Thursday, January 30 – Sunday, February 2, 2025
Enjoy a few days of retreat and practice of Hormonal Yoga, learning the GPBALANCE method directly from its creator, Professor Gustavo Ponce. We will have free time to rest and enjoy the spectacular facilities of Canal Om.
GPBALANCE is a method created by Gustavo Ponce based on traditional yoga, honoring the Indian philosophical heritage, while offering a modern and concrete method. This hormonal yoga technique will allow you to restore your vitality and naturally rebalance your hormonal health and/or that of your students/patients.
This event is open to those who want to teach the method, but also to those who are interested in learning it for their personal practice.
Practice
The 5 sections of GPBALANCE:
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The study of different breathing and postural techniques: Kaya Stairyam Sankalpa, Bija Mantras, Prana Vidya, Kapalabhati, Bhastrika 1, Bhastrika 2. These techniques work on stillness, stability and concentration of body and mind as well as the channeling of energy.
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Preparatory work of simple postures lying on the back, accompanied by visualizations and the various breathing techniques studied in the previous section. This enables us mobilize energy around pelvic region.
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Standing postures whose primary objective is to strengthen the flexibility, strength, balance and agility of our whole body. This also enables us to mobilize energy throughout the body.
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In this section, the focus is on pressing the pubis to the ground and strengthening the core area of the body as well as the abdominal area. We will also perform a series of inverted postures.
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This last seated section will cover different techniques such as Uddiyana Bandha, Agnisara Dhauti, Nauli, Ashwini Mudra, Nadi Shodhana Pranayama. The essential objective of these techniques being to achieve a rebalancing of the hormonal system in a more intense way than during the various techniques and asanas proposed in the previous sections. They also help to cleanse and lighten the body of functional obstacles caused largely by stress. We end this last section of the practice with a brief contemplation (which includes your last Sankalpa), Neo-Tummo and Yoga Nidra.
The whole series uses different techniques and concepts that we be explored throughout the teaching:
- Asanas
- Mudras, especially kechari Mudra (used throughout the practice)
- Kriyas
- Bandhas (very frequently used during practice)
- Chakras and Prana
- Visualization and concentration (very frequently used during practice)
- Meditation
- Neo-Tummo
Testimonials
This practice overwhelmed me by the sensations it provides, a particular state oscillating between power and calm. It is so complete and so different from other practices, that it is worth discovering, teaching and practicing.
Fanny Chassefière (France)
With Fanny Lehideux + Frédérique Verdeau (France, 2021)
A great week, my body is already feeling the benefits of the practice. Thank you Fanny and Frédérique for sharing your knowledge, and thank you to all the girlfriends.
Elisabeth Geymet (France)
With Fanny Lehideux + Frédérique Verdeau (France, 2021)
As I believe nothing happens by chance, GPBALANCE was exactly what I needed. A lot of broken paradigms, a practice partly very different from the one I have been practicing for years, which is based on Iyengar Yoga, but a practice that energizes me and strengthens my body a lot, I feel really good.
Mariana Akamine Bergamasco (Brazil)
With Gustavo Ponce (Brazil, 2021)
The GPBALANCE Hormonal Yoga workshop led by Gustavo Ponce is simply spectacular, extraordinarily clear and enjoyable. For me, it meant discovering and understanding the importance of the pelvic floor and why a physical problem might occur in the future. I discovered exercises that will give me security in the future both in the sexual aspect and in the prevention of certain dysfunctions that fortunately I do not have yet.
Ana María Saldivia (Chile)
With Gustavo Ponce (Chile, 2022)