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Mia Öhrn takes great care to create a certain feeling to every class and sets a theme at the beginning to focus the students’ practice. During the 1-1.5 hour long class the theme takes the shape of different breath work, physical postures, deep relaxation and meditation.

From the start students are guided from the outside world inwards by conscious breathing exercises. The movement of the breath then extends throughout the body in a gentle warm-up that develops into various sequences of physical postures, all in tune with the breath.

After the physical postures culminate in playfully challenging poses, the cooling-down part of the class progresses into a guided deep relaxation, allowing the body to fully absorb the benefits of the practice. The body having been prepared to sit comfortably, the class is then closed with a brief meditation.

Drawing upon her background of Hatha and Yin Yoga, in combination with her studies of yogic philosophy and meditation, Mia Öhrn’s classes are carefully composed to be physical yet mindful, both calming and invigorating, as well as fun and inspiring. Each class offers the student a chance to become more grounded and experience the bliss of complete presence.

A certified prenatal teacher, she also warmheartedly cares for pregnant ladies, generously sharing her own experience of the wondrous state of childbearing.

Do you recall where in your body you could feel the disappointment of a friend who let you down, or when a loved one left you? -There is no coincidence that we talk about a broken heart.

In yogic theory, certain parts of our body represent certain qualities. By focusing the class on a specific body part we work on specific issues, and promote a desired quality.

You may have realized that you are ego-centric in your career, pursuing it at the expense of time with your family and fiends. Or you have got your dream position but are not happy. Or you do not feel connected with your colleagues.

To address these issues, you can focus your yoga practice on the heart. By physically creating more space around the heart through chest openings and back-bends, you cultivate mental qualities of compassion, respect, understanding, acceptance, love to others – and to yourselves.

Other parts of the body represent other qualities that we can guide you to in yoga classes, helping you to promote characteristics that help you consciously reach further.

To stay on a path that resonates with your core values and your true self can be challenging. Patterns, structures, habits, beliefs, colleagues, friends and family may tie you to behaviour patterns that may no longer serve you.

Yoga furthers focus and clarity of mind and enables you to see what is right for you at this moment in life – and what is no longer right. Meditation furthers the clarity and reminds you why you want to stay on the path that you feel is right for you. The powerful tool of visualization can help you bring about changes you want to see.

Also, the more physical dimension of yoga, the postures, can foster the qualities you want to promote. For example, if we want to boost our courage and conviction for change, yoga postures can be used to develop these qualities.

All yoga postures develop balance and as we move from one posture to another, we learn how to stay centred even as we change. As we balance in different ways: on one or two feet, on our hands or arms, even on our head, we learn to stay balanced in different ’situations’. At the same time, challenging balances can help us develop focus and determination, to stay concentrated and alert so we can maintain the posture; they can even help us develop courage, as we learn to confront fear – for example while balancing on our hands or upside down – with calmness and equanimity.

One of the beauties of the yoga practice is that it develops these new ways of meeting stress or fear with equanimity – as positive habits. Through the techniques we use, we teach ourselves, at the physical and mental level, to respond to stress in a much healthier fashion.

Furthermore, by recalling the way we meet challenges on the yoga mat, we can gain greater confidence to do away with what we no longer need and move in the direction we want to.

Throughout every class, the different focuses help develop habits and awareness which are useful for everyday life. For example, the warm-up section reminds us of our ability to change the way we feel quickly and easily. As we bring greater freedom to our joints, it shows us how we can fill our body and the space around us with so much more awareness once we just focus in on breath and movement. Standing postures build strength, stamina and calm resilience, teaching us how to face tension with ease. Postures that open the chest can help us open the heart to the future. The corpse pose at the end of the practice is healing and restorative. It allows us to gather in the benefits of the practice and reminds us that adequate time for rest and assimilation is the basis of all activity and the foundation for productivity and change.

Reach inside – reach further

Most people think of yoga as a means to create strength, flexibility and balance on a physical level. By exploring the broader picture of yoga, you will also become stronger and more flexible on a mental level, preparing you to bravely face challenges in life and to reach the goals you set. Working more deeply inside the body and mind you achieve deeper peace and integration from the inside out and can radiate more positive influence and be more efficient and productive ‘outside’: at work, at home, in the family and in the broader society.

