Yoga Aktuell 151 - 02/2025

People

Yin Yoga and the power of stillness
Jo Phee is one of the pioneers of Yin Yoga. In the YOGA-AKTUELL interview, we talked to her about the connection between Yin Yoga and the Chinese art of healing, about Daoism and about the wisdom of the body. Interview: Eva-Maria Kopel.

Food

Meal Prep 
Meal prepping is the perfect way to combine effective organisation and full enjoyment - here you'll find suggestions, tips and recipes. Recipes: Svenja Ostwald.

Yoga philosophy and mysticism 
Man, an individual on the way
Why the initially difficult release from bondage is an essential process in the search for one's own path. By Bhajan Noam.

New light on the Yogasutra - Part 3
The practice path: content, basic concepts and lessons from the second chapter. By Stephanie Schönberger.

Advaita - from philosophy to way of life
The consistently transcendental teaching of Advaita Vedanta and the transition from theory to practice. By Ramanatha Giri.

Yoga practice

The seven chakras
Part 7: The crown chakra - gateway to bliss. By Shai Tubali.

Anchored in the lightness of being
In this asana sequence with Stine Lethan, you can surrender to the yoga embodiment, practise slowing down and celebrate conscious pausing

Yoga for the pelvic floor
With this asana practice for a strong pelvic floor, led by Isabel Djukanovic, you can promote a harmonious interplay of tone and elasticity

Four stretching exercises with conscious breathing
 Discover the physiological and energetic effects of stretching - Bhajan Noam guides you through the exercises and explains what exactly happens during them

Spiritual life

Self-confident manhood in uncertain times
A tribute to natural masculinity and a return to the five "Zeus energies". By Florian Palzinsky.

Wise fools
With humour and self-irony, they draw attention to grievances and human weaknesses: Fools are the often underestimated wise men and teachers in history and literature. By Doris Iding.

The nature and nature of weakness
What actually is weakness, why is it important to consciously allow it, and what is the difference between natural and "made" weakness? By Muni Konradi.

Elemental beings - Encounters with the invisible
And yet they do exist... Our author Yvonne Ferger reports on her delicate approach to the nature spirits in her neighbourhood 

What colours say about you
The energetic meaning of different colours and what our colour preferences reveal about ourselves - an entertaining and informative excursion into the world of energy from the perspective of an energy worker. By Robert Henderson.

Ayurveda and health

Consciousness and immunity
Strong immunity is the basis for physical and mental health. It has an impact on our social order and our natural environment, as well as inwardly on our own deeper consciousness, which in turn influences it. By David Frawley.

Field report

Tell me who you are
Switching off distractions and facing up to conditioning in order to enter the inner space beyond our habits and experience reality anew - experience report on a Satori retreat with dyadic work. By Marian Brehmer.

Interviews

How yoga enriches love
Katharina Middendorf and Ralf Sturm offer couples and sex therapy. In the YOGA-AKTUELL interview, they talk about intimacy, doubt and real connection in relationships from their many years of experience in this field. Interview with: Eva-Maria Kopel.

The gut and the indispensability of symbiosis
Dr Angelika Gorlo specialises in mitochondrial medicine, among other things. In the YOGA-AKTUELL interview, she talks about the fascinating field of gut health and the all-encompassing We. Interview: Doris Iding.

Yoga teacher

Am I good enough?
Are my skills as a yoga teacher sufficient? And what do I actually stand for? - About expectations and ideas as well as your own understanding of yoga as a basis for self-demands. By Nicole Konrad.

Shamanism

Meditative plant approaches
Learning directly from plants, experiencing them in a deeper way and receiving messages from the plant spirits - how to connect with a plant through meditation. By Kevin Johann.

And much more besides...