Iyengar Yoga bewegt

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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09/11/2025

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07/11/2025

Das hat uns diese Woche auch beschäftigt! 🙏

Prasarit Padottanasana - Inner groins lift with the help of belts and tressler

Do not practise for the pleasantness of the mind (sukha), Remember sukhanusayi rägah. Let not your aim to practise be restricted to removing pain. Let the aim in practice be to experience oneness in body, mind and self. Understand and reach that level where you remove differences between body and mind, mind and intelligence and intelligence and self. You have lo experience this non-dualistic state. Continue sadhana in order to remove the impurities and the essence of knowledge to radiate in glory, yogangänusthanat asuddhiksaye jnanadiptih avivekakhyateh (Y.S, II.28). Like the rays of the sun which cleanse the atmosphere, let your intellectual light through yoga remove the darkness that covers the intellect of the head and intelligence of the heart.
BKS Iyengar
Astadala Yogmala

03/11/2025

"You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them."

BKS Iyengar, Light on Life 🙏

29/10/2025