Cultivating Inner Light: Yoga and Well-Being Through the Dark Season

As we transition into the dark period of the year, this fall yoga workshop offers a space to slow down, reconnect, and explore simple practices for supporting your mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to move through the darker months with greater awareness and balance — not by resisting the darkness, but by caring for ourselves within it and cultivating our own inner light.

Through guided meditation and breathing practices, dynamic and gentle yoga, singing bowls, and reflective journaling, you’ll be invited to pause from the busyness of the season, turn inward, and reconnect with the qualities that help you feel grounded, nourished, and at ease.

There will also be space for optional sharing and conversation — an opportunity to connect with others around our experiences of the darker season.

The workshop offers an opportunity to explore how small, intentional practices can help us navigate seasonal change, support our mental health, and create a sense of warmth and steadiness from within.

No previous experience is needed — simply come as you are. Please bring a journal or notebook and writing tool.

Tea and light snacks will be provided.

Lyudmila Klasanova:

Lyudmila Klasanova is an Associate Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, holds a PhD in Indian and Tibetan Culture, and is a long-standing lecturer at the Centre for Eastern Languages and Cultures at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.” She is also a former Research Assistant in Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

She began practising yoga in 1996 within the Satyananda Yoga tradition and subsequently completed a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training course with the French Federation Tantra–Kundalini Yoga, as well as a Multistyle Yoga Teacher Training (200-hour YTT) and a Tantra Teacher Training course (75-hour YTT) with the Indian school Kashish Yoga, registered with Yoga Alliance.

She has also completed a Children’s Yoga Teacher Training course with Yoba, Norway.

She has studied Buddhist philosophy at a number of Tibetan centres in Asia and Europe and has specialised in Tibetan yoga (tsa lung) at Nangten Menlang International.

Caroline Young Kyllingstad:

Caroline Young Kyllingstad is a registered yoga teacher, healthcare journalist, and nutrition therapist. She brings together her expertise in nutrition, body image, mental health, and yoga to help people develop more peaceful relationships with themselves. She is the owner and founder of Whole Self Nutrition, a virtual business offering nutrition, yoga, and media services.

Caroline has completed a 200-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher training, along with additional yoga training, such as yin yoga, restorative yoga, gentle yoga, trauma-informed yoga, yoga for eating disorders, and yoga philosophy.

For more than 15 years, she has taught yoga in various settings in the eastern U.S. and Bergen, including traditional studios, addiction recovery centers, yoga retreats, and the great outdoors.

Her work is rooted in the belief that health and wellness involve the whole person, and that yoga can be a meaningful tool for supporting physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Investment: 500 NOK

Early Bird: 400 NOK ( Available until 10th of October)