17. september 2026 – 20. september 2026 Denmark
Yin yoga and calm on Læsø
YIN YOGA RETREAT on LÆSØ - FOR YOU WHO LONG FOR SLOWNESS, TIME, NATURE, CALM, TIME TO REFLECT, TIME FOR YOURSELF.
Yin yoga is practised entirely seated and lying down in poses that every body can join. We work with connective tissue, the nervous system, ligaments, tendons and the deep CALM in body and mind.
Give yourself the chance to slow riiight down and take a break from everyday life. We do it in the beautiful surroundings of Kattegat's pearl, LÆSØ. The island where you feel the calm settle into you the moment you step off the ferry. In the heart of the island near Byrum lies the four-winged Østergård Kultur BB, with wonderful, wonderful nature and plenty of room to breathe.
We do yoga in the venue's lovely communal room. If the weather allows, we can also use the large orangery overlooking the beautiful garden. Here you get the very best conditions for slowing right down. To recharge, relax, reflect, enjoy the silence and perhaps read a good book while your inner calm settles in.
A calm that goes far, far deeper than your ordinary everyday yoga practice. EVERYONE can join. You may already know the great benefit a yoga session gives you in both body and mind.
This is multiplied many times over when the body is showered with countless sessions of yin yoga, mindfulness, meditations and walks that open your senses, so that you turn inwards and move out of your head and deep into every cell of the body. After this extended weekend you can truly feel yourself again.
PLENTY OF YIN YOGA, MINDFULNESS, MEDITATION AND NATURE
Over four days you can indulge yourself with plenty of yoga, mindfulness and meditations as well as the unique nature. Limited number of places. First come, first served.
YIN YOGA
fewer aches and tensions
more mobility and freedom of movement
greater energy and joy
better night's sleep
We do slow YIN yoga where we work deep into the body.
We will come to feel ourselves - both in body and mind. We work with the balance between yin and yang. Long, deep stretches where we slow down and prepare ourselves for a new day. Long, deep stretches that stretch connective tissue, tendons and ligaments and strengthen the bones. When we stay in the poses for a long time, 2-5 minutes, the connective tissue becomes stronger and more fluid-filled.
At the same time the body slowly gives way. The nervous system receives signals that this is okay, and so you can move even deeper into a stretch. Space is created in the body for renewed energy and mobility. Small and large tensions are released. At the same time we practise becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable.
To BE with ourselves for a long time, to FEEL ourselves and the body. Something most of us are not at all used to. You become a more spacious person, both towards yourself and towards those around you. When you take part, you will find that you gain more calm in body and mind.
You reduce aches in the body and become better at listening to it, pausing and checking in - also in everyday life. You reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression and so on. When you take part, you will feel how the yoga affects the body. You ease aches, help hormonal imbalances, improve your night's sleep, reduce stress and so on.
NEW NEW NEW
Yin Pulsations are sprinkled throughout the yin yoga. Yin Pulsation is small, gentle movements performed while lying down. The movements create greater mobility and hydrated tissue. In addition you come into even greater contact with the body. You can quite simply feel yourself even more and even better when the Yin Pulsations are combined with the still-held yin yoga poses. Everyone can join. No prior experience is required.
MEDITATION
Meditation is a practice in which you are fully attentive and present. Typically with focus on, for example, the breath, a visualisation, things around you or the body. You find your way into a calm and stillness that has to be experienced. This cannot be described in words. It has to be tried.
Meditation helps you find calm and balance in everyday life, giving you a breathing space where you recharge with renewed energy, concentration and focus. The overarching theme of this retreat is to feel inwards, to feel our body - to feel the mind. To become aware of our thoughts, feelings and intuition. To find our way into a deep CALM in body and mind.
You can see more of our lovely venue here at Østergård Kultur B&B
If you would like to stay at Østergård Kultur B&B for a day or two more in connection with the retreat, we give a 10% discount
Subject to changes
Alle kan være med
Du bestemmer selv dit tempo, og programmet tilpasses holdet. Er du i tvivl om noget, så ring til os — så tager vi den sammen.
