Yoga News 94 - 05/2015

Yoga practice

Yoga & Feelings
We don't always feel love and peace within ourselves after practicing yoga. Sometimes, when tensions are released, repressed or difficult feelings come to light. How can we deal with these in a healing way? By Angelika Doerne.

Asana: Kurmasana
Fly or stay on the ground - three variations of the challenging turtle pose and why it can be a symbol for our yoga practice. By Ronald Steiner.

Meditation: Reading the Book of Nature
We can deepen our connection with nature if we expand the objective, distanced observation to include spiritual sensations and meditative empathy. By Bernhard Spirkl.

Breathe freedom: Tibetan breathing yoga
Ute Lama -; student and wife of the breathing yoga teacher Chumba Lama -; about the fruits of Tibetan pranayama practice

Asana: Yin Yoga and Storytelling 2
Encountering the shadow to become whole: A Yin Yoga practice with an accompanying story that leads us into the darker areas of our being. By Ranja Weis.

Yoga in times of grief and loss
The loss of a loved one triggers indescribable grief, which manifests itself in many facets. Can yoga really help us in the phases of deepest pain? A personal report by Katharina Middendorf.

Respecting traditions
Mindfulness-based methods have a firm place in yoga practice How can one preserve the substance of the old methods and and at the same time adapt them to our current needs? By Doris Iding.

The spiritual dimension of the pineal gland
The pineal gland – a misunderstood centre of consciousness in the organism, which is not only an organ, but also a gate opener to higher worlds and under certain Conditions even produce the legendary immortality nectar should. By Dr. Friedrich Demolsky.

Free celibacy
Many priests, monks and nuns have great difficulties with the Celibacy. Hildegard von Bingen was already of the opinion that not everyone for the permanent Abstinence is created. By Doris Iding.

Intimacy with the creative power
In an interview with YOGA AKTUELL, Mark Whitwell explains the connecting Power of sex, the meaning of intimacy with existence itself and the caring Quality of life. Interview: Stephanie Schönberger.

The Encourager
Despite the obstacles that fate has put in her way, Britta Lange describes her path in an inspiring way. In the interview, the young woman from the springs their strength, overcoming fear and the importance of yoga for her life. Interview: Doris Iding.

The asana as an invitation to look inward
The well-known American yoga teacher Judith Hanson Lasater has been practicing for 45 years. She spoke to YOGA AKTUELL about the Development of Yoga in the West, about BKS Iyengar, whose student she was for a long time, and about the Necessity of mourning. Interview: Anne Voigt.

Consciousness gives us choice
Bryan Kest became one of the leading yoga practitioners through his Power Yoga. most influential yoga teachers of the present day. In YOGA AKTUELL explains he, what it means with his famous saying "Don't bring your shit to yoga and turn yoga into shit!” Interview: Etan Boritzer.

Communicate correctly
Max Strom tells in an interview how yoga teachers should teach, so that they are truly understood by their students. Interview: Melanie Müller.

Yoga and Spiral Dynamics
Spiraldynamik® as an anatomically based movement concept for a safe and therapeutically effective yoga practice. By Lilla N. Wuttich.

Yoga in drug therapy
Yoga classes teach drug addicts how to have a positive Body awareness and a constructive approach to difficult thoughts and Feelings can develop. By Andrea Stolz.

A good start to the day
Which breakfast is recommended from an Ayurvedic perspective? Tips from nutritionist Daniela Wolff.

Smoking with local herbs
Smoking appeals to all the senses. Now in autumn, the traditional Time for this archaic ritual that affects our bodies and our Soul works. By Melanie Müller.

Mantra
A matter of the heart: Ganesha
He is extremely popular and has a weakness for sweets: Ganesha is one of the most dazzling deities of Hinduism. What does the History of the elephant-headed sympathizer? By Dr. Michael Nickel.

Music & Sound
A prayer with the body
The well-known jazz singer Lizz Wright recently released her new album “Freedom & Surrender”. She spoke to YOGA AKTUELL about the voice-enhancing effects to access to truths, that are hidden in the body. Interview: Nina Haisken.

Yogaworld
Dates, trends and news
Latest news from the yoga scene. By Nina Haisken.

Shiva
Sex and Yoga and Gurus
Many yoga teachers find themselves in the situation of having to to feel attracted to a student or course participant – and of course also vice versa. Can a relationship develop from this? Cameron Shayne.

Shamanism
Ritual postures – a gateway to the otherworld
How to combine very specific postures and special rhythms can enter into trance states and what these Conditions characterize health. By Doris Iding.

Trip
Wine, Ayurveda & Buddhas
There is a lot to discover in Traben-Trarbach: from the highest worth seeing collection in the Buddha Museum to profound Ayurveda treatments to to vineyards and their delicious yields. By Doris Iding.

Oh Prague, you are awesome!
Yoga & lifestyle blogger Madhavi Guemoes has become golden city of Prague and has the most beautiful yoga places for you and health food restaurants. By Madhavi Guemoes.

philosophy
Did humans descend from animals?
A critical examination of the theory of evolution, the fundamental contains deficiencies because it is based on a materialistic worldview. By Armin Risi

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YOGA-AKTUELL readers worldwide
Marion Bachinger was inspired by the vastness of the Sahara to practice yoga in the sand dunes