October 9th-11th
Smíchov studio
Inverted State of Mind:
A Weekend with Miles Mortensen
Join Miles Mortensen for a weekend full of inversions, strength, mobility, backbends, and playful exploration.
Friday Oct 9th
Inverted State of Mind: A Vinyasa Masterclass: 18:30-20:30
Saturday Oct 10th
The Inverted State - Handstands: 9:00-11:30
Solar Awakening - The Creation and Art of Backbends: 13:30-16:00
Sunday Oct 11th
The Art of Compression - Learning How to Take Flight: 9:00-11:30
Path to Pincha: 13:30-16:00
We are beyond excited to welcome Miles Mortensen for a weekend dedicated to strength, curiosity, and joy of movement.
Miles is an international yoga teacher known for his creative approach to practice, blending Ashtanga-Vinyasa and Rocket with hand balancing, mobility, flexibility, and strength work. His teaching invites students to move beyond familiar patterns, build trust in their bodies, and find out what becomes possible when discipline meets exploration.
Across five special sessions, Miles will guide you through dynamic vinyasa, handstands, backbends, compression work, and the path to Pincha — offering clear tools, progressive techniques, and space to refine, grow, and turn your perspective upside down.
Inverted State of Mind: A Vinyasa Masterclass,
Friday, Oct 9th 18:30-20:30
Inverted State of Mind is an invitation to embrace the unexpected, to step beyond familiar patterns, and to explore the possibilities of your practice with curiosity and creativity.
The practice begins with a dynamic warm-up, incorporating active stretching and strengthening to prepare your body for the journey ahead. Moving through foundational sun salutations, you’ll build a cohesive flow that evolves into creative sequences, seamlessly leading toward peak postures or a central theme. Expect to explore innovative transitions, playful variations of traditional poses, and opportunities to test your limits while staying rooted in intention and awareness.
Miles’ teaching reflects his deep curiosity for how diverse movement practices can enrich yoga. Drawing from the structure of Ashtanga and Rocket Vinyasa, and inspired by his love for hand balancing, mobility, and strength training, he creates a practice that blends discipline with exploration. This unique approach offers students a chance to not only deepen their practice but to reimagine what’s possible for their bodies and minds.
Investment /
Inverted State of Mind: A Vinyasa Masterclass: 800 CZK
Full weekend: 6,000 CZK
The Inverted State - Handstands,
Saturday, Oct 10th 9:00-11:30
In this workshop, Miles will teach you the fundamentals and basics of handstands, helping you to build a firm foundation and understanding of the art of hand balancing that is both safe and effective in helping you build and progress your handstand practice.
You will go through the technical groundwork needed for mastering handstands, gaining insight into the proper alignment principles for a straight-line handstand. You’ll work with different balancing, alignment, and conditioning exercises and learn how to use the wall effectively rather than it becoming a clutch.
This workshop is for beginner and intermediate students who can hold a
20-second handstand against the wall. For beginners, it’s a chance to go deeper into your handstand practice and walk away knowing to practice confidently. For the more intermediate, it’s an opportunity to refine the basics and improve control in the upside down.
Investment /
The Inverted State - Handstands Workshop: 1,500 CZK
Full weekend: 6,000 CZK
Solar Awakening - The Creation and Art of Backbends,
Saturday, Oct 10th 13:30-16:00
This workshop is all about creating space in your backbends, building both strength and openness within them that is geared towards stability and pain-free.
Here, Miles shares his knowledge accumulated from both his own exploration and research as well as that which he has learnt working with flexibility and contortion coaches. You will learn how to position and move your spine and the contributing joints correctly to enhance basic positions as well as work towards more advanced ones, the anatomy of backbends to which muscles need to be engaged and lengthened, and specific techniques and exercises to create and a support a backbend practice.
The workshop is catered to support a variety of levels except complete beginners. It is important to note that the ability to perform deep backbends is not a prerequisite but we do recommend having a comfortable wheel pose.
Investment /
Solar Awakening Workshop: 1,500 CZK
Full weekend: 6,000 CZK
The Art of Compression - Learning How to Take Flight,
Sunday, Oct 11th 9:00-11:30
This workshop will piece together the elements of how to create lightness and ease in your practice, understanding how to jump forward, back, and through to seated.
During the workshop, you'll gain insights into the anatomy of compression and its connection to the energetic aspects of yoga practice through bandhas. We will employ various training techniques and exercises to cultivate the strength and flexibility required for compression, as well as how to integrate this skill into your practice and even structure dedicated sessions for it.
This workshop is designed for practitioners of all levels, excluding absolute beginners.
Investment /
The Art of Compression Workshop: 1,500 CZK
Full weekend: 6,000 CZK
Path to Pincha,
Sunday, Oct 11th 13:30-16:00
In this workshop, Miles will guide you through the foundations of Pincha Mayurasana (forearm stand), giving you the tools to approach this powerful inversion with more confidence, clarity, and control.
You’ll explore how to create a strong and stable base through your shoulders and core, understand the alignment needed for balance, and work through common challenges like collapsing shoulders, over-arching backs, or the fear of tipping over. You’ll learn how to build the strength and mobility Pincha requires—and how to use the wall and props as progressive tools, not as crutches.
This workshop is for practitioners who are beginning to explore Pincha or looking to refine and deepen their practice. Whether you’ve just started kicking up or you’ve been stuck at the wall for months, you’ll walk away with a clear roadmap for progress, stronger foundations, and a renewed sense of possibility in your inversion practice.
Investment /
Path to Pincha Workshop: 1,500 CZK
Full weekend: 6,000 CZK
Full weekend staff entrance: 5,500 CZK
Meet Miles
Miles Mortensen is an international yoga teacher known for his creative, intelligent, and movement-driven approach to practice. His teaching blends the structure of Ashtanga-Vinyasa and Rocket with hand balancing, mobility, flexibility, backbending, and strength work, creating a practice that is both technically precise and full of exploration.
With a deep curiosity for how different movement disciplines can support and expand the yoga practice, Miles guides students toward greater awareness, confidence, and control in their bodies. His classes are challenging yet accessible, encouraging students to move beyond familiar patterns, refine their technique, and discover new possibilities through discipline, play, and curiosity.
