Yoga News 129 - 04/2021

The new edition takes you straight into practice: Lucie Beyer shows you asanas for the hips, and this time our Yin Yoga series is dedicated to the nourishing earth element. Also: ideas for your plant-based summer barbecue, new perspectives for your meditation practice, a fresh look at the Yoga Sutra and much more!

Yoga practice

Asana: Yin Yoga and the Element Earth
The earth forms the basis of our life, it stands for inner stability. In our Yin Yoga sequence with Helga Baumgartner you support the energy of the earth element with the organ pair spleen and stomach organ pair of spleen and stomach

Pranayama – the heart of yoga
Part 11 of the series by Dr. Ralph Skuban: Agnisara, the “fire practice”, and Kapalabhati, the “skull lighting”

Asana: Happy Hips
Lucie Beyer shows her favorite exercises for mobilizing, strengthening and stretching the hips.

The ear as a gateway to the soul
The sense of hearing accompanies us from the earliest phase of development until immediately before death, longer than all other senses. Why it is characterized by depth and authenticity, and how you can refine it and experience it more consciously. By Mascha Veitsmann.

Yoga
The constant exploration of the body's movement possibilities and trust in the natural rhythms make Luna Yoga a style that nourishes the joy of life and can activate self-healing potential. By Adelheid Ohlig.

Self-healing with yoga and osteopathy
This is how you can treat stress-related complaints and relieve pain using osteopathic techniques in yoga practice – ideas for self-application. By Friederike Reumann.



Health and nutrition

Vegan Barbecue
Simple, quick and super tasty: even beyond the many new convenience products, you can find tasty vegetable-based grilled food. What is particularly suitable and how you can use marinades, selected oils and a few tips to create real barbecue highlights. By Caroline Pritschet.

The on/off switches of nutrition
How you can become younger, improve brain performance and support your immune system through nutrition. By Andreas Jopp.

Eight steps on the path to holistic health
How the stages described by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra can help you strengthen your immune system and your self-healing powers. By Anna E. Röcker.

Siddha Medicine, Part 2: The Shiva Yoga of Siddha Tirumular
God is Love: The quest for immortality of the famous Siddha, who wrote the Tirumandiram over the course of three thousand years and is said to have acquired all supernatural abilities. By Dr. Roman Sieler.


Meditation and spiritual life

Full Moon Meditations: the August Full Moon
Change requires that everyone works on themselves – a thoughtful look back at a speech given by a twelve-year-old to the UN almost thirty years ago, which is still extremely relevant today. By Wolfgang Bischoff.

Thoughts are not your enemy
Do you have to control your thoughts during meditation? Or is there a completely different recommendation for dealing with them? A conciliatory view of the mind that offers you a new approach. By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

Sparks of enlightenment in the midst of everyday life
They can come to us anytime and anywhere: moments of awakening. When we open ourselves to these little sparks, life takes on a different direction. By Doris Iding.

Eight Pillars of Joy
A precious elixir of life in difficult times – fundamental sources of joy and inner enrichment that are always open to everyone. By Florian Palzinsky.

Wasp stings
or: a reminder of the sweet preciousness of fleeting life – how a tiny creature taught our author a valuable lesson in devotion. By Ralf Schultz.


Yoga philosophy and mysticism

Ganesha Vighnaraja
The King of Obstacles as an Aspect of the Divine – on karmic consequences in the reality dream of duality. By Swamini Pramananda (Ammaji).

The Tattvas in Tantra
Levels of the One – an approach to the incomprehensible and indivisible in which we all are contained. By Nicole Konrad.

Crazy about God, Part 6
Teresa of Avila – mystic, saint, poet. By Srila Devi.

Prakrti Power
Those who reject creation will never find freedom: Why the Yoga Sutra does not call for renunciation of the world, but rather contains an often overlooked yes to life in all its manifestations. By Stephanie Schönberger.


Miscellaneous

interview

Connected with the heavenly forces
Bhajan Noam always devoted himself to his inner calling and spiritual path with all his intensity. He spoke to YOGA AKTUELL about the highs and lows of his path, about the earth as a practice planet and about the unity of the inner and outer cosmos. Interview: Nina Haisken.

Regain your strength
Neurobiologist Prof. Gerald Hüther is known beyond the scientific community thanks to his books. YOGA AKTUELL spoke to him about how the lockdown has affected children and how they can be supported now. Interview: Doris Iding.


Yogaworld

Tips and trends
News from the world of yoga. By Nina Haisken and Eva-Maria Kopel.


Plant

India’s sacred plants, part 4: Indian basil
This type of basil is widely known as a medicinal plant, incense and culinary herb. In India it is considered the embodiment of Lakshmi, the goddess of luck, fertility and love. By Kevin Johann.


The animal protection page

Episode 12: The exploitation of donkeys
Heavy burden instead of a carefree existence: how humans make life miserable for donkeys. By Nina Haisken.