YIN YOGA RETREAT 17 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2025
THURSDAY
- Departure by ferry from Frederikshavn at 11.30 or 16.50 - crossing time 90 min. (note - SUBJECT TO THE SAILING SCHEDULE)
- Bus travel is FREE on Læsø. Bicycles can be borrowed FREE at Østergaard B&B.
- 13.00 - 19.00 Time for yourself on Læsø
- You can check in from 15.00 at Østergaard Kultur B&B
- 19.00 Welcome
- 19.30 Dinner
- 20.30 Evening meditation
- 21.00 Coffee, tea, fruit, iced water
FRIDAY
- 7.30 - 9.00 Yin Yoga
- 9.00 Breakfast buffet
- 10.15 Mindful Walk
- 12.30 Lunch
- After this, time for yourself. There is the chance to see Læsø's unique seaweed houses, visit Læsø saltworks, take a trip out across the Rønnerne with the Rønner bus - or use the beach and one of the many walks and much more.
- 16.30 - 18.30 Yin Yoga
- 19.00 Dinner
- 20.15 Evening meditation
- 20.45 Coffee, tea, fruit, water
SATURDAY
- 7.30 - 9.00 Yin Yoga
- 9.00 Breakfast buffet - then time for yourself
- After this, time for yourself. There is the chance to see Læsø's unique seaweed houses, visit Læsø saltworks, take a trip out across the Rønnerne with the Rønner bus, visit a yarn spinnery - or use the beach and one of the many walks and much more.
- 16.30 - 18.30 Yin Yoga
- 19.00 Gala dinner, coffee and tea
SUNDAY
- 7.30 - 9.30 Yin Yoga, rounding off
- 9.30 Breakfast buffet, departure
- Homeward journey by ferry at 11.20, or sightseeing and a later homeward journey.
(Programme subject to changes. Particularly regarding ferry times)
Programme
YIN YOGA RETREAT 17 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2025
THURSDAY
- Departure by ferry from Frederikshavn at 11.30 or 16.50 - crossing time 90 min. (note - SUBJECT TO THE SAILING SCHEDULE)
- Bus travel is FREE on Læsø. Bicycles can be borrowed FREE at Østergaard B&B.
- 13.00 - 19.00 Time for yourself on Læsø
- You can check in from 15.00 at Østergaard Kultur B&B
- 19.00 Welcome
- 19.30 Dinner
- 20.30 Evening meditation
- 21.00 Coffee, tea, fruit, iced water
FRIDAY
- 7.30 - 9.00 Yin Yoga
- 9.00 Breakfast buffet
- 10.15 Mindful Walk
- 12.30 Lunch
- After this, time for yourself. There is the chance to see Læsø's unique seaweed houses, visit Læsø saltworks, take a trip out across the Rønnerne with the Rønner bus - or use the beach and one of the many walks and much more.
- 16.30 - 18.30 Yin Yoga
- 19.00 Dinner
- 20.15 Evening meditation
- 20.45 Coffee, tea, fruit, water
SATURDAY
- 7.30 - 9.00 Yin Yoga
- 9.00 Breakfast buffet - then time for yourself
- After this, time for yourself. There is the chance to see Læsø's unique seaweed houses, visit Læsø saltworks, take a trip out across the Rønnerne with the Rønner bus, visit a yarn spinnery - or use the beach and one of the many walks and much more.
- 16.30 - 18.30 Yin Yoga
- 19.00 Gala dinner, coffee and tea
SUNDAY
- 7.30 - 9.30 Yin Yoga, rounding off
- 9.30 Breakfast buffet, departure
- Homeward journey by ferry at 11.20, or sightseeing and a later homeward journey.
(Programme subject to changes. Particularly regarding ferry times)
Beliggenhed & ophold
About the place where we hold the yoga retreat
Annas Højskole, which runs the yoga retreat, has invested in a large B&B - Østergaard KulturBB, which lies near Byrum in the middle of Læsø.
Læsø is also known as Kattegat's pearl and is the largest island in the Kattegat - even larger than Samsø. There is plenty of nature here - in fact nature makes up 70% of the island's total area. And Læsø dune plantation therefore lies close to us. You can walk from our place and 30 minutes later you are at the bathing lake in the middle of the dune plantation. There is a stillness and calm here that you have to search far and wide for. And there is of course the chance for a dip.
