Yoga Aktuell 69 - 04/2011

Special Dossier Topic: Yoga and Sport - Mental Strength and Physical Balance

Yoga and sport is a topic with many facets: Yoga as mental preparation and physical regeneration for athletes, for the therapy of sports injuries or as a supplement to a purely body-oriented sporting activity and much more awaits you in our summer dossier. Whether you jog or play team sports, like to swing a tennis racket in your free time or are a competitive athlete, or whether you have always wondered how yoga in fitness centres differs from the courses offered in yoga schools - we have compiled many interesting aspects for you together with experts. Among other things, we have a trip to the stand-up paddling board and martial arts in store for you... combined with yoga and with quite a lot of practice for beginners!

Fit for sports
through yoga Better performance thanks to more strength, flexibility and focus: How yoga can help athletes. By Dirk Bennewitz.

Yoga combined with...
With which sports can yoga be combined well? A few examples in brief

Yoga & Stand-Up Paddling
Yoga on the SUP board - a cool thing. We show how it's done. By Kirsty Jones & Nayra Alonso.

Yoga and Sport
Yoga as an adjunct to sport and therapy for sports injuries from the the view of various experts. Interviews: Doris Iding.

How Yoga can support competitive athletes: Yoga teacher and Stephan Suh works with professional athletes from various disciplines and shares his Disciplines and talks about his experiences in the fields of Football, athletics, road cycling and taekwondo

The flow as an enlightenment experience
It is not uncommon for moments to occur in sport in which one feels a Merging with the numinous. Such "flow" experiences are ultimately nothing other than the state sought in yoga and other spiritual spiritual disciplines. By Doris Iding.

Yoga & Martial Arts
Many similarities, same goals: Yoga and martial arts are more more similar than many know. Dirk Bennewitz demonstrates this in theory and practice Theory and in practice - of course to join in

Yoga in the Fitness Centre
Yoga next to dumbbells, large machines and treadmills - what is yoga in the gym really like? By Anna Trökes.