David Keil in Amsterdam: Anatomy Workshop & Mysore Week
April 10-16, 2027
David Keil returns to The Breathing Space this April.
A weekend workshop for yoga teachers and practitioners. Five mornings of Mysore practice with individual attention.
In the Mysore room with David you can expect:
personal attention in a small group
a clear sense of your next step in practice
clarity on what to focus on, and why
inspiration to practise more regularly
time to build a relationship with a teacher
Book the full week as a package, or join the weekend or the Mysore week on its own.
Pricing
Full package · €495 early bird until 1 February 2027, then €525
Weekend workshop · €315
Mysore week · €270
Current members of The Breathing Space receive a reduced price on the weekend workshop or the Mysore week. Email us for your discount code.
Weekend workshop: Seeing Your Student’s Anatomy
Dates: Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 April
Times: 9:00-12:30 & 13:30-17:00
Observation may be the most important skill a teacher has. So much is happening in front of you in every moment. You often only see it once someone shows you how to look. This workshop trains that eye.
We start with your own biases, because they shape what you think you see.
From there, David teaches a formal postural analysis, a method for seeing students in more detail and with less assumption.
Then into movement. Starting with walking, you’ll learn to observe by mimicking a student’s pattern in your own body. Feeling their posture from the inside is often the quickest way to understand what they experience, and how to support it.
Finally, back to the mat. We look at full postures, including the transitions in and out, not only the shape.
The result: cues and hands-on adjustments based on what is really there.
Designed as continuing education for yoga teachers. Practitioners curious about anatomy and observation are warmly welcome.
Mysore week with David Keil
Monday 12 - Friday 16 April • morning practice
Every student deserves guidance that fits their own practice.
In the Mysore room, David works with what is actually happening in your body and your practice, and offers tools specific to you. For David, this is where real teaching and learning happen. When guidance meets your needs, change follows naturally.
Groups stay small, at twelve students or fewer. If more people join, we split into two groups:
6:30–8:30
8:30–10:30
With a single group, practice runs 7:00–9:00. Your time slot will be confirmed once registration closes.
You can read more about David’s approach to Mysore teaching on his website.
About David
David brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world. Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers this complex and sometimes frustrating topic in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners.
Over the years David has used his skills as a Neuromuscular Therapist to help people reduce their chronic pain patterns. He often brings this information into his workshops where students are regularly uncovering painful patterns or injuries in their bodies.
David was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 1999. But it was in 2001 that he met John Scott in Penzance, UK, presenting his anatomy workshops for the first time overseas. Two weeks practicing with John was transformational and he realized that he had found his teacher. This began a relationship of both teacher/student as well as a collaborative colleague relationship that continues today. David still teaches anatomy for all of John’s Teacher Training courses.
It was also John who told David to go to Mysore, India the following year, which he did. David arrived in Mysore in 2002 where he studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala. In fact, it was the last year that the old shala was used for practice. David was authorized in 2004 and returned yearly for extended visits to Mysore with his wife Gretchen Suarez. They are both Authorized Level 2 and grateful for their time in Mysore, meeting Patabhi Jois and studying with R. Sharath, his grandson, over the years.
David is also the founder of yoganatomy.com. This website is about you learning to see and think about anatomy in a new and different way. One that honors its complexity but at the same time delivers it to you in a way that you can understand and use the information.
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