Category: Awareness

Of Carnations And Innocence

27 september 202224 november 2022 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

I neglected carnations for decades. My perception of them was very much disturbed by past experiences that go back to my childhood. These days, I am deeply touched by their beauty and variety. I just recently discovered their aromatic and sweet smell. Part of my being has changed and therefore…

Of Thinking And Feeling

2 september 202218 november 2022 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

I love teaching yoga. I then talk a lot about feeling. My enthusiasm accelerates with every new student who wants to learn and understand how one can transform the shapes that a lot of people identify as yoga, into the state of being that one can consider “yoga”. Based on…

Of Healing And Change

16 augustus 202218 november 2022 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

I love Angel cards. Do you know these tiny affirmation cards? At the first day of our Summer vacation in the beautiful Rhodope Mountains in the south of Bulgaria, I had pulled the HEALING card.Being four weeks away from duties meant no teaching or coaching for four weeks. Spending 4…

Of Yoga And Labels

15 augustus 202218 november 2022 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

Today was the last day of our Summer break. From tomorrow on, all classes at the Yogashala will continue! You are welcome to explore the delicate relationship between strength and softness, effort and allowing on the yoga mat. Our focus is to guide you directly and as gracefully as possible in…

The Wind of Change

20 januari 202129 september 2022 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

I wrote this post "The Wind of Change" in January 2021. We are in another lockdown and only get to see each other through Zoom meetings with its screen images. It is my intention to reconnect with everyone who practices Dynamic yoga with me by sharing the latest developments regarding…

BURN OUT and the yoga healing formula

22 september 202022 maart 2021 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

BURN OUT. None of us got an idea what it feels like until you fit the profile. I've been there myself and it took me years to recover and, most of all, consequently implement the necessary changes to prevent myself from ending up there repeatedly. It's easier to fall back…

My roots. My kin. Me.

18 augustus 202022 maart 2021 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

Chris and I are on vacation. It is not the usual 3-week Summer break we had been taking for many years in a row. It's a short stay in the far West of Germany, enjoying the hospitality of welcoming friends, the stillness in the forests with its many shades of…

Looking through new eyes

24 juli 202022 maart 2021 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

The journey of true discovery lies not in finding new lands but in looking through new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust I’ve been feeling newly inspired in my yoga teachings lately. It is not that I discovered something new in yoga land. Instead, I received the silent invitation to look with…

Quiet, slow, simple and accessible (a lockdown report)

16 juli 202022 maart 2021 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

With the start of the Covid-19 lockdown mid March, I could perceive a clear relief at the level of my nervous system. It was a response to changes that came with the lockdown.It was less noisy in the streets and public transport had reduced its frequency. It sometimes was even…

FEELING DEEPLY at the hairdresser

7 juni 202022 maart 2021 by Anke Mein

Anke Mein

I love going to the hairdresser. It is one of the events every couple of months that I really look forward to. After the months of lockdown, last Friday it was hairdresser-day for me. The preparation I went to a place that I had been before but got assigned to…

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