Facing changes, and being the change
Flow with changes, in and out
Personal development
From love life to a life of love…
The four shapes of love “Everything we do or think is either an expression of love or a call for love.” Love represents the most essential quality that one can share with others and experience within. Yet most of us […]
Yoga: a practice of selfishness or selflessness?
“Close your eyes and start listening to your breath.” Nowadays, most yoga classes will start with a guidance along this line. Indeed, the yoga we practice today can be described mainly as a series of postures one would do on […]
You are already a teacher
”om namah shivaya gurave” I recognize the teacher within (from the Shiva invocation chant) Two weekends ago, my colleague Nicolai Boas and I kicked off our joined Yoga Teacher training in Copenhagen. We had so much fun, and I felt […]
What is really true?
Satya, in Sanskrit (the ancient language in which most yoga scriptures were written), means truthfulness. It is one of the virtues (or yamas) the old sages advised yogis to cultivate. Truth is a funny concept. I don’t know about you, […]
A practitioner’s issue: coming back
The coming back problem You sit, let’s say for 10 or 20 minutes, and focus on your breath or a mantra. Suddenly, you notice that your attention has traveled 1000 km away, three months ago, or two years ahead, and […]
Nothing is missing
I hope this note finds you well and ready for summer. We just passed solstice on June 21st and, with it, the moment where summer officially starts and when daylight starts decreasing again… This is a time that is inviting […]
Acceptance
How do you look at, or even talk to, yourself? Like you probably did, I grew up with mirrors in my house. Throughout the years, I learned to get to know myself through the mirror – yet mostly, and obviously, […]
Integrating the opposites
As you probably have heard before, the word “yoga” originally comes from “yoking;” the union, the bringing together of apparent opposites such as body and mind, material and spiritual, yin and yang, etc. Personally, I like to see yoga as […]
Finding Madhya – the place of balance
What an interesting time we are living. On the one hand, I feel like many people happily went “back to normal” and forgot the numerous changes and adaptations we have had to make in the recent years… and are still […]
