The CEO chakra – Manipura

What does the city of jewels, CEO’s and our body have in common? They are all connected with our third Chakra, the Manipura chakra. The third chakra, Manipura, is located in the spine behind the navel. The word “mani” means gem and “pura” means city – city of jewels. The element for this chakra is [...]

Asanas for J Lo

Not only J.Lo  has an exaggerated and hyperextended lumbar curve of the spine at the vertebrae L1-L5 ant that is called Lordosis. Lordosis is a condition where the muscles of the abdomen tend to be weak and the hamstrings and lower back muscles have become shortened and has hardened. To help to strengthen the muscles [...]

Why Sirsasana?

Why Sirsasana? How does inversions like Sirsasana affect our body? For the first time in my life I did head stand, I loved it and I always long to do the head stand because it makes me feel refreshed and it gives med a sort of balance in both my body and mind. But how [...]

The 8 limbs – no shortcuts!

The path Hatha and Raja yoga is the path of systematic analysis and control of the mind and body. The path is divided into 8 limbs, stages by Patanjali Makarishi in his Yoga Sutras. The 8 limbs are also called Ashtanga (Ashta is eight in Sanskrit and anga is division). I was just realizing the [...]

The 4 paths of Yoga

Over the centuries 4 different paths within Yoga have developed. As we all have different personalities we also prefer different ways to practisise. But to get most out of yoga it should be a mix of the four different paths, a synthesis of the four main paths. Keep one preferred path but a combination of [...]

Awareness of the 3 Yogi diets

As Yoga means union it also includes a union with what you eat and digest, we are unified with the environment and with each other. Your whole body system and mind should strive to reach a balanced and harmonic state. Yoga develops our pure inner nature and the diet plays an important roll. The food [...]

Trikonasana – technical description

To describe all the different movements of your body while performing an asana you can do it the technical way using so called Movement Terminology. There are terms for each kind of movement. To describe a movement of your arm upwards from your body, means the arm is in a flexion, you decrease the angel [...]