You can also drive 4 km to the south-west. Then you reach the very special natural area, the Rønnerne. Here too you often find that you have all of nature to yourself. For Læsø is the place in Denmark with the most square metres per inhabitant.
Læsø altogether has a unique nature and history - among other things, it is here you find the very special seaweed houses, and it is here that the world-famous Læsø salt is boiled. On Læsø there is also a beautiful and unique spa, partly built in a disused church - Læsø Kur. Læsø Kur is known for its salty waters - with surplus salt from Læsø Saltworks. As a participant on the retreat you get about a 10% discount on entry if you wish to visit the beautiful Læsø Kur in your own time.
In the middle of the island and close to everything lies the large, beautiful Østergård Kultur Bed & Breakfast a little outside Byrum. Here there are 12 lovely apartments with rooms in various sizes and numbers, there is a large communal room and a truly fantastic orangery, overlooking the park-like garden, which forms the most beautiful setting for our meals.
In the garden there is plenty of garden furniture and lovely sunny nooks, for Læsø is in fact the sunniest place in Denmark.
We also have several fire pits, and we light a fire when the mood calls for it.
In the evening when the sky is clear you will experience the wildest starry sky, because there is no light pollution on or near the island.
It is quite simply magical on Læsø!
You can read more about Østergård Kultur BB here: oestergaardkulturbb.dk
Meet your instructors
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
The programme planner and instructor is called Sanna Carlsen, born in 1968 and certified in Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga and Yin Pulsations.
She is the owner of the yoga studio YOGA by SANNA in Frederikshavn.
She has great experience teaching on Yoga Retreats, and has had several hundred participants along.
In the summer of 2023 a 100-hour Yin Pulsations course was added on top of her yin yoga training - she just can't help herself.
In 2024 she is assisting on that very same yin yoga training. In addition, for several years she has taught people affected by stress, anxiety and depression, where yoga, mindfulness and meditation are a large part of the tools used. Participants are helped to become more aware and present in everyday life.
She has herself meditated daily and practised yoga for several years, and it really got under her skin during a multi-year illness with stress, where many realisations and a major restructuring of her life were the result. With the loveliest tone of voice and her positive spirit, Sanna will guide you through the extended weekend.
SEE HERE WHAT OTHER PARTICIPANTS SAY ABOUT SANNA
Participants are helped to become more aware and present in everyday life. I have myself meditated daily and practised yoga for several years, and it really got under my skin during a multi-year illness with stress, where many realisations and a major restructuring of my life were the result. I have also created the yoga club DIT YOGA UNIVERS.
Here you are taught and we meet online live. At the same time you have access to a universe with over 160 videos of yoga, mindfulness and meditations. Posts on yoga philosophy, recipes, lifestyle tips and so on. I am also developing online yoga and stress programmes you can complete at home on your own
READ MORE ABOUT SANNA
https://yogabysanna.dk/mere/om/
SOME OF THE PARTICIPANTS SAY:
"A really good retreat. Good guided yoga. A good balance between yoga, meditation and time for yourself. Lovely to experience that the poses can be done in different ways. There is a lot of focus on listening to your own body - it is a good exercise, and good that it doesn't have to be done in a particular way (the poses are adapted to the individual body, ed.). I have gained a more spacious and open mind. During the course I had fewer and fewer distracting thoughts during yoga and meditation. I was more grateful." - Gitte
"I don't get enough yoga in everyday life, which is why I signed up. A stay also gives time for myself, calm and time with friends. It has been a fantastic programme with calm and immersion. Sanna is very calm, patient, attentive to differences and inclusive. Everyone can take part and no one feels ignorant or inexperienced. I experience calm and wellbeing, tenderness and am curious to learn more about the body. I would love to go again. // Laila Kastbjerg
"I can most strongly recommend a retreat with Sanna. She is good, helpful and makes sure there is plenty of room for individual needs. I experience an inner calm, but I think I just need a little distance from it to know what my outcome has been. YES, I would love to go again with Sanna. Sanna, you are one of the best instructors I have tried" - Tina Colvey
"I went to get immersion and focus on myself. It has been a fantastic experience. Sanna is skilled, considerate and has a lovely personality. She teaches very personally, with focus on each individual's body. I feel calm and am relaxed in head and body. Yes, I will go again. A fitting length - 4 days - for what I can manage." // Lis Jørgensen
Praktisk & pris
How to get to your folk high school course on Læsø:
There are several ways you can get to Læsø.
