on a prana yoga retreat you don’t escape life, you rediscover it

prana yoga retreat

Healing and wellness

Time to heal body, mind and heart?

Visit us in south Sweden and leave renewed, lighter, and breathe again.

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Control your life force energy

and experience inner healing

Have you felt overloaded for too long?

At times, the weight of life – work, emotions, heartbreak – can weigh too deeply on your heart. This is your moment to let go and breathe again.

A Healing Retreat that focusses on original and easy yoga techniques could be just what you need to hit your reset button. Prana Yoga restores your life force energy (Prana); bringing balance, healing your heart and letting a gentle light of positivity return.

With every mindful inhale, you draw in fresh energy; with every exhale, you release tension held deep within. More than a chance to relieve stress and stretch those tired muscles — it can quitely open the door to lasting change.

In the midst of our fruit tree garden in Skåne’s peaceful countryside, you will find a heart-centered place for deep healing and quiet renewal.

Join us, and see what a more peaceful, heart centred and radiant you might feel like. We are open all year around, but be quick to book to secure your favourite time.

The Swedish Ashram

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Renew Body, Mind and Heart

Learn to Heal with your breath

When did you last pause – just to tend to your own healing?

Short term stress can move you forward, but over time it wears down your health and inner radiance. Life shouldn’t be about merely coping, always running, never arriving. You deserve more than a fleeting escape. A Prana Yoga Retreat is a return to yourself.

Our Healing retreat is designed to release tension and restore balance to every layer of your being; the physical, emotional, mental, energetic and spiritual aspects of your body. With emotional release and yoga for your vagus nerve – your body slowly softens, your mind calms, and your heart lets go of stuck emotions.

You will learn original yoga practices that sets you in charge of your inner state – helping you feel vibrant and energized, or deeply at ease – whenever you need it.

And the real magic?
Discovering how you can be everything at once: calm, energized, and fully alive. Practicing in nature, at a lake or Beach Yoga increases the magic and connects you with the 5 elements.

More than a reset of your well-being: it might just change your life

Why do a Prana Yoga Retreat?

Finding your Inner zen Radiance

How does Prana Yoga Work?

Ever done yoga while feeling off — and somehow felt better after?

That’s not a coincidence. Yoga works with your life force energy, your prana, and when prana flows better, all layers of your being improve.

Prana Yoga works faster because it explicitly focusses on healing all layers of your body — the physical, emotional, energetic, mental, and spiritual levels of your being (koshas).

A Prana Yoga Retreat supports this healing with deep rest, renewal, and connection — set in the natural beauty of Skåne.

Who is Prana Yoga For?

Individuals seeking deep relaxation and renewal
Those wanting to detox body, mind, and soul
People open to personal growth and holistic healing

Key Elements

Daily Prana Yoga sessions with asanas, pranayama, and energy work
Guided meditations and emotional release sessions
Yoga experiences by the white sands of Skåne or at a magical lake

3 Benefits of Prana Yoga

Through consistent yoga and pranayama practices, your body energy is restored, enhancing vitality, strength, and overall well-being.

Mindful breathing and meditation techniques reduce stress, promote mental clarity, and support emotional balance.

Reconnect with your inner energy, restore balance, and gain insight into your personal growth and life purpose.

Emotional healing is the gentle art of letting go, where the heart finds freedom and the soul discovers peace.

Life Transforming Methods

Release stuck emotions and energy

3 Methods to Heal all layers of your body

During your retreat we offer prana healing techniques that help to release stuck emotions and balance your prana (optional). These pranic healing techniques will increase energy, clarity, and wellbeing at all levels of your body. You can choose between:

1. Emotional
Release

Destroy past emotions
Visualize the new radiant you
Create a new life story

2. Rebirthing
via Breath

Deep relaxation
Deep rebirthing breathwork
Release on central points of the nadis

3. Deep Trance
Yoga Nidra

Full body scan relaxation
Fly on an individual journey
Deep trance visualization & healing

Retreat schedule

Rest, renew and Revitalize with Prana Yoga

Your daily program combines pranayama, energizing asanas, and subtle awareness practices that activate prana (life force) throughout the body. This retreat is designed to purify the mind, reset the nervous system, and help you feel energized from the inside out. This opens a space for natural transformation, without force.

