On the retreat we are focusing for the quiet and healing power of the ancient practice of Ashtanga Yoga. The retreat is meant for everyone who want to deepen their practice in a soft and meditative way.
Petri Räisänen & Eva Ugolini
Ashtanga Intersections: Emergent Healing Spaces with Petri Räisänen & Eva Ugolini
26 July – 02 August 2025 | 02 August – 09 August 2025
Description of the retreat
The Healing Space
Ashtanga Yoga Tradition with Compassion and Care
Ashtanga Yoga Summer Retreat in Salento, Italy in July 26-
August 09 2025
with Petri Räisänen and Eva Ugolini
The retreat is based on Traditional Ashtanga Yoga practice in a quiet, gentle
and safe environment. Petri and Eva are focusing for a therapy and healing
work as well as the vinyasa system and asana alignments. The retreat will be
relaxing and informative Ashtanga experience.
Welcome all level of yogis and yoginis!
This is a family friendly Retreat. Families and children welcomed!
Early bird registration prices available to the end of January.
Registration for Ashtanga Yoga through Petri (praisanen@yahoo.com)
Booking the accommodation through YIS (info@yogainsalento)
Yoga payments will be paid to Petri in cash upon arrival at the YIS office.
Accommodation will have a deposit payment when you are booking your
room.
Please check more ore Info:
https://yogainsalento.com/2017/10/petri-raisanen/
http://www.petriandwambui.com/event/yoga-in-salento-italy-july-27-
august-10-2024/
We are looking forward to seeing you in YIS, practice and talk more soon.
With compassion and care,
Petri and Eva
The Healing Space Retreat with Petri Räisänen and Eva Ugolini
Schedule for the first week July 26 – August 02 2025
Saturday 27th
7:30pm Dinner
Welcome meeting after the dinner at the Yoga Shala
Sunday 28th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
4:00-5:00pm Pranayama
5:15-7:00pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion – What is a Healing Space? /
Ashtanga Yoga as you are!
7:30pm Dinner
Monday 29th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
4:00-5:15pm Pranayama / Chanting
5:30-7:00pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion & Technique – The healing touch
7:30pm Dinner
Tuesday 30th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
5:30-7:00pm Ayurveda in Theory and Practice with Eva Ugolini
7:30pm Dinner
Wednesday 31st
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
4:00-5:00pm Pranayama / Chanting
5:15-7:15pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion & Technique – Primary and
Intermediate Series Techniques (vinyasas, alignments, adjustments, drishtis,
bandhas..)
7:30pm Dinner
Thursday 1st
06:00am Intermediate Series Led Class
8:00am Primary Series Led Class
10:00-11:30am Brunch
11:30-7:00pm Free time
7:30pm Dinner
Friday 2nd
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30 Brunch
4:00-5:30pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion & Technique – Healing and Injury
Prevention through strengthening the body and right alignment
5:45-7:00pm Meditation and Restorative Yoga with Eva Ugolini
7:30pm Dinner
Saturday 3rd
07:30-08:30am Pranayama
8:30-9:00 1st Week Retreat Closing Circle
The Healing Space Retreat with Petri Räisänen and Eva Ugolini
Schedule for the second week August 02-09 2025
Saturday 3rd
7:30pm Dinner
Welcome meeting after the dinner
Sunday 4th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
4:00-5:15pm Pranayama / Chanting
5:30-7:00pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion – What is a Personal and Collective
Liberation?
7:30pm Dinner
Monday 5th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
4:00-5:15pm Pranayama / Chanting
5:30-7:00pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion & Philosophy – Patanjali’s Yoga Path
7:30pm Dinner
Tuesday 6th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
5:30-7:00pm Ayurveda in Theory and Practice with Eva Ugolini
7:30pm Dinner
Wednesday 7th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30am Brunch
4:00-5:00pm Pranayama / Chanting
5:15-7:15pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion & Technique – Primary and
Intermediate Series Techniques (vinyasas, alignments, adjustments, drishtis,
bandhas..)
7:30pm Dinner
Thursday 8th
06:00am Intermediate Series Led Class
8:00am Primary Series Led Class
10:00-11:30 Brunch
11:30-7:00pm Free time
7:30pm Dinner
Friday 9th
06:00 & 7:45am Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style
10:00-11:30 Brunch
4:00-5:30pm Ashtanga Yoga Discussion & Technique – Healing and Injury
Prevention through strengthening the body and right alignment
5:45-7:00pm Meditation and Restorative Yoga with Eva Ugolini
7:30pm Dinner
Saturday 10th
07:30-08:30am Pranayama
8:30-9:00 2nd Week Retreat Closing Circle
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Salento
The YIS retreat centre is located in Zollino, in the heart of the Salento. Twenty minutes from both coasts and from cultural centres such as Lecce, Otranto and Gallipoli.
