Workshops & Seminars

“Until an acorn grows to become a mighty and venerable oak, its Dharma remains an unexpressed potential. We too carry an invisible potential within our being.”

quoted from The Book of Dharma, The Dharma Code

Explore Simon’s workshops and interactive seminars

Simon Haas offers a variety of online and in-person workshops and seminars. These can be structured to meet the specific needs of your audience, your yoga teacher’s training course, or any special focus of your group.

They can be short one-hour or two-hour events, longer half-day events, or structured as a series over several days.

If you would like to invite Simon Haas to speak at your event, please contact us below.

workshop 1

The Dharma Code:
Yoga Principles for Enlightened Choices

Would you like to improve your ability to make conscious choices? Do you want to overcome harmful habits and addictions? Join Simon Haas, author of The Book of Dharma, and discover an age-old system, using four universal yoga principles, for making enlightened choices in your life and reaching your full potential. This interactive Dharma workshop makes ancient yoga teachings easily accessible, empowering participants to make decisions aligned with their true purpose.

  • Explore an ancient yoga system for directing your life more consciously.
  • Identify and break free from limiting habits and patterns of behaviour.
  • Begin creating new, helpful habits aligned with your purpose.
  • Discover an ancient system for manifesting your full potential by improving the quality of your choices.

“Simon Haas does a marvellous job of culturally translating these teachings for contemporary readers, free from jargon, in a way that offers immense value.”

Ariadna Landman

Ayurvedic practitioner & founder, VitalVeda

Workshop 2

Yoga and the Dark Night of the Soul:
Overcoming Life’s Greatest Challenges

Explore the Bhagavad Gita’s teachings on harnessing the power of yoga during times of difficulty or crisis. In this interactive seminar with Simon Haas, we will examine the four signs of a dark night of the soul, and explore how to overcome fear, lamentation, and confusion—the three types of suffering associated with time.

  • Learn to identify a dark night experience by its symptoms.
  • Understand what brings about a dark night of the soul.
  • Explore an ancient yoga system for navigating life’s most turbulent times.
  • Take your yoga practice beyond the yoga mat and make it a guiding life practice.

Workshop 3

The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita:
Taking Yoga Beyond the Mat

In this interactive workshop on the Bhagavad Gita, a classic on yoga, we will explore the text’s eighteen yoga systems, focusing on immediate practical application in daily life. Each of these systems provides a method of taking yoga beyond the yoga mat into everyday life, so that we can act more skilfully, aligned with our purpose, and in a way that brings out the very best in us.

This workshop is an ideal addition to a yoga teacher’s training course. As well as offering a lively introduction to the Gita as a yoga text (which will include reciting some of the Gita’s mellifluous Sanskrit verses), this workshop will explore the following in depth:

  • Karma-yoga: find purpose and fulfilment through your daily work.
  • Samkhya: discover the changeless self amidst all change.
  • Sattva, Rajas and Tamas: explore the energetic landscape of life.
  • The yoga of the gods and goddesses: how to nurture your divine potential.
  • Bhakti-yoga: how to make your life an expression of sacred love.

“Simon Haas’s quality and presence as a teacher are unforgettable to students who attend his lectures.”

Edgar Ortiz

former President of the Costa Rican Association of Yoga Teachers; founder and Director, Yoga Mandir, Costa Rica

Workshop 4

The Dharma Leadership Course

Never has there been a need as a pressing as now for outstanding leadership. Thousands of years ago, the rishis, or sages of India, understood the importance of great leadership and of the quality of a leader’s thinking and decision-making. They therefore developed a rich heritage of teachings designed specifically for kings and queens, to help them rule wisely.

In this workshop, previously delivered at the United Nations, internationally renowned author and leadership coach Simon Haas will explore what defines great leaders. Using practical examples and drawing from a rich heritage of ancient wisdom texts, we will uncover timeless principles of effective leadership.

  • Discover the most important qualities that make an inspirational leader.
  • Identify and create personal and organizational habits of success.
  • Explore ancient leadership techniques for thinking, communicating, and acting skilfully.
  • Learn to be an effective leader even in times of chaos, difficulty, and rapid change.
  • Find out how to inspire loyalty and generate vitality in your business or team.

About Simon’s Workshops

Simon’s workshops aim to empower participants, helping them lead a life true to themselves, show deep kindness and compassion to others and to themselves, and rupture cycles of habitual suffering.

“Simon Haas’s quality and presence as a teacher are unforgettable to students who attend his lectures.”

Edgar Ortiz

former President of the Costa Rican Association of Yoga Teachers; founder and Director, Yoga Mandir, Costa Rica

“I felt as if my soul was being fed. Simon captures the timeless Vedic truths with so much grace and ease, while weaving his own experiences and modern analogies to show relevancy today.”

Britt Janssen

founder of Kitchen of Love; author of, Kitchen of Love: Recipes to Feed Your Soul

“Simon Haas does a marvellous job of culturally translating these teachings for contemporary readers, free from jargon, in a way that offers immense value.”

Ariadna Landman

Ayurvedic medicine teacher and practitioner; founder, VitalVeda

Our workshop & seminar hosts

These are just a few of the yoga studios and events that have invited Simon Haas to speak.

Contact us to schedule a workshop or seminar, in-person or on-line

To organise a workshop or seminar, please fill out the form. We strive to reply within 48 hours.

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