We adjust the program and healing sessions together. If you are looking to awaken through the energy of love, you might want to check our Kundalini Tantra Yoga Retreat. A normal day on the Prana Yoga Retreat day might look something like this:

Your Daily Schedule

Daily Retreat Schedule

The morning session is a 2-hour Prana Yoga practice designed to awaken your energy body, calm your mind, and open the flow of life energy. Sessions may include: pranayama, sun salutations, asanas, Tibetan Rites and guided meditations. The program is adapted to your needs and wishes.

A nourishing brunch with homemade bread or healthy pancakes, coconut & cacao, fresh fruits, yogurt with fruit compote, chia pudding, fresh orange juice, tea and coffee. We adjust according to your diet and needs (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free).

An individual session to release stuck emotions and limiting patterns, so you can create the kind of life you truly wish for yourself.

Bike or trek on rural paths, journal, enjoy the jacuzzi, or rest in the tree platform looking into the crown of the old oak. During a 6-day retreat, we include 2 excursions to a silent lake, a Swedish stone henge, or a beach trek.

Enjoy a wholesome vegetarian or vegan dinner. Sattvic, balanced, calming and digestion-friendly. We cater to dietary needs and preferences.

Soft candlelight and inspiring conversations about non-violent communication, yoga philosophy and conscious relationships.

Ask Winnie: what is Prana Yoga

Learn about Prana,Yoga and energy

Why do a Prana Yoga Retreat?

How does Prana Yoga Work?

Ever done yoga while feeling off — and somehow felt better after?

That’s not a coincidence. Yoga works with your life force energy, your prana, and when prana flows better, all layers of your being improve.

Prana Yoga works faster because it explicitly focusses on healing all layers of your body — the physical, emotional, energetic, mental, and spiritual levels of your being (koshas).

A Prana Yoga Retreat supports this healing with deep rest, renewal, and connection — set in the natural beauty of Skåne.

Who is Prana Yoga For?

Individuals seeking deep relaxation and renewal
Those wanting to detox body, mind, and soul
People open to personal growth and holistic healing

Key Elements

Daily Prana Yoga sessions with asanas, pranayama, and energy work
Guided meditations and emotional release sessions
Yoga experiences by the white sands of Skåne or at a magical lake

3 Benefits of Prana Yoga

Through consistent yoga and pranayama practices, your body energy is restored, enhancing vitality, strength, and overall well-being.

Mindful breathing and meditation techniques reduce stress, promote mental clarity, and support emotional balance.

Reconnect with your inner energy, restore balance, and gain insight into your personal growth and life purpose.

What is Prana?

What is Prana?

Explore the key aspects of this vital life force energy and how it flows through body, mind, and spirit.

Meaning of Prana

Prana is the Sanskrit term for “life force” or "vital energy". It is the subtle energy runs through our bodies and controls our emotional, mental, and physical health.

Role in the Body

Prana flows through energy channels called nadis and governs your vital functions such as breath, circulation, metabolism, immunity and wellbeing. It gives life, vitality and awareness.

Connection to Breath

Conscious breathing is the primary method to influence and harmonize prana. This is why pranayama (breathwork) is central to original yoga techniques and practices.

Levels of Prana

Yogic philosophy describes five main types of prana, each regulating different aspects of life, from movement and digestion to expression and renewal.

Spiritual Perspective

When your prana is balanced you will experience empathy, love, and higher spiritual awareness. Blocked or unbalanced prana can cause stress, fatigue, anxiety and disconnection.

What is Prana Yoga?

What is Prana Yoga?

Explore the key aspects of this practice and how it supports mind, body, and spirit.

Goal

Improve physical, emotional, and mental well-being, and support spiritual growth by harnessing life force energy.

Core Techniques

Combines breathing techniques, meditation, and physical postures to cleanse and balance the body's energy centers (chakras).

