Yoga Aktuell 144 - 01/2024

Discover your inner divinity, strengthen your intuition, ignite the inner fire and let yourself be inspired - a multifaceted edition with plenty of practice awaits you...

People

Yoga and family
Shayan Landrum is known as an Ashtanga yogini in the international yoga community and travels from workshop to workshop with her husband Ty and their children. In the YOGAAKTUELL interview she talks about family life on the road. Interview: Marita Peter.

Yoga practice

Shatkarma
Cleansing for body, mind and soul – Part 4: Lauliki / Nauli. By Andrea Wichterich.

Basic principles of asana groups, part 3: hip openers (1)
In this practical series, Nicole Konrad examines the different posture groups and the movement principles underlying them – with great benefit for your practice!

Conscious breathing
… with Ralph Skuban, Part 9: Letting go of pain

Yoga and Intuition
Intuition is a very special gift - how we can distinguish it from other voices and impulses within us, and how yoga can strengthen it. By Mascha Veitsman.

Menopause: Asana Practice – Part 1
Elena Lustig shows a yoga practice that can help you to be more calm and accepting when you have hot flashes

Just practice
Part 3 - Practice in the morning or afternoon: Small breaks in your daily routine give you space for a short, beneficial yoga session. By Stephanie Schönberger.

Food

Springtime is SOUWL time
“Round” Ayurvedic meals by Volker Mehl and Anke Pachauer that will help you find new lightness and nourish your soul at the same time

Yoga philosophy and mysticism

This world in the hereafter
The one world - death as a revelation of the original, imperishable, only being that is our life. By Bhajan Noam.

Pushpanjali
“Flower offerings” as a spiritual practice – Part 5: Truthfulness. By Swami Premananda (Ammaji).

Ego… Do I need this or can it go away?
How should one deal with the ego on the spiritual path? What exactly does that mean, and is there such a thing as a "healthy ego"? By Brigitte Heinz and Hajo Normann, based on texts by Christopher Hareesh Wallis.

Women in the history of yoga
Part 6: Swami Sivananda Radha – dancer and yogini. By Wiebke Mohme.

Spiritual Life

Noble goals
... human needs and free ethics - about high ideals and their implementation. By Florian Palzinsky.

The mystical sun
So much more than just a celestial body: about the sun as a giver of life and as a source of the highest light that shows us the way back to unity. By Diana Helen Fegert.

Namaste
“The divine in me greets the divine in you!” – a reminder of the Buddha nature that is inherent in us. By Doris Iding.

Feeding the demons
The Tibetan practice “Chöd” as a technique for conflict resolution. By Srila Devi.

The 99 Qualities of Being
The 99 names of Allah are divine attributes, the depth of which we can experience through devoted recitation or contemplation. YOGA AKTUELL spoke about this with the Sufi teacher Fatimabi Monika Grieger. By Julia Johannsen.

The great search
Escape or completion? About the discovery of the divine spark in one's own heart and the realization of the soul as a path back to the original unity. By Yvonne Ferger.

interview

Intuition – a gift of the soul
Sister Nandini is a nun of the Self-Realization Fellowship, whose founder Paramahansa Yogananda left behind timeless wisdom - including on the subject of intuition. In an interview with YOGA AKTUELL, she explains some of these valuable orientation aids. Interview: Nina Haisken.

meditation

The Yoga of Inner Heat
The inner fire that melts the Kundalini essences in the chakras – Shai Tubali on a highly effective method, also known under the Tibetan name “Tummo”

Shamanism

Shamanism in the northern Alps
The awakening spring power at Imbolc and Ostara – about the time of germination and new development. By Lucia Schmidt.

Incense

tobacco
Ancient medicinal and ritual plant: tobacco is the shaman plant par excellence! By Kevin Johann.