The yoga style that I have been practicing for 13 years and teaching for 11 is nowadays known worldwide as Ashtanga Yoga. I fell in love with this style from the very start. Initially, the name was not important to me. However, I later started to question why this...
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„Yogāvatāraṇam – The translation of Yoga” by Zoë Slatoff (book review)
Usually, when I take a picture of a book that I am reviewing, I try to use a pristine version of the book whenever possible. But, as you can see, in this case, it is different. The book came to my attention through an advertisement on http://www.ashtanga.com/...
What does Ashtanga Yoga mean – Nomen est omen or rather a misnomer?
The yoga style that I have been practicing for 13 years and teaching for 11 is nowadays known worldwide as Ashtanga Yoga. I fell in love with this style from the very start. Initially, the name was not important to me. However, I later started to question why this...
Breath – The new science of a lost art (James Nestor)
The fact how little attention people pay to how they breathe in their daily lives repeatedly surprises me. So, it was a surprise in the other direction when a book with the title “Breath“ made it onto the bestseller lists of the Sunday Times, the New York Times, and...
The end of the blog-down – and as a concrete subject the question concerning the “correct form of an āsana“
More than half a year has gone by since my last blog. At that time, Germany was still in the middle of a lockdown. Due to my online teaching, I did not have more time available than "normally" (i.e., before Corona). Somehow, though, I must have imagined that I would...
Sanskrit is a form of yoga – for the mind
This heading might surprise you - what does yoga have to do with Sanskrit? In the West yoga is often seen as training for the belly, legs, and butt. Sanskrit is the language in which the majority of the old Indian literature was composed, but these days, it is no...