Energy Focus

Highlights the connection between mind, body, and spirit, aiming to harmonize and manage the flow of prana (vital life force energy).

Benefits

Promotes inner peace, balance, vitality, and overall harmony, helping practitioners reconnect with themselves.

What are Prana Yoga Practices?

Balancing Prana Through Practice

Explore how different yogic practices balance and vitalize the flow of prana across body, mind, and spirit.

Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar)

A dynamic sequence that activates and circulates prana throughout the body. It harmonizes breath and movement, strengthens the nervous system, and balances solar (active) and lunar (receptive) energies.

Asanas

Physical postures that open the energy channels and release stuk energy. Steady, mindful asana practice increase breath awareness and activates the pranic flow. It builds stability, strenth and resilience.

Pranayamas

Breath control techniques regulate the movement of prana directly. They balance the energy centers, and restore equilibrium between body, mind and spirit.

Meditations and Visualizations

Through stillness and inner focus, meditation refines the vibration of prana. Visualization techniques help guide pranic energy toward healing, transformation, and expansion of consciousness.

Yoga Nidra

The deep relaxation of Yoga Nidra allows prana to redistribute and restore the system naturally. It releases mental and energetic blockages, supporting renewal at every level of beinf (Koshas).

Tibetan Rites of Tül Khor

An ancient series of dynamic movements and breath techniques that awaken dormant energy and balance the five pranas. These rites rejuvenate the body, strengthen emotional resilience, and promote inner luminosity.

What are Pranayamas?

What Are Pranayamas?

Discover how the ancient art of conscious breathing harmonizes energy, calms the mind, and creates the foundation for inner transformation.

Meaning of Pranayama

The Sanskrit word Pranayama combines prana (life force) and ayama (to expand or regulate). It refers to practices that control and direct the flow of life energy through the rhythm of breath, balancing body, mind, and spirit.

Purpose and Effect

Pranayamas help create a state where you feel both energized and grounded at the same time — the ideal inner condition for manifesting the life you want. By combining calming and activating breaths, the nervous system finds harmony, allowing clarity, focus, and vitality to emerge naturally.

Types of Pranayamas

Traditional practices include Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) for balance, Kapalabhati (skull-shining breath) for purification, and Bhramari (humming bee breath) for calming the mind and emotions. Each type refines prana in a unique way, supporting physical vitality and spiritual expansion.

The Role of Kumbhaka

Kumbhaka, or breath retention, is the heart of Pranayama. It is the still point between inhalation and exhalation — where the mind becomes quiet and prana gathers inward. In this moment of suspension, where energy is absorbed, purified, and redirected through the subtle channels (nadis). It opens up for deeper states of meditation and inner stillness. Kumbhaka transforms breathing into a spiritual practice by shifting awareness from the external breath to the inner space of consciousness.

Difference from Breathwork

Modern breathwork focuses mainly on the physical aspects of the body through active breathing patterns. Pranayama works on all layers of being — physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual. It refines awareness, awakens subtle energy, and prepares the mind for meditation and higher states of consciousness.

Spiritual Dimension

Through the control of breath, the yogi gains control over prana — and through prana, mastery of the mind. Regular practice awakens inner stillness, expands perception, and deepens the connection with the Self.

Conditions & Prevention

Conditions Prana Yoga and Yoga Therapy Helps to Prevent and Alleviate

Prana Yoga / Yoga Therapy restores flow and harmony across body, mind, and heart — naturally preventing and easing many modern imbalances.

Heartbreak & Emotional Turbulence

Prana Yoga opens the heart and calms the nervous system, helping practitioners let go of past relationships and emotional pain. Breath and gentle movement guide energy out of stagnation, inviting healing and emotional balance.

Bad Moods, Anxiety & Depression

Pranayamas, conscious breath, and grounding postures regulate the autonomic nervous system and improve brain chemistry. They ease anxiety, uplift low moods, and promote a sense of inner peace and optimism.

Physical Tension and Pain

Conscious stretching and mindful breathing open the body’s muscles, microfascia, and joints, and restores healthy blood flow. Releasing physical tightness helps relieve chronic pain and natural freedom of movement.

