advanced yoga studies in Berlin 2025

Advanced Yoga Studies in Berlin 2025

    POETRY OF BODY AND MIND 12 days in-person training module A profound immersion into advanced yoga studies and practice with lead teacher Tatjana Mesar and guest teachers This training module is a part of our Dynamic…
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…
mindful listening
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Mindful Listening

“The best place to practice Zen is at a busy intersection” – Zen proverb Cultivating mindfulness requires nothing exotic. You don’t need any expensive gadgetry or accoutrements. All you need is to be in the here and now. Daily life…
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

by Rainer Maria Rilke Buddhist scholar, environmental activist and author Joanna Macy is reading Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower". Embedded from Krista Tipett's On Being Podcast. Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower Quiet…
Giacomo Leopardi

L’INFINITO Giacomo Leopardi

"Always dear to me was this solitary hill and this hedge, which, for its part, excludes most of the horizon. But sitting and gazing at such endless spaces that stretch with their profound and serene silences, my wandering thoughts nearly…
just walking
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Just walking, for the sake of walking

Do you like walking? Just walking around, without any particular purpose? Since I’ve settled in the retreat center here in Thailand, in between my teaching sessions, I’m re-discovering the joy of walking. Just walking. Not even noticing…
Ode to SIlence
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Pablo Neruda’s Ode to Silence

Keeping Quiet Pablo Neruda’s Ode to Silence Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It…
vinyasa flow yoga
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The Quest for Mindfulness – MEETING YOUR EDGE

What does it mean to meet your edge? How do you know when you have met your edge? When you finally meet your edge, what do you do? I will take you on a small detour and return to these questions, with answers that have surfaced recently during…
being mindful
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The Quest for Mindfulness: The Art of Being Mindful Seaweed

I forgot to wear my contacts to class. What does that mean? It means that I can either rock my giant Woody Allen-esque glasses and enjoy them slipping off my face every time I’m in downward facing dog or I accept that its blind yoga for today.…
feeling uncomfortable
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The Quest for Mindfulness: FEELING UNCOMFORTABLE

Like any quest I am in search of something. At times the thing I seek is clear, but most times it is nebulous. The thing I search for ‘the present moment’ is an elusive creature. I see it hiding in shadows, but most times I feel like…
inspirations

Inspirations

W.A. Mozart John Cage Adrienne Rich Coco Chanel MOMA Berlin Philharmonic silk Japanese kimonos Jim Jarmush David Bowie BAUHAUS Marina Abramovic Jackson Pollock Jagoda Buic Marcel Proust kindness dancing nature silence
The Quest for Mindfulness
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The Quest for Mindfulness – Upside down and inside out

I love being upside down. I love love love it. Ask anyone who knows me well enough, I love doing things backwards and inverted - why? I have no clue, I just think its fun - perhaps I was a bat in previous life as I like Ask anyone who knows…
The quest for mindfulness - The Journey Begins!
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The quest for mindfulness – The Journey Begins!

One of the most challenging things, I imagine I am not alone in this, is being mindful and present. Being in the now has been my Everest of sorts for as long as I can remember. My mind is like a version of mental ping-pong - ping past-pong…
healthy snacks before yoga
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Pre Yoga Pick-me-ups – Healthy snacks before yoga

by Zen Yogini Kyra While it's not usually advisable to be in a state of digestion while practicing yoga, if we are distracted by our stomach growling it can take away from our ability to focus and enjoy the practice. Personally, if it's…