Yoga News 137 - 06/2022

You will find sources of joy, hope and confidence in this edition for the New Year! Metta, the meditation of compassion, you will learn here in a very practical way, and you can experience the comforting and discover the protective power of the Mahamrtyunjaya Mantra. In addition, you will come across a sutra of universal wisdom. Also: Asana sequences from calm and relaxing to an adventure with Hanuman and breathing practice with Ralph Skuban.

People

Live from the heart
The Well-known yoga teacher and festival organizer Sathya tells how the practice at a very young age inner peace and deep healing and why yoga is like alchemy for him. Interview: Doris Iding.

Food

Taste Tibet
Warming, nourishing and simply delicious: Favorite dishes from Tibet, which in our winter grey just as in the heights of the Himalayas, they provide a feeling of well-being. By Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa.

Yoga practice

Hanuman’s Leap
Hanumanasana, the splits: Lucie Beyer shows preparatory exercises, simpler Variations, tips and inspiration for the popular posture, which among other things stands for the quality of devotion.

Conscious breathing
Part 2 of the series with Dr. Ralph Skuban: Healthy and unhealthy breathing

Anatomy to go
Poor posture in Asana practice, Part 5: Raising shoulders and neck compress – how can these compensatory balancing mechanisms be overcome? By Dr. Peter Poeckh.

Balance in Bakasana
balance in arm balances: How you can activate the entire body through an integrative body more lightness and can lift yourself higher, learn you in this practice with Alexandra Harfield

Yoga for people with physical limitations
Part 1: Relaxation with our cover model Elena Lustig – Find peace and let go in a decelerating sequence that helps you reduce stress helps

Yogic treatment of pain
Many start with Yoga because it helps relieve physical pain through asanas But it is always important to have a constructive relationship with the Pain and its causes. By Mascha Veitsman.

meditation

Discover meditation paths
Metta meditation – May all beings be happy! By Doris Iding.

interview

Reach your full potential
Abby Galvin teaches Katonah Yoga worldwide, an extraordinary and multifaceted style. What it has in common with origami, and with which She tells us here how she works with metaphors. Interview: Eva Paasch.

Spiritual Life

The art of life balance
The five pillars of a balanced everyday life: How you can promote self-confidence, satisfaction and self-efficacy. By Florian Palzinsky.

Mahamrtyunjaya Mantra
The great liberation mantra from the Vedas: about its protective effect and the Immortality, which is our true nature. By Swami Pramananda.

Chakra Balancing
A honest look at chakra balancing: what it really is and why most workshops are a waste of time and money. By Robert Henderson.

The lost innocence
What the inner conflict of man has to do with the massacres of animals, and how we can relationship to creation – and to ourselves – in order to to act differently in the world. By Nina Haisken.

Sadhana – the spiritual practice
Part 5: The importance of the spiritual teacher for an effective sadhana. By Srila Devi (Tiziana Stupia).

Shiva and Shakti

The feminine divine power
Durga, Lakshmi and Kali – how the divine entities represent different aspects of the harmonious Embody wholeness, which you can mature with their help in your life you can let go. By Yoga Shakti (Elisabeth Hastrup-Kiil).

Yoga philosophy and mysticism

A heavenly gift
One At night, Bhajan Noam found himself in the presence of a master, who lived in Bengal many centuries ago. The gift that revealed to him in this soul-to-soul encounter, he shares here with you. By Bhajan Noam.

The Yoga Paths of the Bhagavad Gita
Part 5: The little-noticed meditation teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. By Dr. Eckard Wolz-Gottwald.

Health

Medicinal mushrooms
Mushrooms as food and medicine: Edible mushrooms have been medicinal mushrooms for thousands of years. Long established in Asia, mushroom medicine is now considered to be groundbreaking worldwide. By Eberhard J. Wormer.

Incense

Frankincense and myrrh
Of great medicinal and spiritual importance since ancient times: the two sought-after resins are valuable in many ways and also rich in symbolism. By Kevin Johann.