Our yoga retreats are also an opportunity to get together, share good moments, pamper yourself and enjoy the beauty of the Salento in a peaceful environment. Give yourself an energetic recharge through vegan and vegetarian organic food, eco-sustainable tourism and relaxation in our spaces.
Our staff are at your disposal for the entire duration of the retreat to advise you about the must–see places in the Salento, organise excursions, guided tours, gastronomic tours, transfers, rentals and anything else to make your stay enjoyable.
For all information, call +39 0836 600284 or send an email to info@yogainsalento.com.
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The Location
Our retreats take place at Agricola Samadhi, a unique organic farmhouse because it proposes something more than just recreation.
In this charming oasis, the lifestyle revolves around well being: you can combine your stay with a SPA, Ayurvedic consultations and treatments, and a wide range of massages and more.
You can regain your well being through a variety of top–level yoga classes. There is also a SPA Healing Centre and the HQ of YIS, Yoga In Salento, a European leader in yoga retreats, for years a favourite destination of the best internationally renowned teachers in the world.
An energy recharge and psycho–physical well being will be the most precious gifts of your stay that you’ll take home with you, together with the new friendships you’ve made during the retreat.
BOOK YOUR STAY
7 or 14 nights
6 brunches per week
7 vegetarian dinners per week
1 breakfast per week
double, single or shared rooms
A very wide swimming pool and beautiful gardens
Spa Healing Center. Treatments and massages on request
Petri Räisänen (born August 13, 1967) is an internationally renowned
and respected yoga teacher. A devoted student of his guru Sri K.
Patthabi Jois (1915– 2009) and Paramaguru R. Sharath Jois. Petri
carefully passes on his Guru’s exact teachings.
Petri started practicing Ashtanga yoga in 1989 and teaching in 1991. He
is co-owner and director of Ashtanga Yoga Helsinki, one of the world’s
most established Aṣṭāṅga Yoga shalas. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois blessed the
school to teach the traditional Ashtanga method.
In his yogic path Petri has studied with respected Ashtanga yoga
instructors such as Derek Ireland (his first certified teacher), Radha
Warrell, Lino Miele, Gwendoline Hunt, Eddie Stern, R. Sharath Jois and
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
Petri focuses on integrating healing and therapy with yoga, meeting
student’s individual needs and guiding their progress. His friendly,
relaxed behaviour and intuitive perception give an open, energetic and
meditative atmosphere to his classes. Petri’s Mysore teaching gives you
an opportunity to experience the wholeness of the practice, and his
teachings aims to lead to an experience of deep concentration
(pratyahara) and meditation (dhyana).
Petri has been written two books on the subjects of Ashtanga Yoga. First
one “Ashtanga Yoga – In the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois” was first
published in Swedish in 2005 and in English in 2013. The intermediate
series book “Nadi Sodhana” was released in Finnish in 2007 and English
in 2017. Both book are written from the interviews with Sri K. Pattabhi
Jois and R. Sharath Jois, the masters of Ashtanga Yoga system. They
illustrate uniquely the Primary and Intermediate series practice, benefits
and tradition as it is taught in Mysore, India.
Petri’s variety of body-therapy work
Petri started studying the Finnish Folk-healing tradition called
Jäsenkorjaus (Bone-setting), with the Finnish healing masters in 1988.
In his 12 years of studies and 10 years of Folk-healing work he learned –
besides of variety of Bone-setting adjustments – energy healing and
cupping. He also studied Swedish massage, Naturopathy, Natural
Cosmetics, Reiki, Reflexology and Hawaiian Shamanism. Petri has 25
years of Ashtanga Yoga-teaching experience and 28 years of personal
Yoga practice.
Eva Ugolini
Her deep love and dedication for Yoga starts 20 years ago while immersing herself into Ayurvedic studies and since then both disciplines are a central part of her daily life.
Until 2022 she lives in Amsterdam where she holds for over 10 years an Ashtanga Mysore Program at the prestigious school Delight Yoga where she has the privilege to assist, study and learn from some of the most world renowned Ashtanga Yoga teachers.
Her main guides nowadays are Petri Räisänen who has a great role in bringing to her practice and teaching the elements of contemplation, inner quiet and a broader perspective towards yoga and its evolution over the past decades, and Eddie Stern who has opened a big window into how to experience the practice as a source of steadiness and self observation and as a tool of expansion of awareness in all aspects of life and being.
Today she very happily teaches Ashtanga Yoga and Ayurveda between Amsterdam and Rome as a way to share her love and dedication for these so unique disciplines that can enrich our lives with extraordinary vitality and creativity on all levels.
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