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Heidi R Yoga

Ashtanga yoga with Heidi Ruokoniemi (KPJAYI/SYC Level 2). Traditional Mysore style classes, worksho Ashtanga Yoga with Heidi Ruokoniemi (SYC Level 2).

Traditional Mysore style classes, workshops and online classes.

16/06/2026

Summer, slowly. ☀️

There’s something special about yoga practice in the summertime.

No rushing out of the door.
Fewer schedules.
Long moments of sipping the post-practice coffee.

Time for reading, swimming, resting, and noticing the beauty of summer — even in the middle of the city.

This Sunday, at the summer solstice, we begin our Summer Retreat at Kadermo Conscious Living in Hanko.

A few days of yoga, meditation, chanting, sauna, delicious plant-based food, and good company.

And this Thursday is our final online Mysore class before our summer pause. We’ll meet again in August.

However you’re spending these midsummer days, I hope they bring you a little more space, joy, and ease.

Happy midsummer ✨
Heidi

02/06/2026

”I should do my practice.”

Have you ever noticed how heavy that sentence feels?

For many of us, ”should” comes with a hidden message:

You’re behind.
You’re not doing enough.
You need to try harder.

No wonder it’s hard to roll out the mat.

But what if discipline didn’t have to feel like pressure?

What if practice could be something you return to because it nourishes you—not because you’re forcing yourself?

What’s the difference, for you, between discipline and pressure?

This is the theme of my upcoming online workshop:

✨ Yoga Practice as a Healthy Discipline
🗓 June 13th
🧘 Led Primary Series + discussion

We’ll explore how to cultivate consistency without turning practice into another obligation on an already full to-do list.

If you’d like the details, send me a message or email me at [email protected].

And if you’re not on my newsletter list yet, I’d love to have you there. That’s where I share upcoming classes, retreats, reflections on practice, and the occasional musing on life, yoga, and all the ways we humans make things more complicated than they need to be. 😊

Comment ”NEWSLETTER” below or send me a DM, and I’ll send you the link to join.

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26/05/2026

Would you for once just like to… just be?

To breathe.
To watch the sea.
To feel the sun and the wind on your skin.
To practice yoga without pressure.

Without rushing.

To enjoy simple things:

coffee,
fresh fruit,
a nourishing meal,
good conversations,
silence,
nature.

And maybe, in that space, reflect on questions like:

Why do we practice?
What is the self?
How can we find peace and contentment in everyday life?

Sometimes, when we slow down and simply allow ourselves to be, something quietly begins to shift.

This is my invitation to join the summer retreat at Kadermo Conscious Living in Hanko, Finland, June 21–26.

A few days to step away from everyday noise and reconnect with yourself through practice, nature, silence, and community.

If this speaks to you, you’re warmly welcome 🤍

19/05/2026

Where do you go when you practice? 👀

Into the breath?
Into your head?
Into “why is this pose suddenly impossible today?” 😅

Yoga has this sneaky way of showing us how we relate to ourselves.

The inner coach.
The critic.
The one trying very hard to be “good.”
The one who just wants a nap in savasana.

And often… we don’t even notice the conversation happening.

This Saturday, we’ll explore all of it together — through practice, reflection, and a little curiosity.

✨ Led Primary Series + Talk
🗓 Saturday, May 23
🧘‍♀️ Online

We’ll move, sit, breathe, snack ☕️ and explore:

Yoga, the Self & Learning to Be Free from Self-Judgement

Come as you are.

To join:
Email [email protected] with
“I’m in for Saturday, May 23rd!” 💌

14/05/2026

A few moments from our Ashtanga Yoga intensive in Seinäjoki over the past two days ✨
Sometimes, being together helps us remember how to listen to ourselves again.
To slow down, connect, share, and return inward.

And then… back to the mat with fresh inspiration ❤️

Our next Seinäjoki workshop will be January 22–24 — save the dates!

(Photos 3&5 by )

26/04/2026

A few moments from Kuopio this weekend.

Loved the shala and the atmosphere of Mysore classes, and the great conversations we had about asana, meditation and the (un)stability of the mind.

