Name: James Boag: YOGA IMMERSION
Start: 2026-03-20T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Taiji Akademie

The Bhagavad Gītā and the battle to be fully human
Reclaiming human intelligence and cultivating harmony in grounded reality.
A whole life yoga weekend immersion with James Boag
– Enjoy stimulating and refreshing movement practices to foster deeper understanding of how yoga principles can support all types of work, practice and movement.
– Work playfully with coordinative patterns and stimuli, challenging body, mind and senses to easefully, playfully promote neurogenesis and renewal while cultivating dynamic strength, balance and practical mobility.
– Experience nourishing kīrtan and attune to deeper understanding of the practical significance of yoga symbols, deities and stories so we can draw on them with greater confidence to support more clarity in our day to day lives.
– Through moving, memorable and inspiring interpretation of the Gītā’s teachings, you’ll gain practical references to help support skilful, ongoing practice.
– Learn robust and adaptable ‘do anywhere’ techniques to promote circulation of nourishing, harmonising energy and information
– Deepen your understanding of the time-proven yoga principles so you can apply them to your own life and practice.
The morning movement sessions will be accessible for all. We’ll explore yoga principles in action and embodied application. The practices will be fun, illuminating and help inform and empower all types of yogāsana or movement discipline.
When: 20-22 March 2026
Where: Jemný Svět and Taiji Akademie, Prague 2
Price:
the whole workshop: 4900 CZK
Friday: 1300 CZK
Saturday: 2500 CZK
Sunday: 2500 CZK
YOGIC MOVEMENT (SAT and SUN MORNING PARTS): 2500 CZK
YOGIC WISDOM (SAT and SUN AFTERNOON PARTS): 2500 CZK
Morning Session: 1300 CZK
Afternoon Session: 1300 CZK
Registration and further information: [email protected]
Weekend overview:
Complete Schedule:
Friday evening (18:00-20:30):
Introductory talk with movement and kīrtan:
The Bhagavad Gītā – what’s it all about?
Itihāsa – so it happened, so it happens: once upon a time… Background to the Bhagavad Gītā and the Mahābhārata epic it is part of
This introductory talk, which will include some simple exercises along the way, will invite us into the heart of the most treasured text of the yoga tradition. We’ll explore the rich flavour and practical symbolism of the amazing story the Gītā is part of and situate its timeless teachings in relation to our own lives and experience. As we do so, we’ll see how the Gītā invites us to work skilfully and pragmatically with the reality of the human condition.
Saturday morning (10:00-13:00):
Yogic Movement: āsana based exploration
Working with principles from the previous evening’s introduction, this movement based exploration will explore how we can harness a yogic movement or āsana practice to help us create more space, affirm more steadiness, let go of unnecessary tensions and inhibitions, see more clearly where we may be unnecessarily limiting ourselves and invite more grace, beauty and connectivity.
This will include work to mobilise the joints and spine, attune and awaken the body’s different instrumental powers so we can more readily function as a unit and move through life as more of a dance and less of a battle.
Expect principle-based yogic movement work that can inform and support all types of physical practice.
Saturday afternoon (15:00-18:00):
The setting of the Gītā – The field of practice and the battle to be fully human
During this session, we’ll also dive further into the symbolism of the Gītā and consider some of the questions that often come up when first encountering this text:
If yoga is all about peace, why is the teaching given on a battlefield? What does it mean to fight against our gurus?
If yoga is all about serenity, why do we find the protagonist in sorrow and despondency?
Discussion: What’s it all for and how does it work?
As we go further into the teachings, we’ll explore who yoga is for, when and where it happens, how it works and why it’s worth practising. This will include the yogic vision of our essence, key attitudes for practice and why it’s worth the effort!
Sunday morning (9:30-12:30):
Yogic movement: Definitions of yoga, the story of human history and the established yogin
The teachings of yoga are always practical and empowering. As we consider the Gītā’s descriptions of yoga and the established yogin, we’ll see how it offers us an inviting ‘prescription’ for practice.
Here, we’ll explore this prescription and how it invites us to nourishing our broader human capacities and rehabilitate our understanding of who we really are.
Expect dynamic movement work stimulating reflexes and recruiting multiple intelligences to foster neurogenesis and renewal.
Sunday afternoon (13:30-16:00):
Paths of Practice, cultivating sustainable evolution and becoming more established in yoga
Sometimes people suggest that the Gītā offers us many different ‘paths’ of yoga. Here, we’ll consider how these can all be seen as streams in the same mighty river, part of a holistic, adaptable and very practical yoga that invites us into greater human wholeness through all the stages and cycles of life.
Expect storytelling, discussion and kīrtan.
Find more about James:
James teaches yoga and its philosophy all over the world. He focuses on the basic principles of yoga and natural movement. His approach updates the wisdom of traditional yoga teachings for modern times. He studied Sanskrit in Mysore, South India, and has been sharing his experiences for twenty years. In April, he will lead a YOGA IMMERSION workshop in Prague.
More about James at: http://www.jamesboagyoga.com/