Öhrn Life Management

Yoga in the Office
Packed schedule and no time to make it to a yoga studio? – We’ll come to you and/or your colleagues in the office.

Private Yoga Class
Want to work on a specific issue? Whether your challenge has a physical, spiritual or mental dimension our we can tailor-make classes for you. Also works wonders in combination with coaching.

Group Classes
Mia Öhrn teaches classes and workshops at the Pilatestudio in Bangkok, Thailand. www.pilates.co.th
Lunch Hatha Yoga Thursdays 12.15-13.15
Prenatal Yoga Thursdays 17.45-19.00
Hatha Yoga Thursdays 19.00-20.15
Hatha Yoga Fridays 9.45-11.00

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.

Undercover yoga

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.

Yoga can be used as a tool that helps you perform your best – in a balanced manner.

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.

Further, she 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.

When we want to bring about change in our lives, we may come to see that we are as stuck in our mental patterns as we are in our physical patterns. Muscular tension may be just one expression of how inflexible we are mentally. If we are stuck in life, how do we then create a space to move? Softening physical tension is a powerful way of liberating ourselves, making room for us to move towards a space of intention.

Stress and memories are stored in different parts of our body. Many of our habitual, mental actions engrave physical marks in our body. Do you recognize the stinging echo in your stomach of a manager’s anger? Or the tightening sensation a short deadline sends to your shoulders? Feel how those long hours in front of your computer hunch your back and nag your neck?

One tactic is to try to remove or avoid those things that cause us stress; but of course, this is not always possible. Indeed, potentially stressful situations may even lie between us and a goal we really want to reach.

However, with the techniques of yoga, we can learn how to respond to stress more healthily and avoid troubling tension. This then gives us the confidence and ability to meet situations which might previously have been intimidating or stressful with calm and ease. This more balanced and open state then allows us to actualise our intentions with greater confidence and efficiency.

In addition to physical yoga postures that promote flexibility, other techniques such as deep relaxation, visualization, breath work and meditation are also used as powerful tools in our classes to promote change.

Mia Öhrn finds great inspiration in chanting Sanskrit, in reading the poetry of Rumi and other masters. She is deeply greatful in particular to the wisdom of the following teachers:

John Friend – for bringing the teachings of yoga to vivid life with clarity and poetry (Anusara www.anusara.com)

Sara Avant Stover – for embodying subtle power and femininity (Hatha www.thewayofthehappywoman.com)

Jonas Westring – for accurate alignment instruction rooted in physiotherapy (Anusara www.shantaya.org)

James Boag – for bringing traditional yoga teachings alive in Sanskrit and stories (Bhagavad Gita and yoga philosophy)

Adrian Cox – for confidence and for teachings which encourage exploration (Vinyasa www.yogaelements.com)

Ole Schmidt – for teachings of acceptance (Satchidananda yoga www.yogacentrum.se)

Now expecting her second child, Mia Öhrn loves to share how yoga can support women through both pregnancy and birth. She believes there is nothing more powerful than a pregnant lady, displaying the wonder of nature’s infinite creative power.

Read more about her thoughts about pregnancy and yoga under the Blog section on this web site.

She guides pregnant clients in her prenatal yoga classes offered either in a private setting or in groups every Thursday evening from 5.45 pm – 7 pm at the Pilates Studio in Bangkok. >www.pilates.co.th

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.