Vinyasa and Yin Yoga with Kat

Take me back 🥰

At peace.

Surround yourself with those who appreciate your presence, your time and your love. ✨

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❤️

✨ Finding joy and happiness in any kind of situation. ✨

I never wanted to be a single mum.

I never saw myself returning to where I was born.

I’ve spent months of seeing my life the way it turned out as a big failure, as a big step backwards.

Slowly, this turned into a state of acceptance. A state of taking a break from asking myself “what if?”. A state of equanimity.

From this state of inner peace, I was finally able to like, to love my new life, my situation.

Today, seen from the outside, my situation is exactly the same as it was almost 2 years ago. The only thing that has changed is my attitude towards it.

Today, I wouldn’t want to change a single peace of my life. There’s nowhere else that I’d want be be, with no other people in my life than those who are by my side right now, loving, valuing and supporting me just as I am, unconditionally.

What a journey - an inner journey. Forever grateful and feeling blessed for every day of this journey.✨

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone - just love yourself, then you will be loved. ❤️

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*** Happy Twists 😃 ***

Diese Woche geht es in den meisten unserer Stunden um Drehungen, auch als Twists bekannt - vor allem nach den Feiertagen, viel Sitzen, Essen und Trinken kann das sehr wohltuend und nützlich sein! 😉

Hier bekommt ihr einen kurzen Überblick über die positiven Auswirkungen von Drehhaltungen:

1. Detox: Durch die Drehbewegung wird kurzzeitig die Blutzufuhr der Verdauungsorgane gestoppt. Nach dem Loslassen der Haltung strömt wieder verstärkt frisches Blut in die Organe, was dabei helfen kann, die Zellen von Angestautem und Unnützem zu befreien.

2. Anregung der Verdauung: Wie oben genannt, werden die Verdauungsorgane mit frischem Blut versorgt und zugleich wird der gesamte Verdauungsapparat in Bewegung gebracht, was stimulierende Auswirkungen auf die Verdauung haben kann.

3. Mobilisierung der Wirbelsäule: Wie der Name bereits sagt, drehen wir die Wirbelsäule und können dadurch ihre Bewegungsmöglichkeiten wiederherstellen oder verbessern.

4. Minderung von Rückenschmerzen: Twists dehnen und kräftigen die Rückenmuskulatur, was uns dabei helfen kann, unangenehme Rückenschmerzen, die durch unseren Alltag bedingt sind, zu lindern.

5. Loslassen von Stress und Ängsten: Durch Drehhaltungen werden Rücken, Schultern und Brust geöffnet, was uns im übertragenen Sinne auch dabei hilft, uns selbst zu öffnen und angestaute Ängste und Anspannungen loszulassen.

Na, findet ihr bei bei einem (oder mehreren) dieser 5 Punkte wieder? 🙌🏼

Dann schaut diese Woche bei einem unserer Kurse vorbei!

Das komplette Programm findet ihr unter www.theyogabubble.net/Kursplan

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Danke für dein strahlendes Happy Twist-Lächeln 😄🙏🏼

With an open heart towards the New Year ❤️✨

When I look back to where I was exactly one year ago, it didn’t feel the same at all. I was scared and worried about the year to come, about the new challenges coming up, full of doubts if I was going to be able to manage raising my little son alone and running a yoga studio .studio at the same time, all of this after having lived in another country for 11 years and feeling almost like a stranger in my own home country.
Fortunately, life didn’t give me much time to think too much of all of this, so I just had to do it. Jumping straight into it and trusting in the fact that intuitively, I was going to do the right things and that my actions were going to be aligned with what surrounded me. Not everything worked out, not everything went perfectly well, and there was more than one moment where I struggled and doubted again - but thanks to passion and love for what I do, thanks to the strength I got from being a single mom and above all thanks to incredibly strong and loving people supporting me, I went on each time and am more than ever in love with what I’m doing. ☺️❤️🙏🏼

Wishing you all that the same energy may thrive you and help you through moments where not everything is running perfectly well, and wishing you a beautiful start into the next year. ✨❤️

Setting boundaries.

One of my greatest challenges over the past few years, in my private and in my professional life.