Yoga Teacher Mia Öhrn draws from her personal experience of applying yogic principles to meet the challenges of a demanding diplomatic career in a balanced manner. Working together with performance coach Fredrik Öhrn, she tailors yoga classes to support clients’ work for change. Read more below about how yoga can be used as a tool that helps you perform your best – in a balanced manner.

Creating lasting change
Turning tension to intention
Like body, like mind
Physical yet mindful classes
Prenatal yoga
Inspiration

Individual needs, individual classes
Mia Öhrn’s classes are tailored to respond positively to the specific challenges of the individual, group, or team she is teaching.

Undercover Yoga
Mia Öhrn offers inspirational talks on how by applying yoga philosophy to everyday life, you can live a more balanced life, stress less and be more mindful through discreet yet effective methods that she refers to as Undercover Yoga.

Hypnotherapy can be used as a standalone treatment for a specific issue, or as part of the personal coaching process. In both cases, hypnotherapy can be a highly effective tool to remove a block in the form of a habitual behavioural pattern, which could be a phobia, an addiction, or a habitual way of feeling about oneself, another person, situation or perceived problem.

Hypnosis achieves this by using the natural trance state, a state our minds pass through many times each day. Fredrik facilitates entry to this state to work on something previously agreed on with the client. In this state of deep relaxation, in which the client always remains in control, we can bypass the logical, reasoning part of the brain and access that part which holds long-term memories and shapes habits so that they can be changed and re-aligned with our wishes.

Hypnotherapy is applicable in many spheres: for health and general well-being, for overcoming specific issues and for greater success in sports and competition.

For example, for health-related issues it can help beat addiction to smoking, or poor eating habits.

It can be used to work with specific problems, such as a fear of public speaking.

More holistically, it can work to change the way we feel about a person or situation and even help us develop greater ability to focus or change the way we respond to stress.

For sports, it can help competitors deal more positively with the stress of competition. Another key application of hypnosis for the athlete is the way it can be used to learn powerful visualization methods. The deeply relaxed trance state can be used to instruct and give a client experience of the visualization technique which they may subsequently be able to use by themselves.

Most of us are familiar with the idea that the mind makes up 85% or more of our performance, but what do we do about training for it? What are we willing to do?

Often we “don’t mind” doing a few extra laps in the pool, on the track or hitting the driving range more often in order to help us achieve our goals. But how about training effectively in order to give ourselves the mental edge?

Most athletes, whether professional or not, have experienced times when they are ‘in the zone’, where they are performing at their physical and mental best in what some describe as a state of ‘Flow’.

For many of us though, this remains an unconscious process outside our normal conscious awareness.

It may be true that games and races are won away from the crowds on empty roads, in the gym or the pool before break of dawn, but they are also won outside of the conscious mind. Personal coaching can give you the tools to access the zone every time you race and in every game, moving beyond the limited, logical thinking of the conscious mind to unlock the potential of  the unconscious and get in the zone.

Perhaps you love training but dread racing, perhaps you are afraid of failure or nervous about a certain part of your sport, whether it’s the swim in a triathlon or teeing off in front of your customers at the annual company golf tournament. Perhaps you feel like you are missing something, maybe you think you are not performing at your best and wondering if it could be a mental block.

Schedule a session and we can identify how personal performance coaching, which may include hypnotherapy and visualisation techniques, can help you excel and enjoy all aspects of your sport more fully.

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Studying and learning new skills can be an immensely rewarding part of life. However, sometimes studying can be intimidating. Even if we want to learn something new, we may feel blocked in some way.

We might find we have problems concentrating, or that we don’t seem to be able to perform to our ability in tests or exams. We might feel we have difficulties learning a certain subject, such as a foreign language, chemistry or math, or studying with a particular teacher. Perhaps you find that you read slowly and therefore it takes too long to go through and do your homework each day.

Maybe you feel that you learn slowly altogether and wonder why you learn things outside of school more quickly.

Whether we are in school, college or university full time, or if we are going ‘back to school’ for training or a course for career or personal development, there is no need to let any negative feelings hinder our studies.

With Öhrn Performance Coaching and hypnotherapy you can overcome your blocks and start to enjoy learning new things, making study a natural and enriching part of life.

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