Dynamic Mindfulness Yoga

19/11/2025

A New Chapter for Dynamic Mindfulness

A message from our Founder, Tatjana Mesar

Hello friends,

I’m writing to you today to share some important news about the future of Dynamic Mindfulness.

After a decade of nurturing the Dynamic Mindfulness Foundational Training since I started it in 2014, the time has come for me to pass the torch. I am thrilled to announce that the training will now be in the capable hands of two excellent teachers: Katya Abramkina and Rijk Kruijer.
Having both completed their Advanced Teacher Training with me, Katya and Rijk have proven themselves to be not only wonderful practitioners but also heartfelt and skilled guides. With over 140 Dynamic Mindfulness graduates, I feel completely confident that this vibrant practice is being passed to a new generation who will honor its roots and help it grow in new ways.

So, what’s next for me?

I am now deepening my own path, completing my training as a Dharma Teacher at the Chan Center in Croatia. If you’re looking for me, you’ll most likely find me there, sitting in silence or chanting on a meditation retreat. It feels like the natural next step in my own journey.

With Immense Gratitude

To every single one of you who has been part of this journey—whether you took one class, a workshop, or a full teacher training—thank you. You helped build this community, and you are the reason this practice has thrived.

I am so excited to see how Katya and Rijk will steward Dynamic Mindfulness forward. Please join me in supporting them as they begin this new chapter!
With so much love and appreciation,
Tatjana

P.S. If you’d like to stay connected and follow my new endeavors, especially my work in Croatia, you can follow me at: https://substack.com/. To stay updated on the Dynamic Mindfulness Foundational Training, be sure to continue following Katya and Rijk!

02/09/2024

It’s time to roll out your mats again!

We are excited to announce that Gentle Flow class with Tatjana Mesar Yoga is restarting today at 18:30 after our summer break! Time to dust off those mats and shake off the fascia cobwebs.

P.S. To kick off the new season, We're offering a special 24-hour sale with 50% off Lexicon of Dynamic Mindfulness Yoga Poses. It’s the perfect reference manual for deepening your practice. You can purchase it for 75 € - the offer starts now, so don’t miss out!

Welcome! For practical reasons, we have organized this lexicon in groups of Standing Poses, Spinal Extension, Forwards Bends, Twists, Inversions, Balancing Poses, Core Work and Hip Work but poses usually belong to more than one group. Explore by expanding a group of poses and then click on the name....

27/06/2024

Happy faces after completing advanced training module last week with lead teacher Tatjana Mesar Yoga and a wonderful guest teacher Karmen Mihalinec from Croatia

Katy, Rijk and Michela have completed all the (demanding) requirements and became certified advanced Dynamic Mindfulness teachers.
Congratulations to all! It was a great week together👏👏👏❤️

07/05/2024

'My decision to dedicate more than 7 months for the 200-hour yoga teacher training at Dynamic Mindfulness Yoga have opened my perspectives tremendously. I can feel my mind, my body, stay more present and focused. The school follows Buddhism teaching which encourages students to learn by testing things by themselves with no blind belief. We appreciate yoga movements which are aligned with the body, the condition of our body. Students are encouraged to listen to their bodies, stay mindful and mediate at their own. The materials are very informative and insightful in not only philosophy but also in anatomic yoga. Teachers are superb friendly, supportive, creative and knowledgeable. Thank you very much for everything. And I highly recommend for anyone!' Thi Ha

Applications for our next 200hr YTT that starts in September are now open!

200-hour yoga teacher training Berlin is certified by Yoga Alliance. Experienced faculty + a comprehensive training manual in English.

03/01/2024

Frosty tree branches, January light & the silence that only fresh snow brings. We wish that you’ve had a peaceful landing into 2024.

May you be happy.

May you be healthy.

May you be safe.

May you live with ease.

We appreciate you,
Dynamic Mindfulness Team

18/12/2023

❣️❣️ Follow your joy ❣️❣️

“How did you start to teach classes ? “Did you start to teach as soon as you graduated?”

“How is it going?”

This year I’ve had many insightful talks with our recent and senior graduates. Over a tea, wine, via Zoom, at a cafe, on the phone, in written email, during a retreat or a training weekend.

For new-born yoga teachers the field is still mysterious and unknown. Some of us have been beating the path for some time already. Yet, the F.A.Q circles around same topics, believe or not.

How did it start and how is it going?

This year, with a happy heart I’ve been following how people have started their own retreats, kicked off bunch of new classes and created intriguing concepts and events. I’ve received beautifully written newsletters in my inbox, read powerful and wise words in blog posts and browsed through new websites. There’s been career shifts and moves to different countries I’ve been privileged to witness close by. New projects and jobs. More calm in one’s daily life. Deeper breaths. More shaking and less pain.

The thing is: some of these happened during the training or seconds after graduation and some took years of honing.

