AN (UN)EXPLORED PATH
Photography by Rowan Thornhill
Exhibition at Lokal Wipkingen
Rotbuchstrasse 66, 8037 Zürich
04.09 – 31.10.2025
VERNISSAGE THURSDAY 4th SEPTEMBER 2025 18:00
Ljus Studio’s own Rowan Thornhill is a professional photographer with a huge passion for exploring the globe. Originally from England, he studied commercial photography in Sweden and is now based in Zürich. He constantly seeks to capture the essential beauty of the people, places and moments he experiences on his travels, creating images that convey honesty and intrigue, while remaining timeless and aesthetically simple.
ASHTANGA YOGA WINTER RETREAT
with Carla Araos
3 Day Yoga Retreat in Osco, Leventina Valley, Ticino
Fri 30.01 – Sun 01.02.2026
Open Level
Everyone is welcome 🤍
Locanda del Viandante,
Strèda di Scamoi 17, 6763 Faido, Switzerland
Join Carla for a winter retreat in a small group of 8–12 people in Osco, Leventina Valley in Ticino, surrounded by mountains, forest, and silence.
We’ll be staying at Locanda del Viandante, a brand-new retreat venue in the heart of the Swiss Alps.
Whether you’re new or experienced, cultivating a beginner’s mind helps bring clarity, curiosity, and compassion to every step on the mat. Join this retreat and take back with you the timeless gift of yoga.
Spaces are limited so reserve your spot!
Please click on the more info below for full retreat information.
REST & RECONNECT:
A Restorative Yoga & Sound Bath Journey
with Carla & Yuki
Sun 14.09.25, 17:00 – 19:00
Open Level – Everyone is warmly welcome
Price: 69 CHF
This Sunday evening experience offers a journey inward, beginning with a gentle Restorative Yoga practice to ease the body and calm the nervous system. It continues with a soothing Sound Bath, using resonant tones to invite deep rest and inner balance. The session provides a peaceful space to transition from external busyness to inner stillness.
This Sunday, we gather in the quiet golden hour glow to rest, release, and return to ourselves.
The evening begins with a gentle Restorative Yoga practice, an invitation to soften and be held. Through long-held, fully supported postures and quiet stillness, the body is gently guided into a state of deep ease. The breath slows, the nervous system unwinds, and a quiet spaciousness begins to open, creating the perfect inner landscape to receive what follows.
Our journey then flows into a Sound Bath, where resonant tones from singing bowls create a spacious, meditative field of sound. This immersive experience invites deep rest, energetic balance, and inner reconnection, a chance to simply be, held in vibration and stillness.
There is a special calm to Sunday evenings, a gentle threshold between the fullness of life and the quiet of our inner world. This evening offers you that space: to step from tension into tenderness, from mind into heart, from noise into stillness.
No experience is needed. This is a space to simply be, wrapped in warmth, resonance, and deep restoration
YOGA FOR THE ANIMALS:
Charity class in benefit of Amigos de los Animales, Granada, Spain
with Carla Araos
Sun 28.09.25, 17:15 – 18:45
Open Level – Everyone is warmly welcome🤍
Price: 40 CHF*
All proceeds from this special class will be donated to AMIGOS DE LOS ANIMALES DE GRANADA, SPAIN. Thanks for the supporting the animals!
This class is an offering of both energy and rest, effort and surrender, all in support of a good cause.
This holistic yoga class integrates movement, breath, and focused attention to help you slow down and reconnect.
Open to all levels, the class provides an opportunity to stretch and realign your body, release physical tension, and soothe your nervous system, thereby supporting your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
The sequence focuses on areas where stress commonly accumulates, like the neck, shoulders, back, and hips, and includes options and modifications to meet your individual needs.
Breath awareness is woven throughout the practice, as it lies at the heart of yoga.
After the movement portion, you’ll be guided through a short meditation and a deeply restful relaxation.
You’ll leave feeling more at ease in your body and mind, restored, grounded, and ready to enjoy your evening.
Open to all levels. Everyone is warmly welcome.
All proceeds from this class will be donated to Amigos de los Animales de Granada.
This is a benefit class; you’re always welcome to donate more than the class fee at the studio. Thank you for supporting the animals!
*As this is a charity class, the class fee is not refundable.
108 SUN SALUTATIONS:
A Homage to the Sun
with Carla Araos
Sun 22.06.25, 10:15 – 13:15
Open Level (not suitable for complete beginners)
Price: 90 CHF
Let’s celebrate the summer solstice!