I also loved the art, the pizza and the moments of sewing together at the art museum with , and . ❤️

No need to fix the experience. Kiitos, kuopiolaiset! 💗

21/04/2026

One of the most quietly powerful things about practice?

You’re not doing it alone 🤍

Even when it looks like it — just you, your mat, and your breath (and maybe your to-do list sneaking in…) — something bigger is happening over time.

Because we keep returning to a shared space.

I see it every week:
Someone arriving tired… but staying.
Someone negotiating with their resistance.
Someone starting again after a break.
Someone just practicing, without trying to be “good” at it.

And somehow, all of that belongs.
We’re not there to perform.
Or prove anything.
Or get it right.
We’re there to meet what is — kindly.

And that’s where the real magic is.

Not in the shapes.
Not in the progress.
But in that quiet feeling of being held…
In a community where you can show up exactly as you are.

(This is also where your nervous system quietly relaxes, by the way.)

This is very much alive right now inside Practice of Returning – Spring Cycle.

Even online, it’s real. People showing up from their own homes, their own lives — but not alone.

If you feel like having a space like that, you’re so welcome to join:

• Practice of Returning – Spring Cycle (online)
• Kuopio (this weekend)
• Seinäjoki (May 13th to 14th)
• Kadermo Retreat (June 21st to 26th)

Come as you are. Come when you can. Come a little tired, a little unsure, or just curious.

There’s a place for you here 🤍

Photo credit: alex911photo, St Petersburg 2018

09/04/2026

Our next Saturday Online event will be on April 18th with the theme "Yoga as a Tool for Clearing Old Patterns".

Here's the program:
8.45 AM EEST: Silent sitting
9 AM Led Primary Series
10.25 Snack break
10:35 to 12 PM Yoga as a Tool for Clearing Old Patterns

Fee: 40 euros. Led class only: 20 euros.
Send me a message to join!

P.S. The Practice of Returning -- Spring Cycle has just started and there are still a few days to join the full spring program. We're starting on Sunday evening with Yoga nidra, talk and chanting. Wanna join and meet this spring differently? (Link in Bio)

08/04/2026

I remember my first Ashtanga Yoga class.

It was a Friday evening in May 2004, and the bright spring light filled the room.
Something in me softened and it felt like coming home.

And somehow… that feeling has stayed.
It’s what keeps bringing me back to the mat.

—

But what happens on the mat hasn’t always been peaceful or pretty.

I’ve compared myself to others.
Felt resistance, fear, doubt.
Wanted to escape the moment (even to the bathroom 😄).
Wanted to be “better.”
Felt like I wasn’t enough.

And also…
I’ve felt clarity.
Groundedness.
Moments of being deeply held.

The whole range of being human.

—

And somewhere along the way, it’s easy to forget:

Beneath the poses, beneath the practice…
what is it that we’re really returning to?

For me, it’s simple.
A feeling of coming home.

—

So I’ll leave you with this:

What is the space you would like to return to in yourself?

—

This Sunday, we open The Practice of Returning — Spring Cycle with a talk, chanting, and yoga nidra.

If you feel the pull, you’re warmly welcome to join us 🤍

02/04/2026

Summer retreat at Kadermo Conscious Living in Hanko, Finland, from Sunday, June 21st, to Friday, June 26th, with me! 💛

The retreat program includes daily Mysore classes (with a weekly led class) and meditation in the mornings plus Yoga Sutra, chanting, and meditation sessions in the afternoons.

All classes are taught in an approachable way, and all the teachings are tied to our daily experiences in life and practice.

The fee (600 euros) includes accommodation, delicious meals (fruit and smoothies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner made by the famous Anu Ganesh from Mysore, India), the yoga program, and taxi + boat transportation from Hanko railway station.

I like Kadermo because of the silence, nature, and the relaxed atmosphere of the island. The retreat center has been running since the 90s, and everything is well organized.

There is also a little European-style cafeteria (right next to the yoga shala) and a possibility to take a dip in the sea (right next to the cafeteria).

It’s a perfect place to get away from the hectic rhythm of urban life and forget about the screens and the news for just a while.

Find out more: www.kadermo.fi

Book your spot: [email protected]

See you there! ✨✨✨

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