6-DAY WORKSHOP WITH
TARA MITRA
MAY 04 - 09, 2025
SUNDAY, MAY 04
07:00 - 09:00 Morning Mysore
Moving through your personal ashtanga sequence, guiding you with tips and ideas to create ease and ensuring safety & longevity of your practice. Tara is fluent in Ashtanga through 2nd series and some of 3rd Series and can guide you safely and playfully through your practice. She is also a Yoga Therapist and can help modify to create ease, restore or relieve depending on the condition.
09:00 - 10:30 90 min break
10:30 - 12:00 Workshop I: Introduction to Āyurveda & Daily Practices
The sister science that is often coupled with a steady yoga practice for a holistic way of healing the body, mind and spirit. Learn some simple practices that you can incorporate into everyday life as well as how to nourish the body, to keep digestion (agni) healthy and other ways to create better balance for your personal constitution. Tara shares these ideas come from over a decade of studying and experimenting with natural health and nutrition and will share how you too can put it into practice.
Tara will also make a tea for you to sip on while sharing these concepts on this ancient healing system.
12:00 - 12:30 30 min break
12:30 - 14:00 Workshop II: 8 Limbs in Daily Life
Ashtanga Yoga or 8-limbed yoga is an 8-part method as referenced in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Tara will move through each of these limbs discussing them from a philosophical lens while highlighting how you can integrate these eight limbs of ashtanga yoga into our modern daily life. Linking Traditional Yoga to Everyday Life.
Tara will end the class with a powerful Vedic Chant and Dharana practice.
14:00 - 14:30 Q&A
MONDAY 05 MAY - FRIDAY 09 MAY
06:00 - 07:00 Pranayama & Chanting
A brief introduction to Traditional Pranayama teaching you 3-5 different types of pranayama and preparatory practices, their uses and when / how to use them to settle the body and mind. Followed by 15 minutes of chanting a series of stotrams and mantras to clear the space and invoke the divine.
07:00 - 09:00 Mysore Style Class
Moving through your personal ashtanga sequence, guiding you with tips and ideas to create ease and ensuring safety & longevity of your practice. Tara is fluent in Ashtanga through 2nd series and some of 3rd Series and can guide you safely and playfully through your practice. She is also a Yoga Therapist and can help modify to create ease, restore or relieve depending on the condition.
OTHER OPTIONS
1:1 – YOGA THERAPY SESSION (OUTSIDE PROGRAM)
1:1 – VEDIC CHANTING (OUTSIDE PROGRAM OR SMALL GROUP)
Sessions are available upon request and can be arranged either in person at the shala or online. Please reach out to Tara directly via email at taramitrayoga@gmail.com to schedule in advance.
ABOUT TARA MITRA
Tara’s love for the human mind brought her to yoga over 21 years ago. She has been a dedicated practitioner of yoga and has been blessed to practice with some of the most dedicated ashtanga teachers in the world. Studying with Johnny Smith, Tim Miller (completing both his primary and intermediate series trainings), R. Sharath Jois and R. Saraswathi Jois. She has apprenticed for 6 years with certified teachers and R. Saraswathi Jois for 4 of those years in her very busy Mysore shala where she assisted up to 200 students a month for nine months of the year. Tara has a special bond with Saraswathiji and is one of the first few students authorized by her to teach.
Tara is also a Certified Yoga Therapist in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya & his son T.K.V. Desikachar in Chennai, India (C-IAYT). Her interest in yoga therapy is a focus to help heal others from injury and imbalances within the body. She has helped many students learn to understand their bodies while bringing back health and stability through yogic techniques, diet and lifestyle changes.
She has studied Pranayama with Sri O.P. Tiwari, Philosophy with Prof. Nagaraja Rao and Vedic Chanting with Dr. Vigneshwar Bhat and Madhavi Kotha in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya.
Tara has been studying ritual, chanting and Vedic chanting for the last 9 years and is a long time Vipassana Meditator.
Both R. Saraswathi Jois (Authorized Lvl 2), Lakshmi Raganathan & Vigneshwar Bhat have given her blessings to share the teachings as taught to her through parampara.
Tara does not take herself too seriously and teaches in a traditional yet playful manner incorporating the teachings of her teachers.
Find out more at www.taramitrayoga.com
PRICING
Full workshop (6 days)
Early bird discount │ €500
* valid until February 01, 2025
Deposit │ €250
* 50% refundable until April 01, 2025
Regular price │ €550
Disclaimer
Regarding the deposit, the remaining amount of €250 has to be paid by April 01, 2025. The deposit is 50% refundable until April 01, 2025. In regards to either and all payments, no refund is possible after April 01, 2025. Cancellation and partial or full refund requests will only be taken into consideration within valid reason.
Guest teachers are invited only once a year for one week only, so we encourage you to make the most of this unique opportunity. To fully benefit from the experience, we recommend committing to the entire event, which is why single-day attendance is not being offered.
Yoga goes beyond just asana practice and a bit of breathing at the end. Tara will guide us in exploring the deeper aspects of yoga, helping to bring clarity and understanding to these practices so they can be realistically integrated into our daily lives alongside our asana practice.
We practice not just to improve in yoga, but to improve in life. If you are truly committed to this path, we kindly ask that you save the date and set aside time for this event, with this six-month advance notice.
This disclaimer clearly sets the expectations for the workshop, including the refund and cancellation policy, the recommendation to attend the entire session, the reasoning behind not offering single-day options, and the importance of fully engaging with the deeper aspects of yoga. We hope this helps manage participants’ expectations and ensures you understand the commitment required to benefit from the experience.