The teachers at Ask Retreat Centre
Ask Retreat Centre was established in 1998 by Bjarke Jørgensen and Audhild Naustdal. Ask Retreat Centre is part of the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School. It offers deepgoing retreats in yoga, tantra and meditation under ashram like conditions as well as a yogateacher education in cooperation with Swami Janakananda and the rest of the branches of Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School. Read more about Swami Janakananda and the yogachool >>
Bjarke Jørgensen
is Danish and was born in 1954. Aften a 3-month Course in 1976 he joined the yogateacher education by Swami Janakananda in search of combining an active, creative life with spiritual qualities. In 1983 he founded the Yoga School in Bergen, Norway. Bjarke has been teaching Classical Yoga for more than 25 years, the last 19 years also the advanced tantric meditations, Antar Mauna and Ajapa Japa. His creativity has also been put into painting, computer graphics, desktop publish, building traditional norwegian timberhouses etc. Bjarke live together with Audhild and their 11-year old boy, Mikal, at Ask Course Centre.
Audhild Naustdal
is Norwegian and born in Førde in 1959. She is educated by Swami Janakananda and Bjarke and has taught yoga and meditation since 1988 with Yoga for pregnant woman as her speciality. Audhild has a background as a pre-school teacher, but from 2001 she has been full time working as yogateacher. She is also responsible for the productions of Futon yoga mats for the yoga schools in Norway.
Guest Yoga Teachers at Ask Retreat Centre
Hamsananda
born in Denmark, has lived in Germany since 1988 and is the founder of the school in Hannover. After more than 25 years of teaching experience, there is hardly a situation he has not taught in, from prisons in Denmark and package holidays in Greece, to medical clinics in Germany.
Hamsananda often works in cooperation with doctors and researchers, investigating the effects of yoga and meditation. He also is a skilled craftsman; a large part of the building work at the branches of the school is planned and supervised by him.
Yoga Shakti
is from Denmark, but she now lives in the school in Hannover that she leads together wih Hamsananda. During her philosophy studies at Copenhagen University, she participated in several yoga courses in Copenhagen and at Håå. This resulted in her deciding to explore life rather than to read about it.
Yoga Shakti started her yoga teacher training in 1989 and since then has taught at the schools in Århus, Copenhagen and Hannover. Her speciality is yoga for pregnant women.
The last years Hamsananda and Yoga Shakti has developed Harberger Yoga Retreat Centre in the countryside outside Hannover - where they are also living together with their daughter.
