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Just as turbulently as the female hormones establish themselves over the course of a few years during puberty, they also decline again in midlife. So in my golden fifties, as a "queenager", I discover...

A lot is written, claimed and argued about what stretching actually is, how to do it most intelligently and whether it makes sense at all. I think this is because...

Yoga Therapy transforms problems into potential. If we act anyway, either through inactivity (yes - not acting is also an action) or by taking the next, necessary step, then it is also possible...

Yoga Therapy IS NOT MEDICINE
The desire of yoga practitioners to receive concrete help outside the conventional medical framework is constantly growing. In addition to conventional medical measures such as vitamin D supplementation, taking light-filled walks,...

"Your fly is open." - "THANK YOU ♡" we reply with relief as we enter the concert hall. The atmosphere is sublime and everyone is dressed smartly. When we go into an important meeting...

Yoga is a self-empowering practice with great potential to support grounding and safety. We can have a nourishing body experience through simple movements, connect with our sensations and...

Our posture reflects our inner attitude. You could also say that our emotional state is expressed in our posture. We have all repeatedly perceived and are aware that the separation of mind and body is outdated. Yoga and other bodywork concepts have long since concluded, as has modern neuroscience and its related fields, that our bodies do not exist independently of our emotions and our mental processes. So why, I ask myself and many of my clients in practice, do we hold ourselves so poorly?

In everyday life, we need our hands to grasp ourselves and our environment. They use large parts of our cerebral cortex and are closely connected to our senses. Feeling and touching temperature, surface texture, shape and consistency enable us to grasp and categorize.

In everyday life, we need our hands to grasp ourselves and our environment. They use large parts of our cerebral cortex and are closely connected to our senses. Feeling and touching temperature, surface texture, shape and consistency enable us to grasp and categorize.

What breathing means for our lives, what damages and strengthens our lungs, and how we can practice quitting harmful patterns like smoking.

Words are powerful. In the evolution of man and the developing possibilities of a neuroplastic, growing brain, the possibility arose over the last forty thousand years or so to perceive and process ever more complex contexts.

Yoga is primarily about the integration of body and breath with the goal of a calm, balanced mind, not about physical fitness. The latter, if practiced sensibly and in a balanced way, is only a pleasant side effect.

In the last century, muscles were big in fashion and got a lot of attention in the health scene. From today's perspective, the research accessible at the time was still in its infancy, to put it diplomatically.

Again and again I receive exciting questions from the yoga teachers of the different yoga styles. Who should, may and can use the headstand stool and why?

Yes and no; diagnoses can provide clarity, but in their effect they have more potential to stigmatize people with their complaints, to "write" them into it and to inhibit the process of recovery than the other way around. Basically, it is not the diagnoses themselves but the meaning that is given to a diagnosis in our culture. They essentially describe abnormalities, visible physical changes or states of mind from which the affected persons or their environment subjectively suffer.

People frequently ask me whether ist is safe to practice yoga after the implantation of a pacemaker. Most recently, the question was posed like this: "As of late, my mother-in-law has a pacemaker. She has practiced yoga on a chair before and would like to start again now. Is that problematic? Is there anything to consider?"