Yoga in Chiang Mai — All classes are cancelled for now
“You do not need to compete for your own best path. It is just you who is out of, or in the way of, your own potential.”
Yoga Studio & Drop-In Classes at Blue Garden Chiang Mai
For now we are closed for yoga. At Blue Garden Yoga Chiang Mai everybody is welcome who wants to practice yoga in our beautiful garden studio surrounded by plants and trees. We offer different yoga classes in Chiang Mai (from stronger to softer), a weekly handstand practice. All taught with love, precision and humor, at very affordable prices. Just come, move, breathe, relax and most important have fun……at our beautiful Yoga studio in the old center of Chiang Mai.
“Testimonial from long term Yoga student”
“Remco you know I think a lot of you as a very gifted teacher and healer, and I am not very quiet about that! But it is your genuine concern based on observations that most sets you apart from other teachers. You appear to be very comfortable within your own skin. Your gift for laughter and seeing the humor in life is an added benefit to our relationship. Be well, and see u in November, then I will be back in Chiang Mai to practice Yoga with you”
(read more testimonials here).
We are right in the heart of the old city of Chiang Mai close to all guesthouses and just a 1 minute walk from Thapea Gate.
For more information about our private yoga, body awareness sessions, or online video classes, click one of the links below:
- Private Yoga Sessions
- Body Awareness Sessions
- Online Yoga Classes (24 Lessons) with Remco
- Personal Thoughts about Yoga
Private Yoga Sessions
Tailor-made to your needs
A private Yoga session is a great way to improve your Yoga practice (or to start it) by working 1-on-1 with an experienced teacher. This class is completely designed according to your needs and the specific areas you want to work on. It is also highly effective for targeting physical problem areas (such as back pain, tight shoulders, or hip restrictions) to find out which poses and movements will be the most beneficial for your body. In this session, I will also share practical tips and tricks on how to safely progress your personal practice.
Private Yoga in Chiang Mai
Duration: 1 hour
Price: 700 Baht
Body Awareness Sessions
Aligning yourself with your body
This session is unique in Chiang Mai as it is a combination of an Advanced Thai Massage, meditation, and a private yoga session to give you heightened awareness and insights about the functioning of your body, helping you manage injuries or prevent them entirely. By the end, you will have a much deeper understanding of your body mechanics and a targeted set of Yoga stretches to work on your specific problem areas.
In this session, we start with a 2-hour full body massage. During this massage, your body will be opened up, and at the same time, you will become more aware of where your structural restrictions lie. After this massage, we will take a short break and then continue with a tailor-made private yoga session of 1 hour. In this private yoga class, most of the attention will be given to how to safely open those specific problem areas. At the end of the full session, you will leave with a custom yoga home program.
Body Awareness Session
Duration: 3 hours
Price: 1,700 Baht
Online Yoga Classes (24 Lessons) with Remco
Bring the Blue Garden Studio Practice Into Your Home
If you cannot visit us for private in-person coaching but still want to build a deep, safe, and anatomically precise personal practice, you can access our complete digital archive. This online series features 24 fully recorded yoga lessons taught by Remco, focusing heavily on core stability, mobility, joint decompression, and body awareness.
Whether you are a beginner looking to understand your body mechanics or an advanced practitioner wanting to deepen your alignment science, these lessons allow you to practice at your own pace, anytime, anywhere in the world.
Online Yoga Training Archive
Format: 24 Video Lessons (Full Streaming Access)
Platform: Available instantly via our student dashboard
Some Personal Thoughts About Yoga Practice
Just be aware
The last years Yoga is getting ever more popular, and these days Yoga comes in many forms and shapes, from gentle stretching to a vigorous workout in a heated room. In my opinion it does not really matter which form you are practicing.
For me the practice of yoga means helping me to feel well and happy, not only during a session, but also afterwards. On the most superficial level it is helping my body, getting more flexible, creating more stamina, building strength, healing my body, understanding my body better, what it can and cannot do. Basically make me feel at ease and comfortable with my body. Also accepting my body in whatever it has to offer me at any moment of time, but at the same time allowing me to change my body. Maybe the right word to use here is increasing my body awareness.
This is very closely linked to awareness and mindfulness. Yoga helps me to train those. Knowing and understanding my body, mind, emotions, breathing and getting more intimately attuned with them is allowing me to be more in tune with the moment. Being more relaxed or at ease in the moment brings me closer to my own nature, which is one of basic goodness, and trusting our nature.
These days more attention is focused on the outside then on the inside. Also in our yoga practice it is some times so easy to get carried away by difficult poses, or gaining flexibility, that we forget to focus inward during the practice and start focus on other (maybe more flexible) people, or start comparing progress with our last session. If our yoga practice is like that our practice becomes a mere physical exercise and we are losing the real sense of practice. This is not only to create a healthier body, but also a happier mind.
Most important in whatever yoga you practice is that it feels good for both body and mind, be compassionate to yourself and that you are having fun while doing it.
Some words of advice
Having practicing Yoga for over 20 years now and teaching yoga in Chiang Mai for 10 years. I know how hard it can be to keep a steady practice. I also had periods that I went astray and did not practice, but I always seem to find my way back. Sometimes it feels so much easier to go for an instant gratification after a long day, turning on the TV, grabbing a chocolate bar and lie on the couch, but there will always be a sense of dissatisfaction in there. Just remember how you feel after a session of Yoga and the long term benefits for both body and mind.
If you have problems doing your own practice, it may be helpful to follow classes on a regular basis and maybe sometimes visit a new Chiang Mai yoga studio or a different teacher. When you are practicing by your self remember that habit is creating a habit. Have a routine, a set time and place and do not make sessions to long, you might feel discouraged when you know that you have to do a long session.
Background of Yoga
Yoga is probably the most ancient form of exercise, tracing back more then 3000 years before the birth of Christ form. Although it is been associate to Hinduism, Yoga is indeed more ancient then Hinduism. The main of goal of Yoga in those days was to prepare the body for austere meditation practice where the yogi need to sit in a meditation pose, silently, focused, sometimes for hours in a row. So doing Yoga postures and pranayamas (breathing exercises) would prepare both the body and mind for this.
Yoga (in India sometimes pronounced as Yog) is word originated from the Sanskrit language, it has different meanings, but the overall consensus is that it means; uniting, merging or joining. The word yoga has its roots in the Sanskrit language and means to merge, join or unite. Yoga is a holistic practice, which helps the yogi by merging the body, breath and mind to achieve its own potential (or its own buddha nature). In yoga the practitioner believes that breath and body closely related with the brain (or mind). So when the Yogi connects to his/her breath and hold their body in an Asana (a steady pose) and at the same time being aware and mindful about the bodily sensations and fluctuation of the mind, the Yogi can create a deeper connection to herself and achieve harmony, peace and bliss within herself. Yoga also can be seen as an inner journey which give a yogi the tools (like awareness, mindfulness, meditation, breath, posture, yoga nidra) to move away from all the outside turmoil and find a quiet peaceful place within
Like mentioned before today we would describe as being holistic. For the ancient yogi it went without saying that a healthy body (through exercise, diet, breathe) could only coexist with a healthy mind and healthy emotions. In this way one can achieve balance and true deeper happiness in every area of our lives