Quality, care and empathy
Yoga is a joyful and deep experience. A balanced yoga practice contains no pressure. The emphasis is on the development of everyone’s potential with consideration of one’s own abilities in order to gain stability, strength, flexibility and space - not only during the yoga class but in daily life too. A playful and caring attitude offers room for development. What matters is the compassion shown to ourselves and to our surroundings.
YOGA BADEN offers classes in a 170m2, spacious and well equipped yoga hall. It is centrally located at the Merker Areal in Baden. The train station and parking lots are a 3-minute walk away.
Stefanie clearly has many years of experience in dealing with different personalities, people’s abilities as well as their attitudes and perceptions of what yoga means to them. She is very attuned to the needs of the individual student and understands their physical and psychological limitations, often before the students themselves.» - Marie Clarke
Weekly yoga classes
Yoga classes are offered in an open arrangement - you may attend any class of your level at any time. Instructions are given in German (no dialect) and translated into English.
Iyengar®Yoga
Tuesday
10.00 - 11.30 Regular 60+
18.00 - 19.30 Regular
19.45 - 21.15 Basis
Wednesday
18.00 - 19.30 Basis
Thursday
18.00 - 19.30 Basis
19.45 - 21.15 Regular
Friday
10.00 - 11.30 Basis
Levels
Basis
Open for all. No previous experience necessary.
Basic Asanas as well as Pranayama (breathing techniques).
Regular
Suitable for experienced Yogis.
Advanced asanas and pranayama techniques.
Yoga 60+
Open to all older participants. No previous experience necessary.
Also recommended for participants with physical limitations.
Location
Yoga.Baden is centrally located at the Merker Areal in Baden. The train station and parking lots are a 3-minute walk away.
The Merker-Areal is an architectural gem from the 19th century. Since its careful renovation, the "Yellow Square" has housed an urban microcosm of craft and high-tech companies, therapists and cultural establishments such as the Stanzerei. The yearly Fantoche and Figura festivals as well as the music festival "one of a million" are hosted here. Popular hangouts include the restaurant Spedition and the Rampe Bar.
Stefanie’s yoga cannot only be physical, because it requires a lot of focus too, how to control your muscles and how to stay in the asana for a long time. It is a physical training as well as a mental exercise and helps to develop discipline and determination not only in Yoga but also in other aspects of life.» - Dubravka S.
Iyengar-Yoga is accepted by many Swiss health insurances as a preventive measure. Please check with your insurance.
Getting there
Stefanie Amrein
Stefanie Amrein's first encounter with yoga was in 1981. In the following years she trained as a certified Iyengar®Yoga teacher at the Iyengar Yoga Institutes in Pune, India and Berlin. Thanks to the direct influence of BKS and Geeta Iyengar and with more than 30 years of continuous study and practice, Stefanie's teaching incorporates all aspects of yoga: eagerness in practice, science, art form and lifestyle.
YOGA.BADEN was personally certified by BKS Iyengar in 2003 and is the first Iyengar®Yoga school in the canton of Aargau.
Yoga happens - wherever you are
Yoga guides me through my life. It helps to keep me balanced and to be able to face daily challenges with empathy and serenity.
A balanced yoga practice contains no pressure - a playful and caring attitude offers space for development. What matters to me is compassion shown towards ourselves and our surroundings.
My students are my teachers. My daily encounters with yoga practitioners are a learning process for us all. New movements are waiting to be explored, old habits to be changed - for my students and for myself.
1981 | Start of my personal yoga practice |
1997 | Discovery of Iyengar Yoga |
2003 | International Certification Iyengar®Yoga Teacher |
2001 / 2003 / 2005 | Study at Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Institute Pune, India |
2003 | Opening of yoga.baden |
2008 | Launch of Yoga Retreats + Workshops |
2010 | Regular participation in advanced training Remedial Work Iyengar®Yoga |
2011 | Study «Yoga and Ayurveda» in Dehra Dun, India |
2015 | Launch of «Yoga.medical» |
2019 | Workshops Yoga and Mindfulness with Bruno Amrein, MBSR |
Stefanie is special in her way of teaching because she is really dedicated to students. For the first time I have the feeling that I am learning something not just copying what the teacher does.» - Dubravka S.
BKS Iyengar
BKS Iyengar was the founder of the style of yoga known as «Iyengar Yoga». It is a form of Hatha Yoga that emphasises detail, precision and alignment in the performance of posture and breathing control. The use of props such as belts, ropes and wooden blocks helps develop strength, mobility and stability.
The creator of modern yoga
Regular practice of Iyengar Yoga integrates the body, mind and emotions. There is no pressure in Yoga. All that counts is a gradual progression toward good health and inner freedom.
Yoga has no age limit, individual pace and possibilities are the foundation of personal growth, regardless of age, sex or religion. Iyengar Yoga is demanding and relaxing, active and passive, complex and simple. Everyone can choose how far one wants to go.
The yoga of BKS Iyengar
A short insight into the documentary with BKS Iyengar
and Stefanie Amrein
Director + Camera: Bruno Amrein
Dokumentary about the world renewed yoga teacher
BKS Iyengar. (Interviews in English)
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body, to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. » BKS Iyengar
