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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 Zen Yoga teacher to help refugees. Cottbus in eastern Germany is a small and quiet university town surrounded…
Online Tutorials: Warm-Up
The cornerstone of the Dynamic Mindfulness method is a contemporary fusion of holistic asana flow and Buddhist mindfulness meditation. The approach to sequencing is a carefully crafted blend that incorporates: The vigor of sequenced asana…
Office Yoga Online Class Part 1
With Maaike Hoogstede, Dynamic Mindfulness yoga teacher
Recorded at the Impact Hub Berlin To learn more about our business yoga offers, click here.
What is Buddhist Yoga?
“It is just within this 'fathom long' body
endowed with perception and cognition
that there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world,
and the way leading to the cessation of the world.” Rohitassasutta, SN 2.26
A…
Healing negative body image
A round belly is a happy belly
At the end of each yoga class, I guide students through a self-massage. These last five minutes are always quite special for me. Massage not only distributes the chi, or life energy evenly throughout the body,…
The Quest for Mindfulness – BOOBS
Breathe.
Tatjana says.
I... C…C..Can’t
I squeeze out. “Deep breaths in and out” she repeats. Seriously, I am suffocating over here. I’m in a shoulder stand and my boobs are cutting off my airways as they flatten my larynx.…
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…
The quest for mindfulness: Return to your breath
Thursday came and with it my very first official Dynamic Yoga class with Tatjana. I was strangely nervous, wondering if I was going to suck or not. Intellectually I know yoga practice is not about being good or bad and more a case of being…