Ayurveda & Yoga Master Workshop Bern

 Date: Saturday, 16 January 2027 | Time: 09:00 – 14:00 | Teacher: Master Shahid Khan

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Most wellness advice addresses chronic fatigue, joint restrictions, and digestive sluggishness with superficial, one-size-fits-all routines. This intensive Master Workshop in Bern bridges classical Ayurvedic physiology with applied movement science, delivering a clear diagnostic blueprint of your internal system and the exact movement protocols required to optimize it.

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Led by Master Shahid Khan at Yogveda Yoga Bern, this workshop is open to all.

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Ayurveda & Yoga Curriculum: What You Will Learn

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1. Ayurvedic Anatomy & Tissue Science: The 5 Elements and 7 Dhatus

• The 5 Elements (Pancha Mahabhutas): How Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space act as real physical forces in the body, dictating your weight, body temperature, and joint mobility.

• The 7 Tissue Layers (Sapta Dhatus): How the body builds itself layer by layer—from plasma (Rasa) and blood (Rakta), through muscle (Mamsa), fat (Meda), and bone (Asthi), to nerve tissue (Majja) and reproductive vitality (Shukra).

• Why Tissues Break Down: How a breakdown in early tissues leads directly to stiff fascia, weak ligaments, and joints that refuse to heal.

• Ojas (Immunity & Tissue Resilience): Understanding your body’s primary biological buffer that keeps tissues supple and the immune system strong.

• Tejas (Metabolic Fire & Hormones): How your cells transform food into energy, maintain systemic heat, and regulate hormonal balance.

• Prana (Nervous System & Respiratory Dynamics): How respiratory dynamics govern the autonomic nervous system and muscular control.

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2. Ayurvedic Diagnostics: Doshas, Gunas & Constitutional Mapping

• The 3 Doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha): What these energies actually do physically—Vata drives movement and nerves, Pitta runs metabolism and heat, Kapha provides joint lubrication and structural mass.

• The 3 Gunas (Mental & Autonomic States): Assessing your mental state through clarity (Sattva), stress and restlessness (Rajas), or sluggishness and brain fog (Tamas).

• Prakriti and Vikriti (Baseline Constitution vs. Current Imbalance): The vital distinction between your natural genetic constitution at birth (Prakriti) and your current state of systemic imbalance (Vikriti). Learn how treating current symptoms without knowing your baseline creates chronic health loops.

• Hands-on Ayurveda Dosha Test: Step-by-step diagnostic testing to accurately identify both your Prakriti and your active Vikriti profile.

• Nervous System Assessment: Identifying how your current mental and emotional stress is directly causing your sleep issues and muscular tension.

• Connecting Symptoms to Root Causes: Learning why your specific digestive issues, joint aches, or chronic fatigue are happening based on your diagnostic results.

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3. Enteric Nutrition & Digestion: The 6 Tastes (Shad Rasa) & Agni

• The 6 Tastes (Shad Rasa): A breakdown of Sweet, Sour, Salty, Pungent, Bitter, and Astringent, and what each taste physically does inside your body.

• Digestive Fire (Agni): How to evaluate your own digestive strength and fix sluggish or erratic digestion without extreme diets.

• Metabolic Waste (Ama): How undigested food turns into systemic buildup that settles in your joints and causes chronic stiffness.

• Using Taste as Medicine: How to select specific tastes to calm down an agitated nervous system, cool down inflammation, or kick-start a slow metabolism.

• Practical Daily Food Rules: Simple, realistic ways to eat for your specific body type so you maintain steady energy all day.

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4. Hands-on Practice: Asanas & Pranayama for Dosha Balancing

• Asanas & Pranayama for Vata Imbalance: Grounding postures, pelvic stabilization, and slow, warming breathwork to settle nervous system overdrive and lubricate dry joints.

• Asanas & Pranayama for Pitta Imbalance: Lateral ribcage opening, cooling abdominal release, and targeted breathing techniques to purge excess internal heat and down-regulate stress.

• Asanas & Pranayama for Kapha Imbalance: Dynamic movement, chest mobilization, and stimulating breathwork to activate lymphatic drainage and break through physical stagnation.

Key Takeaways: What You Walk Away With

• Your Personal Body Profile: A clear map of your natural birth constitution (Prakriti) alongside your active imbalances (Vikriti).

• Asanas & Pranayama for the Doshas: Direct understanding of the exact yoga postures and breathing techniques required to rebalance Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.

• A Daily Food & Taste Guide: A straightforward reference sheet showing which foods and tastes balance your system and which ones trigger inflammation.

• Diagnostic Tools for Daily Life: Clear principles to spot imbalances in yourself.

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Master Workshop Schedule & Structure: Bern 

• Part 1: Ayurvedic Anatomy & Diagnostic Testing

  The 5 Elements, the 7 Tissues, Ojas/Tejas/Prana, Prakriti vs. Vikriti mapping, and hands-on Dosha/Guna testing.

  (Short Break – Tea & Coffee)

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• Part 2: Digestion, Metabolism & The 6 Tastes

• Part 3: Hands-on Practice I (Asanas & Pranayama for Vata & Pitta)

• (Short Break – Tea & Coffee)

• Part 4: Hands-on Practice II (Asanas & Pranayama for Kapha & Integration)

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Location, Dates & Registration: Yogveda Yoga Bern, Switzerland

• Date: Saturday, 16th January 2027

• Time: 09:00 – 14:00 (Includes 2 short breaks; complimentary tea and coffee provided)

• Location: Yogveda Yoga Bern, Switzerland (Centrally located with direct train connections from Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, Geneva, and across Switzerland)

• Instructor: Master Shahid Khan

• Price: 125 CHF

• Capacity: Strictly limited to 20 spots (to ensure individual posture review and diagnostic guidance)

[ Register for the Master Workshop – 125 CHF ]