Vinyasa Yoga with Kristin Tovson

02/02/2024

Hello Yoga Friends,
I have two spots open in my spring retreat April 26-28th! Details here: https://kristintovson.com/offerings/workshopsandretreats/

Would love to see you there!

09/09/2023

Yes!

This is the nightly chant said at Upaya Zen Center. Or as Mary Oliver wrote: What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

04/04/2023

Finally getting around to posting some photos from my yoga and meditation retreat in March. What a great group! I feel grateful to be able to do this. Look out for another one in the fall!

23/02/2023

Hello Yoga Friends!
I have one more room open in my Yoga and Meditation Wellness Weekend, March 17-19, at Rosenwaldhof just outside of Berlin.
It's a double room (bring a friend or enjoy it yourself) with a private bathroom at a lovely and peaceful retreat center in Brandenburg.
I'll be teaching vinyasa and restorative yoga, as well as breath work and meditation sessions. There will be free time to explore the beautiful nature around us. Yummy organic food and massages are also on offer, all for an affordable price. Message me here and thanks for your interest!

Details: https://kristintovson.com/offerings/workshopsandretreats/

23/02/2023

Hello Dear Yoga Friends!
I have one more room open in my Yoga and Meditation Weekend Retreat, March 17-19 at Rosenwaldhof just outside of Berlin.

It's a double room with a private bathroom (bring a friend or enjoy the space yourself!) at this lovely and peaceful retreat center in Brandenburg. I'll be teaching vinyasa and restorative yoga, plus breath work and meditation sessions with a lovely group. Yummy organic food and massages are also on offer, all for an affordable price. Message me here and many thanks for your interest!

Details here: https://kristintovson.com/offerings/workshopsandretreats/

05/09/2022

😂 You know what is helpful? Yoga! Looking forward to seeing you in person or online:www.kristintovson.com

Speedbump Dharma 🙏🏽😂

12/01/2022

Hi yoga people! In these trying (here we go again) times, I've somewhat spontaneously decided to offer an online yoga workshop.

Saturday Jan. 22nd from 3-5 pm (CET). You can join me from the comfort of your home wherever you are in the world!

We'll reconnect to our bodies via invigorating movement and breath, taking the time and attention to cultivate our well-being. We'll end with loving kindness meditation and restorative poses, so we can deal with what is with a clearer mind and heart.

Cost is 35 euros, via bank transfer or PayPal. Message me and I'll send you the details and the zoom link.

Wishing everyone lots of strength and continued resilience in 2022!

22/12/2021

Have been quiet these past few months, but wishing everyone a peaceful holiday season. May your practice be a place of refuge and joy. See you next year!

15/08/2021

Back in Berlin and teaching classes and one on one. Hope to see you on the mat! 😊

In the meantime, a poem for Sunday morning (author credit below)

my brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another

- instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week

and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so,

lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut

who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away

"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

~ john roedel

23/07/2021

My beloved Kalaa Yoga is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Workshops galore in August and September including one from me on September 5th. Support your local studios and teachers!! ❤️

Wir werden bald 10 Jahre alt - na wenn das kein Anlass für ein KALAA Yoga Festival ist🎉👯‍♀️🍾

Rund um unser 10-jähriges Jubiläum am 3. September 2021, feiern wir die vielen verschiedenen Facetten von KALAA Yoga Berlin mit einer Serie von 10 Workshops. Nach dem extrem angespannten letzten Jahr, ist dies unser Weg nach vorne zu blicken und das zu zelebrieren, was wir am besten können.
Die Plätze im Studio sind stark begrenzt, also wartet nicht zu lange um euch anzumelden und bei diesem ereignisreichen KALAA Yoga Monat dabei zu sein. Alle Workshops können auch Online besucht werden.

Hier ist das komplette Programm, die einzelnen Sessions könnt ihr über unseren Stundenplan auf der Website buchen. The party is on!🙌

Freitag, 20. August: 14.00 –17.00 Uhr
Drills for skills – Techniken und Training für Armbalancen

Sonntag, 22. August: 14.00 – 17.00 Uhr
Bird Poses – Leichtigkeit und Auftrieb finden

Freitag, 27. August: 14.00 –17.00 Uhr
Angewandte Anatomie für deine Yogapraxis

Sonntag, 29. August: 10.30 –13.00 Uhr
Einführung und Vertiefung der Pranayamapraxis

Freitag, 3. September: 14.00 –17.00 Uhr
Die Körpermitte – Zentrum für innere Kraft und Selbstvertrauen

Freitag, 3. September: 18.00-20.00 Uhr
Geburtstagsworkshop mit Manu und Stefanie im Team

Sonntag, 5. September: 14.00 –17.00 Uhr
Slowing down the practice: Gentle techniques, Restorative yoga, Meditation

Freitag, 10. September: 14.00 –17.00 Uhr
Yoga outside the box – Move, play, invert, challenge

Sonntag, 12. September: 10.00 –12.30 Uhr
Der Körper als Tempel - Yoga als holistisches System

Sonntag, 12. September: 14.00 –17.00 Uhr
Yin Yoga

23/06/2021

Last classes this week before a summer break:

Thursday 5:45-7pm Vinyasa and Restorative online at Yoga Sky. www.yoga-sky.de

Saturday 10am-11:15 Vinyasa in person and online at Kalaa Yoga. www.kalaa-yoga-berlin.de

Hope to see you in class!
Have a healthy and safe summer!

18/06/2021

Yoga in the garden of Kalaa (www.kalaa-yoga-berlin) tomorrow—Saturday June 19th at 10am! Bring your sunscreen!!😎 Come take class before I head to my beloved Montana👇 for July!

07/05/2021

Calling all yogis! Deepen your practice and learn to share it with the world with this amazing program!

30/04/2021

Got my first vaccine shot today—thanks to having a cancerous mole removed which bumped me into a higher priority group. Feeling grateful and even better, the doctor who gave me my shot recognized me from taking my class at Yoga Sky! Of all the doctors in this giant Impfzentrum! He said my class was the only yoga class he ever liked 😊

21/03/2021

Thinking about yoga teacher training? I can vouch this high quality program (where I also teach 🙂 Support your local studio!

21/02/2021

Yes. 100%!

15/02/2021

Spring Awakening Retreat 2021--Sunday March 7th.

Compassionate Abiding--Making Friends with Ourselves

Join me and Molly Moylan Brown for a half-day yoga and creative writing retreat to invigorate and revitalize your body, mind, and soul. Morning and afternoon sessions offered.
RSVP here or kristintovson@gmail.com!

Space is limited to 10 participants to create a sense of community and connection.

Feedback from our sold out Winter Retreat:
"I found the yoga brought me great feeling which was then expressed personally and communally with the writing group. I really felt so well and whole as it ended." - AK

"It exceeded my expectations! There was a real sense of community that I hadn't experienced with online events. The yoga practice was relaxing and grounding. And I especially enjoyed the creative writing that had a nature theme." -FD

"Thank you so much for this retreat! Very inspirational and moving. Molly, I found your individual feedback very helpful and soothing whenever there was a need. What a great retreat!" - UM

"Very satisfied. It felt like the right amount of yoga and meditation and the right amount of writing and discussion and listening for being on a zoom call. I would do this monthly, or at least quarterly!" - SR

20/01/2021