Space to Create Safe and Supportive Environments – An Immersive Weekend with Biff Mithoefer, Michael Mithoefer, Annie Mithoefer and Julia Kupke
21st + 22nd of September 2024 - Munich

In this immersive weekend we will look closely into the question of what it means to be fully present for another person. To do this we must first of all explore our relation to being truly present for ourselves and how holding space for ourselves relates to our capacity to holding space for others.

we can learn from the Yin practice itself to create and hold space for other people’s experiences. This can vary from the setting of offering yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices, to working with people in a therapeutic context to simply being present with people in a private or work environment.
Creating and holding space for others are words that need to be filled with meaning and intention. Holding space starts with holding space for ourselves. From this foundation we’re able to hold space for other people.

We offer support without interfering,
we join without merging,
and guide without controlling.

As we are aware of our own stories, we can leave behind our projections toward others and become an ally on someone else’s journey. It’s a way of caring deeply without attachment and prejudice.

You’ll find more info through the link in the bio. Reach out, in case you have any questions.

Pics by .zmnn

06/25/2024

What would it mean to gather in stories and silence for peace?

What would it mean to look deeply into our own life, and its relations, actions, choices, and passions to find ways to practice this peace, and share in any abundance that may have come to us?

Here the practice of Yin Yoga, a simple physical expression of arriving with acceptance, can continue to sculpt our connective tissue, our awareness, and our hearts at once.

Learn time-honored approaches of how to lead and practice Yin Yoga with clarity and authenticity from our own experience and practices. How to understand and be present with emotional and physical intersections, which can reveal memories, stories, and aspirations in the body. Build on your understanding of Taoism, Anatomy, Archetypes, and the Jamtse focus of compassion into this practice of quiet power.

Join us in Greece this fall:
September 24 - 29: Embracing the Yin Path: Module 2 (50h) with Biff Mithoefer, Julia Kupke & Eric Archer

Octover 1 - 6: Yin Yoga & Storytelling: Module 3 (50h) with Biff Mithoefer & Eric Archer

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Rhinebeck, NY
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http://biffmithoeferyoga.com/

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