We invite you to join us for an energising, powerful, and inspiring ‘moving meditation’ as we flow together through 108 Sun Salutations. Our movement honours the sun, the solar spirit symbolising the infinite light of pure consciousness.
We invite you to look deep inside yourself for an intention. This is especially important during this practice, as it is in this intention that you will find the willpower and the desire to keep going.
Practising the 108 Sun Salutations requires not only tapas (discipline) but also Satya (honesty) and Ahimsa (non-violence). Practise mindfully, diligently, and intelligently. Pause if needed, and enjoy being grounded by your breath.
The number 108 has many symbolic meanings and is considered sacred and auspicious across many disciplines. In yoga, the number 108 refers to spiritual completion. Ancient yogis believed that we can be in harmony with the rhythms of nature by completing practices in rounds of this sacred number. It connects the body, mind, and universe, especially when there is a period of change, such as an equinox or solstice. As we gather energy through repetition, we can use it to start the season renewed and inspired.
This practice is an opportunity to re-energise and reignite your practice. Afterwards, we will finish with a relaxing and extended savasana.
This is an open-level event, but prior Sun Salutation experience is recommended.
ASHTANGA WORKSHOP: Unravelling the Primary Series (3 Parts)
with Carla Araos
Sun 02.03.25, 10:15 – 12:15
Sun 06.04.25, 10:15 – 12:15
Sun 18.05.25, 10:15 – 12:15
Open Level (but not suitable for yoga beginners)
79 CHF per class*
220 CHF for all 3 parts
In this workshop, we will look closely at a section (Half Primary) of the primary series or Yoga Chikizta, the most healing and therapeutic sequence of the Ashtanga yoga method.
You will begin the path of self-discovery, a long-term process that requires dedication, discipline, determination, trust, and patience. See below for more information about each part.
Sunday 2nd March 2025
Part 1: Samasthiti to Virabhadrasana & Finishing Sequence.
Sunday 6th April 2025
Part 2: Dandasana to Janu Sirsasana A.
Sunday 18th May 2025
Part 3: Unravelling the primary series Part 3: Janu sirsasana to Navasana.
Ashtanga is a method for everyone. It provides you with a structure, but you can work within this structure at your own pace, safely and intelligently practising with mindfulness and acceptance. Modifications can be done for different levels of experience or in case of injury, and there is always the option to skip certain poses if necessary, hence your practice is sustainable, long-lasting, and beneficial. It will take you to a place of great compassion and understanding toward yourself and others
We will look closely at the three elements of Tristana (breath, bandhas and drishti). These fundamental tools will transform your practice, cultivate presence, focus and stability, and make your asana practice a full mind and body experience that transcends from your mat into all aspects of life.
This workshop is for any curious student interested in learning from the beginning or continuing to learn the Ashtanga method. For those who want to start practising Ashtanga, it will provide a solid foundation. For those who have some experience with the practice, it will be an opportunity to clarify and deepen your understanding of this method.
This is an open-level workshop. It is open for those who have existing yoga experience but is not suitable for complete beginners to yoga.
*This is a 3-part workshop. You can book all 3 parts together or independently, but you should be familiar with the practice until the point where we left it in the previous part.
SUNDAY SPECIAL: Candlelight Yoga
with Carla Araos
Sunday 23.02.2025, 17:00 – 18:30
Ljus Studio, Nordstrasse 195, 8037 Zürich
Open Level
Price: 40 CHF
This class is an opportunity to honour the wintertime, a time of beautiful introspection when the evenings are longer and darker.
So many times, changing seasons are left unnoticed. Maybe it is because of the goal-oriented society we live in, but if we move with awareness even during the winter we can harvest the energy that resides there, in the space in between, and bring it with us to our destination. This destination could be a place, a day, an asana, etc.
We will move slowly through the practice. The breath and transitions between poses being the primary focus. If you have a busy mind, moving slowly will improve your mental focus and encourage you to stay in the moment.
This practice will help to calm and strengthen the nervous system and release stress. It will build and develop balance, strength, flexibility, and breathing capacity. The slow pace will allow you to calm your mind and get a better understanding of how the movement impacts your body and your surroundings.
It is meditation in motion; a method to go deeper within ourselves, cultivating wholesome mental states for the benefit of us and others.
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