Yoga Aktuell 153 - 04/2025

People

Life as a teacher, the heart as a compass
Sam Garrett's music gets under your skin and speaks a deeper language. In the YOGA-AKTUELL interview, the singer-songwriter, who is celebrated by the international yoga scene, talks about unity, presence and the sound that flows from the heart. Interview with: Eva-Maria Kopel.

Food

The taste of summer
Easy vegetarian recipes for your garden party, balcony dinner or picnic in the countryside. From Doreen Bergmann.

Ayurveda

Feel-good skin with Ayurveda
Glow through inner balance: Ayurvedic tips and routines to make your skin glow. By Anke Pachauer and Volker Mehl.

Dementia from an Ayurvedic perspective
What factors can cause dementia and what does Ayurveda advise to prevent or treat the disease? By Dr Hedwig H. Gupta.

Plants

Connected to trees
Part 1: Earth-historical and cultural-historical considerations. By Andrea Wichterich.

Health

New knowledge about largely unknown body structures
About the interstitium and the parenchyma, which open up a new approach to understanding body therapies and yoga. Plus: a meditation. By Bhajan Noam.

Yoga practice

Abhyasa und Vairagya
The dance between doing and letting go: a yin-yang sequence with Nina Heitmann that invites you to experience both poles.

Kundalini ReAlign
Part 1: An integrative yoga practice for refined intuition and inner regulation with Caroline Eder.

Spiritual life

Spiritual insights when travelling and camping 
Personal lessons for life, learnt on the road far from home. By Florian Palzinsky.

The full reality
On man's wonderful capacity for knowledge - on the 100th anniversary of Dr Rudolf Steiner's death. By Yvonne Ferger.

Get involved!
In a yoga scene teeming with options, many jump from one possibility to the next instead of persistently committing to a practice, a community or a spiritual guide. By Doris Iding.

My body - my temple
A tantric-spiritual reflection on gender reassignment. By Iris Disse.

Yoga philosophy and mysticism

New light on the yoga sutra - Part 5: 
The fourth chapter: Kaivalya-Pada - what's left to say at the end. By Stephanie Schönberger.

Warum Aurobindo cool ist
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga has had a great influence on the understanding of yoga as we know it today. About Aurobindo's work and the characteristics of the yoga he formulated. By Martin Henniger.

The creation of the world of Samsara
... from the perspective of Advaita Vedanta: How the impermanent world emerges from its imperishable foundation. By Ramanatha Giri.

Getting to the bottom of the "I"
The nature, work and wisdom of the Indian saint Ramana Maharshi - Part 1 of a new series. By Marian Brehmer.

A Christian sadhu
Experience report: A pilgrimage to St Anthony of Padua. By Srila Devi.

Rta, the greater cosmic order
The higher order of the cosmos or the laws of prakrti - immerse yourself in the Vedic wisdom of our inseparable interweaving with the nature of the earth and the harmony of the universe. By Shambhavi Chopra.

The world of the Samadhis
About samadhi as the key to liberation and enlightenment, the different stages of samadhi and the special types of this experience that are specific to the different yoga paths. By Swami Vishnudevananda Giri.

Interview

The first step is safety
Annie Au teaches a trauma-sensitive form of Yin Yoga. In the YOGA-AKTUELL interview, she explains how Somatic Yin Yoga uses the language of the body to regulate the nervous system and restore connection. Interview: Eva-Maria Kopel.

Die psychedelische Renaissance 
Consciousness and drug researcher Markus Berger on gaining knowledge through psychoactive substances and the opportunities and risks of society's current openness to psychedelic experiences. Interview: Kevin Johann.

Yoga teacher

We share the space with each other
On the question of how we can give everyone a safe space to develop in the classroom and why we should sometimes set boundaries. By Nicole Konrad.

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