EMBODIMENT OF SPIRIT

Nøsen Yoga og Fjellhotell, Røn

If you wish to be picked up at a train station, you can book the service when booking the retreat. The price is 250 NOK from Fagernes, and 350 NOK from Gol. One way per person. 

Nøsen Yoga og Fjellhotell is a mountain retreat center in the heart of Valdres, Norway, surrounded by breathtaking nature and peaceful hiking trails. They host yoga retreats, workshops, and events year-round, offering guests a chance to slow down, connect with themselves, and enjoy nourishing vegetarian meals in a warm and welcoming community.

Cost & Registration

RETREAT COST:

• 7200 NOK / ~608 EUR in shared 6 beds dorm
• 7500 NOK / ~633 EUR in shared 3-4 bed room
• 7800 NOK / ~658 EUR in shared 2 bed room
• 9450 NOK / ~797 EUR in single room with own bathroom
• 9450 NOK / ~797 EUR in double bed room (shared bathroom)
• 10 050 NOK / ~848 EUR in double bed room with own bathroom
• There are also cabins available. You see all available accommodation options at Nøsen's booking system.

The retreat cost includes teaching, materials, accommodation and food.

Registration for the retreat takes place through Nøsen Yoga website. 

You can choose to participate only on the retreat, or take the retreat as a part of a 25-hour pranayama certification.

BREATHING UNLIMITED / YACEP certification course:

• 1000 NOK / ~84 EUR in addition 
• EARLY BIRD until 28.02.2026: no certification fee - certification and online material is included in the retreat cost

If you wish to take the whole 25-hour pranayama certification, after signing up for the retreat, you have to register for the certification part HERE.

The certification course gives you access to preparatory online materials, pre-recorded lectures and practices on September 1st, 2026. 

Completion of the online materials and the retreat program will entitle you to a 25-hour certificate by Breathing Unlimited (YACEP course). In order to complete the certification, all theory and practice sessions at the retreat are mandatory. In addition, you need to deliver a 1-2 page reflection paper of a topic included in the retreat program.

When you sign up for the certification program, Sanni will send you an additional invoice of 1000 NOK (for registrations after 01.03.2026).

Registration closes on September 1, 2026, for the Breathing Unlimited / YACEP certification course. Retreat sign-up is open as long as there is room. Maximum limit is 16 participants.

Nøsen Yoga has their own cancellation terms. Check them when registering for the retreat. Note that it is not possible to cancel the Breathing Unlimited / YACEP certification course after September 1, 2026 due to the online material access. If you register later than September 1, 2026 for the certification course, the registration is binding and payments made are non-refundable.

What To Bring & Other Useful Information

• Comfortable clothes to move in indoors and outdoors
• Water bottle
• Notebook and pen for notes and journaling

All practices can be modified to your needs. Note that the retreat includes movement as well as sitting and resting in lying down position. There are yoga mats and other equipment at Nøsen Yoga.

The retreat will be taught in English. Everything can be clarified in Norwegian or Finnish.

If you have any questions, please email to sanni(a)mindgrit.no

Lecture 1: Introduction to Respiratory Philosophy. Length: 1,5-2 hours

How could our everyday life be transformed if the most important questions for us would be: What is breathing? Who is breathing? When is breathing? Where is breathing? How is breathing? Why is breathing? Respiratory philosophy is deeply inspired by these questions that our Western tradition has almost universally forgotten.

Respiratory philosophy, or philosophy of breathing, is a new way of thinking, loving and living. It is a way of doing philosophy which rethinks, re-examines and re-experiences the major questions of life and philosophy anew within the experiential atmosphere of breathing. It has three important and fundamental dimensions: 

1) Respiratory philosophy understands breathing as a highly important philosophical theme. As a philosophical theme we can say that breathing has, for example, ontological, ethical, esthetic, poetic and spiritual dimensions.

2) Respiratory philosophy creates a new experiential/phenomenological concept of breathing that is more primordial than our scientific concept of breathing as gas exchange and as cellular respiration. It understands breathing, in the first place, as a fundamental way of being-in-the-world, as a root of everyday life and as a relation to the immense atmosphere of air. 

3) Respiratory philosophy challenges all traditional concepts of philosophy by transforming all questions of philosophy into respiratory questions of philosophy. This means, for example, that questions concerning truth, good life, spiritual growth, love, values, knowledge, mind-body relation and dialogue with others are deeply interrelated with our experience of breathing. These new relations become possible, because breathing is the art of mediating and mixing. Respiratory philosophy understands that all questions are immersed within the respiratory atmosphere of air.

The guiding motto of respiratory philosophy could be taken from Nobel prize winner Elias Canetti who wrote: “It is not enough to think, one also has to breathe. Dangerous are thinkers who have not breathed enough.” 

The themes of this lecture are based on my book Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being (Routledge, 2023) and anthology Atmospheres of Breathing (SUNY Press, 2018) that I coedited.

Lecture 2: Respiratory Ethics, Respiratory Poetics and Respiratory Religion of the Body, the Senses and the Spirit. Length: 1,5-2 hours

In this second lecture, we will investigate within the atmosphere of respiratory philosophy how body, senses and spirit are all deeply intertwined and mixed with breathing and the immense atmosphere of air and how we could develop with these breath- and air-relations a new understanding of ethics, poetics and religion.

Thus, we could begin to speak about respiratory ethics, respiratory poetics and respiratory religion. The themes of respiratory ethics include, for example, how skillfully we cultivate within the atmosphere of breathing the questions concerning choices, freedom, responsibility, goodness, peace and hospitality. Respiratory poetics studies based on experiential breathing body how questions of creativity, sensuality, aesthetics and imagination could be interpreted in a new way. Respiratory religion examines how, for example, questions of faith, trust, spirituality, worship, meditation and divinity could be understood as dimensions of the breathing body and aerial atmosphere.

The lecture is based on the phenomenological concept of the lived body which is very different compared to how the sciences explain the body and the mind. It is the phenomenological experience of the respiratory body which gives us our first access to the world, others, ourselves as well as our experience of space and time and it is by cultivating our breath that we can begin to experience the true wonders of respiratory hospitality, aerial freedom, respiratory sensitivity, aerial imagination, respiratory faith and divinity that breathes. 

The themes of this lecture are inspired, for example, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological concept of the lived body, Gaston Bachelard’s elemental poetics of air, Luce Irigaray’s idea of cultivation of breathing, Emanuel Coccia's metaphysics of respiratory mixture, the Buddha’s mindfulness of breathing and the respiratory interpretation of Jesus’s Holy Spirit.

Experiential Workshop: Deep Dive into the Open Atmosphere of Breath and Air. Length: 1,5-2 hours

In this workshop, we will study experientially how to understand the possibilities of breathing in relation to the body, senses, gestures, movements, others, things and world. It is the breath that mediates and mixes all of these relations. This mediation becomes possible because breathing is, in the first place, openness and this openness is respiratory openness to the immense and invisible atmosphere of open air. Mediation of these other relations always take place within this respiratory and aerial openness.

We will do various kinds of breathing and somatic exercises to become experientially attentive and mindful of this open atmosphere surrounding and penetrating us as well as how our senses and gestures and our relations to things and others can appear to us within this openness of breath and air.

During this workshop, we will learn to wonder and love this adventurous and mysterious invisible open atmosphere which we tend to forget and which we take for granted as our focus is normally directed toward visible things and other people. This workshop can help us to cultivate and incarnate at the practical and experiential level what could be the possibilities of respiratory philosophy, respiratory ethics, respiratory poetics and respiratory religion in one’s own life.