What is Buddhist Yoga? Was ist buddhistisches Yoga?
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What is Buddhist Yoga?

Embracing change: a new perspective on the body In today's society, the emphasis on physical appearance is undeniable. We're bombarded with messages about looking good, being fit, and striving for an ideal body image. This obsession with outer…
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The Keeper of Stories: Finding Peace with a Painful Family Legacy

Have you ever noticed how, in many families, certain roles just seem to ‘settle’ on someone? The organizer, the peacemaker, the one who remembers every birthday... and sometimes, the keeper of the heavy stories. The one entrusted, consciously…
Choosing Peace Over Panic: Why I Stopped Reading the News
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Choosing Peace Over Panic: Why I Stopped Reading the News

To Read the News or Not to Read the News? Growing up, I always enjoyed following the news. It felt natural, like part of my DNA. I still vividly remember being 13 and reading Danas, a progressive political magazine in the former Yugoslavia.…
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Long Tones, Thin Walls, and the Superpower of Zen Practice

Ever since I started playing the flute as a child, my life revolved around a simple yet profound ritual: practicing. And good practice, my teacher often reminded me, starts with long tones! If you’re unfamiliar with the art of long tones,…
Yoga Scholarship
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Finding stillness: how Zen Yoga changed this Iranian woman’s life

A turbulent life in Iran led Azi Etemadi to immigrate to Germany where she found “the sweet taste of stillness”, and became a Dynamic Mindfulness yoga teacher to help refugees. Cottbus in eastern Germany is a small and quiet university…
Lying Down - Subversive Savasana
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Lying Down on the Ground

This guided relaxation is all about grounding. Voice and bansuri (Indian bamboo flute) - Tatjana Mesar, a founder of Zen Yoga by Dynamic Mindfulness If you have lower back issues, place some cushions under the knees. Blankets are also nice…
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Virya Aspect in Dynamic Mindfulness Yoga

There is nothing we can accomplish in life without investing energy.  In this article we discuss virya and how to cultivate it. Many of us dream about being an elite athlete, performer, artist or actor. Yet, if we were a fly on a wall,…
Fourth Paramita, Virya – The Perfection of Energy
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4th Paramita, Virya – The Perfection of Energy

In this fourth instalment of our series on the Six Perfections, we boost our energy levels by looking at Virya: Exertion.  The new lazy? "I am soooooo busy," I said. "Oh my god, same here," my friend replied. We shook our heads saying this,…
having patience. kshanti
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Third Paramita, Kshanti – Patience

HOLD YOUR HORSES! In this third instalment of our series on the Six Perfections, we explore the topic of “kshanti” – having patience or forbearance. Heard this before? “I’ve been patient with this, I really have…but I’m TOTALLY…
second paramita, ethical living, virtue
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Cultivating Ethical Living, without guilt tripping yourself (or others!)

In this second instalment of our series on the Six Perfections we explore the topic of “shila”; our ethical living in everyday life. Imagine this: You open a friendly, handwritten note, inviting you to change your life and let go…
Sosein des Körpers
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Dancing for joy on the path

The Buddhist path offers more than somber contemplation and quietude; the experience of deep stillness from a sustained meditation practice can cause a river of joy to flow through our everyday lives. It happened one sunny morning after meditation.…
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Beginner’s Mind Series 03

In the series “Beginner's mind” Mariana Romagnani shares her experience of going through Dynamic Mindfulness Foundational Yoga Teacher Training during a pandemic. Water Module: Subtly Penetrating  In the second module of Dynamic…
Yoga reads Charity Event

Yoga Reads, Dynamic Mindfulness meets literature in action – ONLINE EVENT

Online Event in English language, with Tatjana Mesar, a founder of Dynamic Mindfulness and Sara Piazza, International Member of “The Reader” (Liverpool)  Saturday, March 21st from 15:00 till 17:30 at Zen Yoga by Dynamic…