”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 […]
At the heart of yoga is… yes, you guessed. The Heart. The Heart (capital H) was described by ancient sages millennia ago as humans’ center of wisdom, inner intelligence, and deep fulfilment. Over the years, through language and diverse societal […]
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 […]
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, […]
Don’t know you, but spring is my favorite time of the year.A time of renewal, re-opening, and rediscovery of how the brighter days feel like. Now, at the threshold between the dark to the bright, nature invites us to make […]
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 […]
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 […]
Being at the water always inspires me. Simply the way the sky melts into the ocean, how they “speak” to and dance with each other. Yoga means union – ”yoke” or bringing together. Behind the philosophy of yoga, we are […]
A few weeks ago, I attended a silent meditation retreat in South Portugal. Although I have been meditating more or less daily for a good ten years now, this retreat was a game changer for me and my practice. The […]
Right now, what preoccupies you? The mind has a natural tendency to be alert to what is not functioning and might be a threat for the future. Indeed, humans’ reproduction has been dependent on our ancestors’ capacity to notice and […]
