Next Session: May 31st
This workshop is built around one thing: the breath.
Not as a technique to perform — but as something your body already knows how to do, and has slowly forgotten.
Over three hours, we work through the anatomy of breathing, simple exercises to restore its natural completeness, and sequences from Yantra Yoga — an 8th-century Tibetan system that coordinates breath with precise, unhurried movement.
We close with the Nine Purification Breathings, a practice that precedes most formal Tibetan sitting practices. You’ll understand why.
No previous yoga experience needed.
You leave with a practice that belongs to you.
We will breathe together through:
- Breath Perception. The anatomy of complete breathing. Simple exercises to release tension and restore the body’s natural respiratory pattern.
- Body & Breath. Yantra Yoga movement sequences. The Nine Purification Breathings. Integration and rest.
- Short breaks between blocks.
Lily Orlova
The instructor of the workshop
“I came to Yantra Yoga in 2010, when I met the Dzogchen master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. I had practised Hatha and Iyengar yoga for years before — but this was different. The precision of it. The way breath and movement were inseparable.
Lily Orlova
I trained with senior instructors Fabio Andrico and Laura Evangelisti over several years and began teaching in Amsterdam in 2018. What I teach now is what I wish someone had shown me earlier: that the breath is always available, and that learning to use it changes everything about how the body holds the day.”
About the Method
Yantra Yoga is one of the oldest documented yoga systems in the world. It arrived in the West in the 1970s, brought by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu — one of the foremost Dzogchen masters of the 20th century.
Where Hatha yoga works primarily with posture, Yantra Yoga works with the relationship between movement and breath. The positions are precise. The timing is precise. The result is a practice that works at the level of the nervous system — not just the body.
It was developed for this. The Tibetans knew, long before the term existed, what regulation feels like.
Practical Information
Location
Svaha Yoga (Downtown), Begijnensteeg 1, Amsterdam (city centre)
Timing 14:30 – 17:30
Please come at least 15 mins in advance to change, look around and prepare for the session.
What to wear — Comfortable, layered clothing. Warm socks. No shoes in the space.
What to bring — A mat and blanket if you have them; we have spares.
Price
€35 If finances are a barrier, write to us: yantrayoga@dzogchen.nl
Spots are limited. Reserve yours with a €15 deposit or full payment → bank link to secure a spot
This workshop is part of a series.
These workshops are not drop-in classes.
Each session builds on the last —
breath, movement, perception —
until you have a complete practice
you can return to independently.
We meet a few times a year, in small groups.
You leave with something that belongs to you.
