Yoga News 125 - 06/2020

YOGA AKTUELL December/January gets you in the mood for Christmas and the New Year. Patrick Broome gives insights into his personal practice, Barbra Noh has tips for online teaching and Anjali Sriram talks about the meaning of Dharma. You will also learn useful knowledge from Vastu, the Indian equivalent of Feng Shui teachings, and lots of vegan recipes for delicious festive treats.


Yoga practice

Asana: Letting go at the end of the year
Let go of the old, invite in the new: an asana workshop with our cover model Marina Dietrich, which is suitable for the Raunächte, for example, and supports you in a fresh start into the coming year.

Pranayama – The Heart of Yoga
Dr. Ralph Skuban on breathing as a path: From natural breathing to pranayama.

Techniques of Hatha Yoga
In part 5 of the series by Sukadev Volker Bretz you will learn about Plavini-Kumbhaka, a technique with benefits such as heart opening and lightness.

Strength and elasticity
Part 2 – Elasticity: Lilla Wuttich explains how you can promote mobility in a targeted and meaningful way.

Yoga therapy for hands and arms
Lucia Nirmala Schmidt gives tips for alignment in support positions to specifically relieve the strain on the wrists.

Awakening mantras to full effect
How do you awaken the mantra shakti that makes a mantra effective? What role devotion, ritual and grace play in mantra practice and how mantras, whose effectiveness has been awakened, energize our entire existence. By Pandit Vamadeva Shastri Dr. David Frawley.

The 5 elements in Yin Yoga
In TCM there is an elaborate theory of the elements. This understanding also plays an important role in Yin Yoga and is explained in its basics here by Helga Baumgartner.

Come with us on the soul journey!
Part 4 of Satya Singh's Kundalini series: the journey through the fourteenth vortex - "I love invigorating food".



Spiritual Life

Full Moon Meditations
In our new series you will find contemplative texts for every full moon, written by Wolfgang Bischoff.

Character and basic needs
All people have certain basic needs. How can we deal with them wisely and live happily even if our expectations regarding these needs are not always fully met? By Florian Palzinsky.

Buddha behind bars
Freedom and inner happiness can be found even where you least think they are possible - and Buddha nature also resides in those who are on the fringes of society. By Doris Iding.

Transcending identifications
About identification as a necessary mechanism of personality development – ​​and about the recognition and experience of the deep connection that unites us beyond all roles and fragmentations. By Ralf Schultz.

Peter Danov: Ambassador of Love
According to the Bulgarian Sun Master Peter Danov, charity, peaceful community and a large world family are at the heart of a new culture for which humanity is preparing. A short portrait of the fascinating teacher. By Marianne Scherer.

The dignity of life and death
Iris Disse accompanied her mother during her transition to death – at a time when the dying often face isolation.

Living and working in cosmic happiness
Vastu-Vidya as a social tool: How the ancient science helps to create harmony and closeness to nature and to easily make use of the given potential. By Elisabeth Hastrup-Kil.



Interview

Fifteen minutes a day for your practice
In his new book, Patrick Broome gives suggestions for a needs-based, individual practice. In an interview with YOGA AKTUELL, he advocates a self-practice that is so good for you that the motivation to practice regularly comes naturally. Interview: Doris Iding.

When we saved the world
In Anjali Sriram's new novel, myth and modernity collide. YOGA AKTUELL spoke to the author about the timeless and at the same time highly topical messages of the story, in which the Indian epic Ramayana is embedded. Interview: Nina Haisken.

Online on the mat
Barbra Noh talks in the YOGA-AKTUELL interview about her experiences with online teaching and gives tips on how you can also use this new opportunity
you can use well. Interview: Doris Iding.



Nutrition

Raw vegan Christmas baking
The creative Christmas baking ideas from the raw vegan kitchen are a real joy. Would you like to try out some delicious alternatives to the tried and tested classics? Recipes from Vivien & Petra Belschner, presented by Marita Voithofer.

With plant power through the winter
Vegan winter recipes by Gaz Oakley: Now it's time for a little more – full-bodied enjoyment that's good for body and soul.

King Kale
A winter vegetable that is particularly nutritious, healthy and delicious: Kale easily competes with all the other "superfoods" and has now become a trendy vegetable itself under its English name Kale. By Irene Dalichow.



Miscellaneous

Yoga philosophy and mysticism

Crazy about God, Part 2: Mirabai
On the Alchemy of the Broken Heart: The Wandering Poet Who Longed for Krishna. By Srila Devi.


Health

The true rulers of the planet
Invitation to a change of perspective: pandemics from a biological perspective. By Eva Wagner.


Yogaworld

Tips and trends
News from the world of yoga, this time also: Christmas traditions. By Marita Voithofer & Nina Haisken.