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...
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...
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...
„Hard-core“ Ashtangis normally are practicing their yoga style 6 times per week, ideally in the morning. About every second week they have one additional day off: traditionally practitioners with a daily practice should not do their practice on new moon and on full...
Let’s start off with another one my favourite stories about the topic of “truth”: The devil went on a walk with a friend. In front of them - at a distance - walked a man, whom they could only see from the backside. Suddenly, he bent down, picked something up and...
Already last month, I was writing about Socrates - the wisest man in Greece (interestingly enough, the Oracle did not mention women). Socrates is also seen as the source for an approach to conversations - and to silence -, which is very useful if regularly applied...
Here comes one of my favourite stories: One day a businessman came to the Oracle of Delphi, looking for advice in important matters. The actual matter at hand is not known, but it is unlikely that he was on a spiritual quest but rather had questions about business...
In prior blogs I drew your attention to the subject of the s p a c e - especially to the fact that the space provides the limitations to your will. The "big will" Today, I do not want to discuss the space, but rather the ingredient that you yourself contribute to...
There are numerous translations of the term “yoga”. In the introduction to her book Yogāvatāraṇam, Zoë Slatoff (my Sanskrit teacher) mentions that one of the most common Sanskrit dictionaries (Apte) shows 80 different translations, starting with “unite” ( the most...
There is a nice saying in English: “Where there is a will, there is a way.”. Yes, it is nice, but it is not correct, at least not always. The will is only one of the elements decisive for success – your intention, that which would you like to express, the movement...
„Nobody is blogging anymore” was my 18-year-old nephew’s comment, when I asked him whether he could help me start a blog for “Ashtanga Yoga Plus” simultaneously with the relaunch of my website. Instagram, Twitter, maybe still Facebook, even though that is also out of...
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