You can either take the car to Frederikshavn, from where you sail to Læsø. The trip takes 90 min - and takes place on a large ferry at a nice, calm pace, where you really slow down and get ready for the relaxed island tempo.
You can also take the train/bus to Frederikshavn and then board the ferry. When you are ashore you take the coach and get off 100 metres from us.
About 3 weeks before the course you receive an info email from the instructor. There is also a link to a group on Facebook. In the group you as a participant have the chance to offer other participants a lift - or you can look for a lift if you need one. Many have made use of this in the past.
Price includes
- Yin yoga, meditations, mindful walk
- 3 nights' accommodation including breakfast
- 1x lunch
- 2 x evening meals
- 1 x gala dinner with dessert
- Coffee, tea, fruit
- Other drinks are bought and paid for on site
- ALL yoga equipment is available - you are of course welcome to bring your own equipment if you prefer
- Bed linen and towels
- Bicycles for free use
Price excludes
- Transport to and from Læsø
- Transport around the island - it takes place in private cars or the island's free bus
- Drinks
- Læsø Kur or other entry fees
- Payment:
- On registration we ask for a deposit of kr. 1000,- The balance must be transferred 2 months before departure.
- In special cases it is possible to pay by Mastercard; please write on the registration if this is desired.
Billeder
What our guests say
“Tak for en fantastisk oplevelse, ikke mindst takket være Anna og dig. Du var en inspirerende rejseleder, der gjorde turen til meget mere end bare en pilgrimsvandring.”
“Skøn tur som puttes i rygsækken med fantastiske oplevelser, smukke fotos og den bedste kursusleder Michael Birkkjær Lauritsen. Elsker oplevelser med Annas Højskole.”
“Jeg har netop været på strikkehøjskole på Læsø ved Annette Danielsen. Uanset hvor hårdt jeg anstrenger mig, kan jeg simpelthen ikke finde noget negativt at sige. Annette Danielsen er en fuldstændig fantastisk inspirerende og forrygende formidler. Østergaard B&B er et skønt sted med lækre lejligheder, dejlig og velsmagende mad, og en meget sympatisk og underholdende vært. Vi mødte skønne og inspirerende fortællere i huset og på ture på Læsø. Vi startede dagene med morgensang sammen med Jens Christian, som fint fortalte lidt om de sange, vi sang. Dejlig start på nogle vidunderlige dage. Det har bare været helt igennem en skøn, pragtfuld og fantastisk uge. Føler mig meget beriget.”
Ofte stillede spørgsmål
Kan jeg rejse med, hvis jeg rejser alene?
Ja — rigtig mange af vores kursister rejser alene. Du bliver en del af fællesskabet fra første dag, og du kan vælge eget værelse, hvis du vil have ro omkring dig.
Hvor god en form skal jeg være i?
Alle kan være med! Programmet tilpasses holdet, og du bestemmer selv dit tempo. Er du i tvivl, så ring til os — så tager vi den sammen.
Hvordan foregår betalingen?
Du reserverer din plads med et depositum og modtager en faktura pr. e-mail. Restbeløbet betales senest 60 dage før afrejse — også via faktura og bankoverførsel.
Hvad hvis jeg bliver nødt til at aflyse?
Vores afbestillingsregler står i rejsereglerne for pakkerejser, og vi er medlem af Rejsegarantifonden (reg.nr. 3122). Kontakt os hurtigst muligt, hvis noget kommer i vejen — vi finder altid en løsning sammen.
Kan I tage hensyn til allergier og særlige behov?
Ja. Når du reserverer, spørger vi ind til kost, allergier og særlige behov, og vi giver besked videre til køkkenet og værterne på destinationen.
Er der dansktalende værter med på rejsen?
Ja, altid. Der er dansktalende kursusledere og værter med på alle vores ophold.
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