The common nominator I see is joy. And that’s a good one to think when honing your offerings and getting out there (or not) again next year 😌

You don’t need to start to teach right away. But you might be too excited not to. You don’t need to force out a newsletter. But if you have something valuable to say, please do. You can take break from teaching, do something else and get back to it later. You can teach classes only to your mum and friends. You can teach only yourself if you decide so! You can create heaps of reels if it’s inspiring , but if it takes the focus from whats important for you, does it make sense?

Your pace, place, space! Practice, class, presence!

As long as you follow your joy ❣️❣️❣️

I think joy keeps our offerings fresh, compassionate and authentic.

With joy,
Anna, pictured after community meditation session here at IG live. Feeling joyful.

12/12/2023

Year 2023 is coming to an end! So many nice memories from this year, let’s start with January - March:

heartwarming moments shared online and in person, many vision boards crafted, mindful assists given, mornings, days and evenings on a mat, many joyful smiles, plants shared, flowers and graduate certificates given ❤️❤️❤️

Let’s check this week what else happened this year❣️

Did you have your favorite moment with Dynamic Mindfulness community this year? :)

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12/12/2023

Sign to learn everything that awaits for you when you start your 200 hrs foundational yoga teacher training with us in January 2024 🤍

Link to join in the comments. Let’s meet online 16.12.2023 10:30 (CET) ❣️

04/12/2023

There is a concept in Zen Buddhism known as shoshin, which means “beginner’s mind.” Shoshin refers to the idea of letting go of your preconceptions and having an attitude of openness when studying a subject 👀

When you are a true beginner, your mind is empty and open. You’re willing to learn and consider all pieces of information, like a child discovering something for the first time. As you develop knowledge and expertise, however, your mind naturally becomes more closed. You tend to think, “I already know how to do this” and you become less open to new information🧠

There is a danger that comes with expertise. We tend to block the information that disagrees with what we learned previously and yield to the information that confirms our current approach!

Beginner’s mind can keep our yoga practice (and life!) interesting and alive. Each pose is a new experience. Each breath is a new beginning. Each meeting is a new encounter. We take nothing for granted.

We stop living on default mode, on automatic pilot. We also stop moving in an unconscious manner, just cruising through a set sequence of poses that provides us with us sense of control over the body. Instead, our curiosity takes us deeper and deeper, to increasingly refined experiences.

Slide for reminders how to practice seeing life with wonder 💫✨

03/12/2023

Sonya Renee Taylor is an author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, an artist and a founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love.
In her book: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, she lays out her radical self-love vision, arguing that all people arrive on this planet in a state of self-love before internalizing messages of shame and injustice from systems of oppression.

Sonya Renee Taylor suggests that healing takes place through reconnecting with our inherent divine enoughness, transforming how we live in and relate to both our bodies and the bodies of others.

At Dynamic Mindfulness, we like to read. We include authors in the field of body politics and feminism to our suggested reading list too, not only yoga books. Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love is one of them 📚

Enjoy your Sunday ❄️

30/11/2023

"Living simply is the primary way everyone can resist greed every day. We can all resist the temptation of greed. We can work to change public policy, electing leaders who are honest and progressive. We can turn off the television set. We can show respect for love. To save our planet we can stop thoughtless waste. We can recycle and support ecologically advanced survival strategies. All these gestures show a respect and gratitude for life. When we value the delaying of gratification and take responsibility for our actions, we simplify our emotional universe. Living simply makes loving simple. “

~ bell hooks

Simple is beautiful also during end-of-the-year, festive season hullabaloo 😎

bell hook’s All About Love is a beautiful book that explains that if we want to truly know love, we need to understand it not just as a feeling, but also as a verb. hook’s suggested a definition shared by many psychologists and theorists before her: that love is the active nurturing of spiritual growth in ourselves and others.

At Dynamic Mindfulness, we like to read. We include authors from different fields into our suggested reading list too, not only yoga books. bell hooks is one of the authors we cherish and suggest to get familiar with.

27/11/2023

What seeds do you water? 🌱💧

Emotions are neither right nor wrong within the field of mindfulness practice. You are not trying to avoid emotions, or to have some kinds of emotions and not others.

Allow them to exist as they arise, without the additional complications of judgement, evaluation, preferences, aversion, desires, clinging, resistance or other reactions.

As you watch your feelings appearing and disappearing, flowing through your inner landscape, you can discern if they're wholesome, unwholesome or neutral.Mindfulness is the practice of honestly being aware of what happens to you and how you react to it.

Emotional maturity comes, not from the absence of emotions, but from seeing them clearly.

You can then choose which feelings you grow in your inner garden. What seeds do you water? Are you watering your anger by continuing with the negative narratives?

Or are you cultivating a kind and compassionate heart by seeking the bigger picture? Which one actually feels better and brings more harmony to your immediate surroundings? 🤍

Our integration of mindfulness meditation to our trainings is a lovely starting point to start tending your inner garden. We have free info sesh this Wedsneday, online! Tune in🌱