Poor Metabolism

Digestive breathing and twisting postures awaken the samana vayu — the energy governing digestion and assimilation. This helps improve metabolism, nutrient absorption, and energy balance throughout the body.

Unbalanced Blood Pressure

Deep breathing, relaxation and yoga nidra stabilize heart rate and circulation. They calm hyper tension and help the cardiovascular system return to its natural state.

Koshas & Pranic Healing

Prana and Your Koshas

Discover how balanced or imbalanced prana influences the five layers of your being — from the physical to the spiritual.

Physical Layer (Annamaya Kosha)

Balanced Prana: The body feels vital, strong, and energized. Organs function smoothly, immunity is high, and healing is natural.
Imbalanced Prana: Fatigue, tension, poor circulation, or physical discomfort. The body feels heavy or depleted of energy.

Energetic Layer (Pranamaya Kosha)

Balanced Prana: Energy flows freely through the nadis, supporting clarity, vitality, and inner harmony.
Imbalanced Prana: Blockages or stagnation in energy flow cause restlessness, shallow breathing, or emotional instability.

Mental Layer (Manomaya Kosha)

Balanced Prana: The mind feels calm, focused, and emotionally stable. Thoughts are clear and positive.
Imbalanced Prana: Anxiety, distraction, overthinking, and emotional turbulence. The mind feels scattered or tired.

Intellectual Layer (Vijnanamaya Kosha)

Balanced Prana: Intuition, discernment, and inner wisdom are strong. Decisions come with clarity and confidence.
Imbalanced Prana: Confusion, lack of purpose, or disconnection from intuition. Difficulty seeing truth clearly.

Spiritual Layer (Anandamaya Kosha)

Balanced Prana: Deep peace, joy, and unity with life. Meditation feels natural and fulfilling.
Imbalanced Prana: Spiritual dullness or disconnection. Difficulty accessing stillness or a sense of inner bliss.

Prana & Brain Chemistry

Prana Yoga and Brain Chemistry

Discover how Prana Yoga balances your inner energy and stimulates key brain chemicals that support focus, grounding, and love.

Regulation of the Nervous System

Prana Yoga harmonizes the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems through breath and awareness. This balance reduces stress hormones like cortisol and activates the body’s natural relaxation response. It enhances calmness, focus and emotional stability.

Focus and Clarity

Deep breathing and mindful asana practice increase oxygen supply and improve the function of the prefrontal cortex — the area of the brain responsible for attention and decision-making. This enhances the production of dopamine, promoting motivation, clarity, and joyful concentration.

Emotional Balance

By calming the mind through breath and gentle movement, Prana Yoga raises levels of serotonin and GABA — neurotransmitters linked to emotional stability and inner peace. This biochemical balance supports resilience and reduces stress and anxiety.

Feeling of Connection and Love

When the body is balanced and the nervous system calm, the heart naturally opens. Practices that include deep rhythmic breathing and meditation stimulate oxytocin — the “bonding hormone” associated with empathy, trust, and love. In Prana Yoga, love is not only an emotion but a state of alignment where energy flows freely and naturally.

Integration and Harmony

Over time, regular practice rewires the brain’s stress and reward pathways, promoting harmony between body chemistry and subtle energy. This integrated balance allows practitioners to stay centered, clear-minded, and open-hearted in daily life.

Kundalini vs Prana Yoga?

Comparing Kundalini Yoga and Prana Yoga

Understand the key differences between these two powerful yoga practices.

Aspect

Kundalini Yoga

Prana Yoga

Primary Goal

Activate and awaken chakra energy, supporting spiritual growth and consciousness expansion.

Restore and balance life force energy (prana) for overall physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual well-being.

Core Techniques

Breath control (pranayama), kriyas, dynamic postures, chanting, meditation for energy activation.

Mindful breathing, gentle asanas, energy awareness exercises, relaxation, and restorative practices.

Energy Focus

Awakens and balances kundalini energy, activates chakras and balances subtle energy channels.

Balances the flow of prana throughout the body, harmonizing energy for vitality and inner calm.

