Sessions and Paths of Practice
Explore the online and in-person options and find the format that best fits your practice.
SESSION SHAPE:
Or: what a practice can look like:
“The shape of an hour”
We begin seated, with a few minutes of arriving — breath, orientation, a short check on what you brought with you. Then movement, calibrated to the day rather than to a plan I made in advance. Breathwork, chosen for what your system needs. A period of stillness, usually longer than you expect. Sometimes sound. We close with something slow and deliberate that marks the end.
If you choose commitment: You’ll leave with one practice to do at home — short, specific, and yours. It’s usually much smaller than people want it to be. That’s on purpose. The practice you’ll actually do beats the practice you’d admire yourself for doing.
We Begin where you are
You don’t need huge flexibility, experience, or a settled mind. You need a ground and the willingness to come back to it.
there are four ways to enter and deepen your practice, online and in person:
1:1 sessions, with emphasis on ritual, alignment, and sustained practice.
Deeper in-person guidance, for those seeking a more embodied, grounded experience.
Cyclical accompaniment for deepening your practice and personal guidance.
Sādhanā immersions with extended practices, silence, philosophy and contemplative depth.
Sessions
Choose the format and contribution that suits your path.
Available Sessions in more detail:
1
Single session:
With emphasis on ritual, alignment, and sustained practice.
One meeting, built around the day you’re actually having.
We begin with a short conversation, then move — āsana calibrated to your body, breathwork chosen for your state, a period of stillness. Sometimes sound.
You leave with one practice to take home: short, specific, and yours.
For: trying this out, or a practice you want to reset. Also useful as a standalone when something’s happening and you need an hour of skilled company in your own body.
2
Cyclical sessions:
A month of weekly practice, held as a continuous arc rather than four separate classes. Each cycle follows a thread — a theme in the body, a season, a text — so the practice accumulates instead of resetting every week.
Included:
- Four live sessions, in person or online
- A short home practice, updated as the cycle moves
- Email support between sessions
For: building the habit rather than the highlight. This is the path for people who want practice to become ordinary..
3
DEEP SĀDHANĀ:
8 sessions · Online or in person · Priced individually — we’ll discuss it on the call
Individual accompaniment over time, for practitioners who want the practice built around their actual life rather than around a class schedule.
We begin with a longer intake conversation — your history, your body, what you’re carrying, what you’ve tried, what you’re avoiding. From that I design a practice that’s yours: sequenced for your nervous system, adapted for your injuries and your hours, revised as you change.
Included:
- Eight individual sessions, online or in person
- A personalised practice plan, written and revised across the eight weeks
- Monthly check-in outside the sessions
- Direct support between sessions via WhatsApp
- Written material, recordings, and practices specific to what we’re working on
- Priority access to immersions and retreats
For: a practice that’s stalled, a transition you’re moving through, or the point where you’re ready to stop attending classes and start having a practice.[ Enquire about Deep Sādhanā ]
4
IMMERSIONS // WORKSHOPS:
Extended practice · In person · Dates announced seasonally
A day or several, given over entirely to practice. Longer movement, longer stillness, silence held longer. Philosophy discussed. Nada (sound), and usually time outside with plants and land.
For: practitioners who want depth that an hour can’t reach, and who are willing to give a few more hours or days to find out what’s underneath the daily practice.
5
INTEGRATION:
By arrangement · Online or in person
For people processing an experience they’ve had elsewhere and want somewhere grounded to bring it.
Integration is the unglamorous half of this work and the half most often skipped. An experience is not a change; what makes it a change is what you do with it, your mornings and days afterwards. My role here is practical: steady embodied practice, breath, and honest conversation, so that what happened has somewhere to land in an ordinary life.
To be clear about scope — I don’t supply anything, and plants play no part in a yoga session. This is the work that comes after, or the conversation that comes before, including the conversation about why use plants as allies and why not.
[ Enquire about integration ]
ON COMMITMENT – AND Why depth takes time
A single session can be genuinely useful. But the changes people usually come here for — a nervous system that settles faster, a practice that survives a bad mood or a month, a different relationship with the body — happen through repetition and TIME, not revelation and magic.
Three months is roughly the minimum for noticing anything structural. Not because I’ve set a rule, but because that’s how the material works.
You’ll be given practice to do between sessions. It’ll be short. What you get out of this is fairly directly proportional to whether you do it — and I’d rather say that plainly at the start than imply otherwise and let you discover it later.
IN EVERY SESSION
- Practice adapted to your body, that day, rather than to a plan made in advance
- Postural precision in service of awakening Sensation and awareness.
- Breathwork you can use outside the session, with an explanation of why it works
- One home practice, small enough that you’ll actually do it
- No hierarchy about level, flexibility, or experience
PRACTICALITIES
Where — In person in Alto Paraíso, Brazil. Online, anywhere. (EN/PT)
What you need for online — A mat, a wall, and time for yourself.
in English. (Portuguese coming soon.)
Booking — By appointment. Weekdays and some weekends.
Payment — Prices in EUR. (Currently handled privately via WhatsApp)
HOW TO CHOOSE – Start here:
If you’re new to me, start with a recognition call or a single session. If you know you want a rhythm, start with the monthly cycle. If you’re working on something specific — a transition, an injury, a practice that’s stalled, a life that needs restructuring around something — start with Deep Sādhanā.
If you don’t know, book a call. That’s what it’s for.
To book a call email: kalinova.yoga@proton.me