Iyengar Yoga bewegt

19/06/2026

12/06/2026

12/06/2026

It’s all about perspective my gal 👀✨

Cheers, Steph x

07/06/2026

Am Samstag, den 20. Juni 2026, um 11:00 Uhr machen wir mit Alex Jung, einer super netten Fotografin aus Emmendingen neue Fotos für die Yogaschule und suchen Schüler*in, die Zeit und Lust haben mitzumachen!!!

07/06/2026

Passend zum Pranasamstag nächsten Samstag! ❤️🙏

You can hear the ocean inside yourself.
Not as imagination.
Not as metaphor only.
But as the subtle sound of breath when the body becomes quiet, the chest opens, and the mind learns to observe.

Geeta S. Iyengar taught pranayama as a disciplined and subtle practice.

The body must be prepared.
The breath must be refined.
The mind must learn to watch without force.

One way to understand this approach is through three parts:
The body is the laboratory.
It provides the conditions — a quiet seat, an open chest, and a spine that can hold its length without strain.
Until the body can sit in stillness without complaint, pranayama cannot begin in earnest.

This is why asana comes first.
The breath is the experiment.
Not something to seize.
Not something to dominate.

Something to study.
Its length.
Its texture.
Its sound.
Its pauses.

The work is not to push the breath further each day.
The work is to observe it more closely.

The mind is the observer.
Not commentary.
Not impatience.
Not ambition.
Just watching.

When the mind learns to watch without interference, the breath becomes quieter, subtler, and more receptive.

Pranayama is powerful. It deserves respect.

It is not a breathing exercise to learn casually from a video or post. In the Iyengar tradition, it is introduced progressively, after the body has been prepared through consistent asana practice, and under the guidance of a qualified teacher.

What has your experience of pranayama been — difficult, quiet, surprising, or deeply calming?

05/06/2026

The mat looks harmless.

Until it starts showing you what can’t come with you anymore.

The old armor.
The old stories.
The old ways of staying safe that stopped letting you live.

Yoga doesn't always announce the change.

Sometimes you only notice it later, when the version of you that used to survive everything no longer feels like home.

03/06/2026

There are many ways to talk about the problems of our world, but one way or another, all of them have to do with polarization. We have a tendency to create narratives that divide, carrying within concepts of “us” and “them”; “good” and bad”; “right” and “wrong”; “worthy” and unworthy”. And within this set up there is not much space for tolerance, inclusion, for “holding hands”. Some of these narratives are hugely magnified into collective ones against nations and/or certain political, racial, religious, ethnic groups all having the same ending: violence (hiṃsā). The teachings of Yoga assure us on the following matter: wether individually or collectively, dividedness with others can only exist if we are divided from our own being. Only when there is a sense of disconnection from our own wholeness, there is separateness. Remember we are given the definition of Yoga in chapter one of the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (Samādhi-pāda): “yogaś citta-vṛtti- nirodhaḥ”, PYS I:2 / “When you stop identifying with your thoughts, fluctuations of the mind, then there is Yoga, identity with Self, which is Samadhi, happiness, bliss, and ecstasy (commentary by Sharon Gannon).

How can we heal the division in our world without working on the inherent division we are cultivating in our lives? how to address and heal this inner separateness? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj has put it in a beautiful way: “The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it”. One must move from thoughts to feelings, from the mind to the heart, creating a larger internal space for loving, caring and connection.

Gopala, is the child form of Krishna – “go” means “cow” and “pala” means “protector”. He is the son of Devaki, friend of the cows. Krishna means the all attractive one, he is unconditional love and in the words of Sharon Gannon, “when we recite or sing the name of God as Gopal, our hearts open and we are led by a charming young boy into the realms of heavenly delight.”. The children of this world may effectively inspire us on reconnecting to our own wise hearts, as well as our spiritual practice.
Our world is asking us to wake up to collective belonging and luckily Yoga is a pathway that can help us transforming suffering, surpassing differences and crossing the abyss.

June 2026 FOTM
Crossing the Abyss
by Maria Sousa Macedo .sousa.macedo Founder of Jivamukti Yoga Lisbon

https://jivamuktiyoga.com/fotm/crossing-the-abyss/

02/06/2026

Unser Regal mit den Hilfsmitteln zum Verkauf hat auch Nachschub bekommen: Wir führen nun auch wieder Yogadecken aus Biobaumwolle, Korkklötze und Yogabolster aus Biobaumwolle gefüllt mit Dinkelspelz, alles von Lotuscrafts!
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02/06/2026

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01/06/2026

YOUR FEET SHAPE YOUR HIPS

If the arches collapse, the effects don't stop at the feet.

The knees lose support.
The hips lose stability.
The pelvis shifts out of balance.

A lifted inner arch creates an upward action through the entire leg, helping the pelvis stay organized and supported.

Sometimes improving a standing pose starts at the foot—not the hip.

The foundation influences everything above it.