Ideal For

Those seeking deep spiritual awakening, personal transformation, and heightened awareness.

Anyone wanting to rejuvenate, reduce stress, heal, and reconnect with their vital life force.

Learn more about Kundalini Yoga or Prana Yoga.

Kundalini vs Prana Yoga Retreat?

Comparing Kundalini and Prana Yoga Retreat

Explore how these two retreats work on different levels of energy and transformation.

Aspect

Kundalini Retreat

Prana Retreat

Primary Goal

Activate, integrate and awaken chakra energy through Kundalini Kriya kriyas

Restore and balance life force energy (prana) for overall well-being

Core Practices

Chakra awakening yoga, kundalini kriyas, deep meditation, connection with the five elements

Mindful breathing, gentle movement, restorative asanas, emotional release

Focus

Spiritual awakening and transformation through energy activation

Physical and emotional healing through breath and movement

Ideal For

Individuals seeking profound spiritual growth and inner awakening

Those looking to rejuvenate, heal, and reconnect with themselves

Learn more about the Kundalini Awakening Retreat.

Your Accommodation & Pricing

Heal with prana yoga in south sweden

Heal yourself with yoga and wellness at Yogi Living. We are a heart-centred yoga centre in rural countryside Skåne (South Sweden). Our place is personal, warm, and full of charm; everything that a five-star hotel is not.

We prioritize our clients and only hosts 1 – 4 people at a time. If you are looking for a romantic stay for two visit our couple’s retreat for two.

You will stay in our fruit tree garden, surrounded by open fields, fresh air, and vibrant village life.

This retreat is open all year around, but book quickly to get your favourite spot !

all inclusive price

Master Bedroom

Light room with yogi decor and direct access to the terrace.

4-days:
6-days:

877 €
1,177 €

Second Bedroom

Cozy room with a double bed and art on the walls.

4-days:
6-days:

777 €
977 €

Boho Caravan

Beautifully decorated “Love Shack” with secluded terrace.

4-days:
6-days:

577 €
897 €

Important note:

We give 20 percent discount to early birds (3 months in advance) and friend coming together.

Book the entire guesthouse exclusively for 300 euros extra.

To make your journey towards deeper awareness smooth from the outset, we offer pickup from Copenhagen and Malmö airport.

Free Parking

Free WiFi

Kitchen

Washer

Shower

Hot Tub

BBQ

Non Smoking

Let's Talk

we would love to hear from you!

Book a discovery call with Winnie to see if our yoga retreats are a good fit for you.
Email us anytime. We’re happy to get back to you as soon as we can.

Ask Winnie Practical Questions

Information About Our Retreats

Do I need yoga experience?

Not at all. Yoga classes are optional and tailored to individual needs, without the complicated postures you may see online.

Are classes held in English?

Yogi Living Retreat Center resident yoga teacher Winnie Winnetu speaks English, Swedish, Danish, French and German so don’t worry if you cannot speak Swedish!

How do I get to Yogi Living Retreat Center?

Yogi Living Retreat Center is located in Skåne, South Sweden close to the vibrant city of Malmö. The closest international airports are Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup (75 km) and Malmö airport, Sturup (30 km) with good rail connections to Malmö and on to Trelleborg (our closest town). You can also come by car through Germany and take the ferry from Rostock to Trelleborg. There are 3 sailings (6 hours duration) per day.

We can pick you up by car from Malmö (10 min from Copenhagen airport in train), Trelleborg, Ystad or Malmö Airport, but please ask for this in advance.

What is the local area like?

The surrounding countryside is picture-postcard Sweden. There are many small picturesque villages and a mixture of open farmland, woodland, and lakes. The wonderful coastline of the Swedish Riviera is only 5km away. When the weather allows we can arrange an excursion to places like the Ales Stones (the “Swedish Stonehenge”) and local castles and silent lakes.

You can also hang out in the garden where we have a treehouse meditation platform and a jacuzzi. There is a small ICA supermarket 5 minutes walk from the ashram.

Can we call you?

You can send a message through the website here.
You are also welcome to contact me directly by phone (+46) 730-702785.