Yoga News 95 - 06/2015

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Yoga practice
Asana: Winter Relax
A calm sequence to immerse yourself in your own yin qualities: explore your "soft side" and enjoy a relaxing winter asana practice. By Barbra Noh.

Fascia yoga: new trend or always part of yoga?
An understandable and comprehensive introduction to the topic of fascia and its far-reaching significance for yoga practice. By Anna Trökes and Lilla N. Wuttich.

Meditation: The Brahmaviharas
The four highest mental states play an important role not only in Buddhism, but also in the Yoga Sutra. But how can we integrate them into our practice and our everyday lives? By Florian Palzinsky.

Asana: Sayanasana – From Appearance to Being
Balance is a question of practice, and Sayanasana is the ultimate challenge for the sense of balance. A photo series with Dr. Ronald Steiner.

The importance of the body on the spiritual path
When our mind is calm, our true nature can emerge. The body plays an important role in this. But if enlightenment takes place in the mind - why is the body important? By Angelika Doerne.

Chakras & Energies in Yoga Practice
Which energies flow in the various chakras, how they affect asana practice and what you can learn from physical resistance. By Robert Henderson.

Prana, the life-giving force
There are many ways to absorb and move prana. We present you with some exercises with which you can consciously "recharge". By Doris Iding.

Meditation through the ages
The expanded possibilities of a “New Yoga Will”: the way forward and its changed form of meditation – the light nature of thought as the key. By Erika Richter.

In God's image
The spiritual origins of humanity – how and why beings of light became humans. By Armin Risi.

Listen to your heart!
Christmas and the New Year with their special qualities a wonderful time to strengthen the connection to your own heart – e.g. with the help of a heart-opening yoga practice. By Doris Iding.

The Yoga of Jesus
“You have drunk from the bubbling spring”: About the Christ consciousness and finding the Christ Child within oneself. Dr. Ralph Skuban.

Achieve goals
How to get your inner saboteurs on board to to keep good intentions in the long term and to put them into practice. Doris Iding.

The path of acceptance
Biff Mithoefer takes his students on a poetic and profound healing journey. We spoke to him about Yin Yoga, the roots of his teaching style and the acceptance of one's own truth. Interview: Melanie Müller.

Yin Yoga, Ayurveda & Mysticism
Volker Mehl has just published his new book “Ayurveda goes everywhere” for which he collected interesting Stories, and also integrates Ayurveda into Yin Yoga, which he has been teaching more and more recently. Interview: Nina Haisken.


Yoga teacher
Yoga for everyone
Tino Fiedler offers yoga for people with intellectual disabilities and has already achieved a lot of good. To find out more about him and his students To find out more, YOGA AKTUELL visited the group in Ravensburg. Melanie Müller.

Yoga off the mat
Yoga in Cambodia
Petra Scholz teaches Ashtanga Yoga as part of a charity project in Phnom Penh. In YOGA AKTUELL she talks about it...

philosophy
Principles of Kashmiri Yoga
The path to self-realization, in which the self can be realized without the help of of the mind or the senses themselves: the spiritual teaching of Jean Kleins and the role that yoga plays in it. By Koos Zondervan.

Yogaworld
Dates, trends and news
News from the world of yoga. By Nina Haisken.

Health
The scent of the gods: incense
The well-known heart can do much more than just smell good – it is a well-known remedy whose powers are now being rediscovered By Irene Dalichow.

Nutrition
Cookies without sugar & gluten
Healthy Christmas baking: wonderful recipes for gluten- and sugar-free cookies. By Sabine Perndl.

Yoga therapy
When your head feels like bursting
Many people suffer from regular migraine attacks. We have the We asked Ayurveda expert and yoga therapist Alexander Peters what can be helpful.

Trip
Paris at Christmas time
Madhavi Guemoes shows you the hottest places in Paris for yoga and health food and reveals great tips for the pre-Christmas period.

Mantra
Ma Durga, the universal mother goddess
The protective, nourishing and fear-conquering power of the Devi and the celebrations of Navaratri, a traditional festival in honour the great goddess. By Yogini Shambhavi Devi.

Shakti
The power of devotion
Chameli Ardagh has founded Awakening Women, a network for female Spirituality. YOGA AKTUELL had the opportunity to charismatic teacher what it means to follow the feminine path to awaken and why devotion makes us stronger. Interview: Melanie Müller.

Shamanism
Shamanism in Nepal
Fascinating insights into the shamanic tradition of the small Himalayan state: How Nepalese shamans work and which The foundations of her healing art. By Eva Moog.

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YOGA-AKTUELL readers worldwide
City Special: Yoga where life pulsates

Short portrait: Questions about life
This time: Kundalini yoga teacher Satya Singh. Interview: Julia Johannsen.