
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…

200-hr Yoga Teacher Training Free Info Session 2026
Are you curious about deepening your yoga practice or exploring the path of teaching yoga? Join us for a free info session to learn more about the upcoming 200-hour Dynamic Mindfulness Yoga Teacher Training, starting in May 2026. This…

Advanced Lectures in Buddhism with Karmen Mihalinec
A Week of Insight: Advanced Lectures in Buddhism with Karmen Mihalinec July 21st – 25th, 2024 | Berlin-Kreuzberg Join us for a special week of profound teachings with Karmen Mihalinec, teacher and director of…

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…

The Evolution of Yoga and My Search for New Approaches
When I moved to Berlin in 2009, being a yoga teacher felt like the most unique profession in the world. It was quirky, unconventional, and allowed me to live life entirely on my own terms. I started teaching yoga in my non-furnished living…

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…

Transcending tradition and finding a contemporary yoga that fits
Most of the physical movements and postures commonly recognised as “yoga asanas” haven’t been around that long, but have come to be widely accepted as sacred forms. But things are evolving quickly, and yoga is now adapting to evidence-based…

What moves you?
To paraphrase the great German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, it’s what moves us that really matters. And still, we so often get preoccupied with the ‘how’. Because the ‘What moves you?’ question is complicated, personal,…
Photo by Pablo García Saldaña on UnsplashThere are many ways to do something right
You know that story of ‘doing life right’? People who ‘do it right’ are born in the right family, attend the right school, get accepted to the right university, get the right job, pick the right partner, settle in the right neighborhood,…

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,…

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,…

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…
