Iyengar Yoga bewegt

04/12/2025

29/11/2025

Pranasamstag am 06.12. & Yogasonntag am 14.12.25 🧘‍♂️ - wir feiern Gurujis Geburtstags mit einer Garam Masala Sequenz und sitzen hinterher noch etwas gemütlich beisammen https://mailchi.mp/f8c62ba681d5/yogasonntagdezember2025

28/11/2025

26/11/2025

"Just by practicing gratitude, we can find happiness. We must be grateful to our ancestors, our parents, our teachers, our friends, the earth, the sky, the trees, the grass, the animals, the soil, the stones. Looking at the sunlight or at the forest, we feel gratitude. Looking at our breakfast, we feel gratitude. When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life."
-Thich Nhat Hanh (Peace Is This Moment)

19/11/2025

“While it appears that Parsvottanasana is one of the easier asanas, the final asana is a culmination of the varied movements of stretching, twisting, contracting and expanding, as well as the convex and concave action of the spine. One has to learn to coordinate these opposing movements and to establish a dialogue between the body, mind, senses and intellect for a unified and harmonious experience.

Through the study of asana we develop the twin tools of sensitivity and understanding. We use them as spade and shovel to plough the soil of the elemental body from the outermost physical level to the subtlest reaches of the consciousness.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says:

"Yoga-sthah kuru karmäni sangam tyaktva dhananjaya I
Siddhy-asiddhyoh samo bhütva samatvam yoga ucyate II"
(Bhagavad Gita 2.48)

"Be immersed in yoga and work without desiring the fruits of your labour; act with equanimity in the face of success or failure; for this inner poise, or the state of equilibrium, is yoga."

The practice of this simple yet profound asana paves the way for equilibrium of the body, mind and intellect.”

BKS Iyengar
Arogya Yoga

18/11/2025

Today marks the Jayanti of Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (November 18, 1888 – February 28, 1989), a profoundly influential yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer, and scholar who is credited with the revival and renewal of Hatha Yoga, not only as a spiritual practice, which remains paramount, but also as a physical and therapeutic discipline grounded in the Yoga Sutras and other classical yoga texts. I offer my most reverential pranams to the great Yogacharya 🙏🙏🙏.

Shri Krishnamacharya was adept in all six Vedic darśanas, or Indian philosophies. Under the patronage of the King of Mysore, Krishna Raja Wodiyar IV, Shri Krishnamacharya traveled extensively throughout India, delivering lectures and demonstrations to promote yoga, including remarkable feats such as apparently stopping his heartbeat. His fundamental teaching principle was 'Teach what is appropriate for an individual.' While revered globally as a Yogacharya, in India, Krishnamacharya is also recognized as a healer who drew from both ayurvedic and yogic traditions. He authored four books on yoga – Yoga Makaranda (1934), Yogaasanagalu (c. 1941), Yoga Rahasya, and Yogavalli (Chapter 1 – 1988) – as well as several essays and poetic compositions. Shri Krishnamacharya's students included many of yoga's most renowned and influential teachers: Indra Devi (1899–2002); K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009); B. K. S. Iyengar (1918-2014); his son T. K. V. Desikachar (1938-2016); Srivatsa Ramaswami (born 1939); and A. G. Mohan (born 1945). He and his students have significantly influenced the practice of Hatha Yoga as we know it today.

18/11/2025

Your Pelvis Can’t Adjust?

When the pelvis doesn’t adjust easily into a neutral or centered state, two key factors are usually at play:

1️⃣ Stiffness in the Front Thighs (Quadriceps)
- Tight quadriceps resist bending, preventing the pelvis from positioning correctly.
- This stiffness often forces the back to overwork or roll as a compensation.
- When the thighs “hold back,” the pelvis can’t follow through smoothly during bending or leaning actions.

2️⃣ Lack of Support from the Pelvic Floor & Abdomen
- Without muscular support from the lower abdomen and pelvic floor, maintaining a stable pelvic position becomes difficult.
- When these areas engage, controlling leg and pelvic movement becomes more natural and efficient.
- In lying postures, weak support here makes centering the pelvis even more challenging.

💡 Key Insight:
✨ Freedom of the pelvis isn’t just about stretching the back — it’s about releasing stiffness in the thighs and awakening supportive structures in the abdomen and pelvic floor.
✨ When stiffness decreases and support increases, pelvic alignment becomes both achievable and sustainable.

What’s harder for you: Releasing stiffness or awakening support?
Where does your body “hold back” the most? Share below.

14/11/2025

Rooted in the path of karma yoga (the yoga of action), sevā asks us to show up in the world with empathy, presence, and intention. Through selfless service, we act not from ego but from the understanding that our lives are deeply interconnected.

Sevā isn’t about volunteerism as virtue signaling or free labor disguised as “opportunity”—two modern distortions that can strip this practice of its heart. Instead, yoga reminds us that sevā is a way of honoring our dharma (deep purpose).

When our actions arise from dharma and are offered without attachment to outcome, sevā becomes a living expression of yoga.

It’s the recognition that when we uplift others, we all rise.⁠
As the Rig Veda teaches: vasudhāiva kuṭumbakaṃ—the world is one family.⁠ 💛⁠

Read the full reflection by Anjali Rao:

https://yogainternational.com/article/view/how-we-can-use-karma-yoga-to-uplift-our-communities/

13/11/2025

The mat doesn’t ask you to be strong, flexible, or flawless.
It asks you to be honest.
To show up as you are, to feel what you feel, and to move from truth rather than expectation.
As teachers, we can help our students remember that yoga isn’t a performance, it’s a practice of presence.

10/11/2025

You are not incapable 🧡

Cheers, Steph x

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