That need of having a good and harmonious relationship with each and everyone, pleasing everyone, not angering anyone, being loved by everyone - which led to forgetting my own self-worth.

Slowly (very very slowly 😉), things start to change. I start realizing that I don’t need to be loved by everyone, and not agreeing or not saying yes to everything won’t make the world stop turning around - but it will save me a lot of energy and increase the consciousness of my own worth and strength, it will increase the respect and love I’m having for myself.

Three things have helped me realizing this: the mental and also physical strength I’ve been developing thanks to yoga over the past years, the fact of running my own yoga studio and of taking responsibility for a small enterprise, and above all my little sunshine Noah to whom I’m dedicating most of my energy since 1 1/2 years. ❤️

Who can relate?

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So ham - I am that.

The meditation class I’ve been guiding at .studio yesterday was about that mantra (thanks my dear for your inspiration 🙏🏼😘).
It was interesting to reflect once again on how often we define ourselves through other things or people, through our profession, our body, our mind, our friends, our partner, our number of followers on Instagram, …the list is endless.
It was a nice reminder to let go of all of that from time to time (or more often actually 😉) and to just be, to just exist. Nothing else is needed to know who we are.

I am that - So ham.

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How big can a heart be?

I thought I’d had already experienced true love, the one where you tell someone you love him/her more than anything else. It was true.

And yet, all of this has been far away from the love I’m feeling right now for my little boy, there’s nothing that compares to it. An unconditional, innocent love, a love teaching me again how to love without fear of getting hurt. A love that is growing bigger every day, surprising me more and more every day of what is possible to be felt, so I’m asking myself: how big can a heart be to hold so much love? I hope it’s really really big because there’s so much more to come yet and I can’t wait. ❤️

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Finding stillness. Even when things are going upside down.

Being a single parent and running your own little company at the same time can be quite life-filling. Nights are still not without interruptions, days are starting early, every single minute is filled with either playing, feeding & taking care of baby boy (not so baby anymore actually 🥲), communicating for and organizing my business and (if there’s time 😜) trying to keep our apartment more or less clean.
I’ve been trying to manage it by applying multi-tasking but it just doesn’t work for me, it’s making me feel even more stressed and not satisfied with what I’m doing because everything feels only half done. Which obviously means that quite often, I’m not getting done with all the things I’ve had on my to do list - and I’m learning to more and more be ok with it.

So I’m trying to find more stillness, more space within all these turbulent moments. Being more present and conscious with every action I’m taking and movement I’m making, with every minute spent with my loved ones. Stopping just for 5 seconds to take a deep breath.
This also includes spending less time on social media because it is definitely a huge distraction which makes me feel not present at all. I’m still loving it, staying in contact with amazing and inspiring people, but it’s getting less and less important and I think this is ok. ☺️

Dear parents and busy people, how are you feeling about it? What’s your approach?

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1 year wiser 😁😉

Looking towards this new year of my life with calm and no concrete expectations- besides enjoying every day to its fullest and being grateful for Noah, my family, my closest friends and all the beautiful encounters and experiences that may come up.

I used to be someone who had a concrete plan for her life, for how my family should look like, how my work should look like, how my daily routine should look like when I’m approaching a certain age.
And nothing, truly NOTHING of it is the case right now! 😂🤪

But guess what…I’m still happy! Or maybe even happier than I would have been if life had happened like I planned it to. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thank you life for all the amazing lessons you’re teaching me, for the up’s and downs, for the laughters and tears, the sun and the rain, all the dances and all the struggles.

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Just chillin’ 😎

*** IG lives! ***

Last day of regular teaching for me today before a 4 weeks break. 🤗
It’s been almost 3 years that I haven’t really been on holidays, so I’m really looking forward to it - especially as it’s going to be the first time with Noah by my side. 🥰 Ok, mornings will still start at 6 am 😂 but I’m really looking forward to this time with a slower rythm, maybe taking time for a more regular morning practice for myself.

I’m going to offer some free IG lives over .studio account which will be in German. German yogis, stay tuned! 🙌🏼

Thinking of also sharing other parts of my morning practice with all of you (in English or French?) - who’s interested? ❤️

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