Lørdag 6.september 2025
Kl. 11:00 – 13:00
with Claudia Schettini 

Backbends invite us to move counter to our instinctual urge to curl in when we need protection — opening the front body and exposing the heart, both physical and energetic. This act of vulnerability requires courage, and through practice, we cultivate even more of it.

In this workshop, we will explore how backbending is not about forcing but about balancing strength and softness. Drawing inspiration from Patanjali Yoga Sutra I.12 – “abhyasa vairagya abhyam tan nirodhah” – we will learn to move with both consistent effort (abhyasa) and the art of letting go (vairagya). These twin principles are like the wings of a bird: only when working in harmony can we rise.

The workshop includes targeted warm-ups, drills, and partner work to safely deepen your backbending practice, focusing on:

• Spinal mobility
• Shoulder opening and flexion
• Hamstring and glute activation
• Hip flexor strength and release
• Quadriceps stretching

Expect to move mindfully, build confidence, and reconnect with your body’s innate capacity to open — with steadiness and grace…and of course have fun.

Open to all levels.

PRICE workshop:
350,- NOK. Sign up here!
10% discount to members with PREMIUM yearly subscription;  315,- NOK. Sign up here!

Bio:

The first time Claudia stepped on a yoga mat was in 2010… and then she has never got out of it.
Practising yoga taught her that we don’t have necessarily to change our own reality to be happy, but the perspective can be different if we look at it from the heart. Since the very beginning of this life-lasting path, she has been learning from and growing up beside her dearest teacher and mentor, Olga Oskorbina, to whom her deepest gratitude goes.

Claudia’s motto, passed to her from her teacher, is what she aims to teach to her students: “You can’t fall off the path, it is all the path”. This is what she always tries to incorporate in her classes which are dynamic, highly inclusive and accompanied by a playful atmosphere…and always with a big smile.