NordwandYoga

next week back with you 🍒

numbness, more stillness
thoughts, more senses
drifting, more deciding
reacting, more relating
speaking, more listening
producing, more creating
analyzing, more experiencing

inviting water (to plenty of fire)
and courage (to plenty of fear)
and nurture
to nature

Starting this year with two delicious classes at !

💥Mondays / Yang to Yin / 8:15 pm
💥 Tuesdays / Soul Flow / 6:30 pm

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Since you asked…
So many of you have asked me to share my Sp***** Playlist with you, as you loved the songs that made our Flow so enjoyable.
I love the artists and the music they make, so here are all the songs I’m currently playing. If you like them, please consider to support the artist directly and buy their music instead of using this exploitative streaming service ;) xx Love to yoke with you!

“What are your eyes doing right now?” When a teacher asked this question during asana practice a few years ago it hit me like lightning - I was looking around, letting my gaze wander, my eyes were wildly busy. These eye movements were directly impacting my busy mind and subsequently my thoughts were making my eyes wander even more.
“Keep your gaze steady. Wherever your eyes go, let it have meaning” the teacher said. And when I chose to gaze at my navel or the tip of my nose or the palm of my hand, with intention but with gentleness too, there it was - Concentration, dharana. I was given the tool to create capacity of experiencing the shape, not just executing it. This tool is Drishti दृष्टि.

Come and practice with me online and offline - schedule in bio 🤍

Classes this week 🌾
TUE / 8:oo am /
THU / 6:3o am /
FRI / 9:oo am /

There’s a calm courage about strong winds. A force that is unapologetic but crisp and clear, never incomprehensible.

Classes next week:

TUE / 8:oo am /
WED / 6:45 pm /
THU / 6:3o am /

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Tuesdays 8am and Fridays 9am 🌶 Fold and unfold. Inform your shapes with your breath.
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Pratyāhāra translates into ‘withdrawal of the senses’ and is one of the eight limbs of yoga. I try to imagine what it might have meant for the yoginis and yogis who practiced hundreds of years ago. For them their eyes might have been looking at a flower, their ears might have heard children playing, their nose might have smelled breakfast being prepared, their mouth watering and their skin might have felt the warmth of the sun.
For them pratyāhāra might have meant not seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling all of this, once they immersed in their movement and breath. Once they practiced yoga. Pratyāhāra, the withdrawal of these sensory perceptions would have been the line into meditation.

Yoginis and Yogis of today!! I feel that we need to look at this concept, considering the specifics of our time. Do you look at a flower, hear children play, smell food and feel the sun on your skin? Maybe yes, but maybe your eyes and ears are so absorbed by your phone and computer and TV screens that in a weird and twisted way all our senses are withdrawn, are swallowed alive by whatever is grabbing our attention on those screens.

When I practice these days, I don’t feel like ‘withdrawing’ from my sensory perceptions. In fact, there is an utter need to re-embody them on my yoga mat. To free them from the screens that I look at.

Come and join me this week at for some yoga reclaiming our perception of body and breath through the wonderful senses we have!
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THURSDAY
12:30-13:30 VINYASA FLOW (de)
19:00-20:00 POWER YOGA (en)

Some say when you fly, the soul needs a little while to travel the same distance. It needs to catch up with the physical body shooting through the air at an unusual speed.
Whenever I do the big lap around the globe to be with my loved ones in Melbourne or Berlin, I feel that little disruption and I need to ground myself.

Feel whatever touches the earth.
Exhale - breathe down as if your body grows roots .
Inhale - receive that, which is returning to you breath by breath. Let the soul catch up with the stable home of your body.

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Melbourne, I wish I didn’t have to leave so soon! My heart is a little broken when thinking about not seeing my loved ones over there for a while.
But I can’t wait to return to my yoga fams for teaching 🔥
Watch this space for the upcoming schedule! # # #

Bye Berlin ❤️‍🩹 Hi Melbourne ❤️‍🔥
With my lovely community close to my heart I‘m leaving for Melbourne for a bit!

Hit me up if you’re looking for private classes, online or offline X

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Join me for my last two online flows tomorrow morning

7.00 am Early Rise Flow
8.30 am Magic Morning Flow

I‘ll be back in Melbourne for a bit and will deeply miss this magical place with the best team I could dream of. Hope to see you all soon 🔥

Full Moon Soul Flow
On Wednesday 26th of May
Online

Come and sense
The Luna
The ruler of the night sky
Bringing to light what was under the surface

That which senses and intuits
The feeling nature
The unconscious
The eternal round
The invisible
To receive and reflect
To relate and respond

The psychosomatic sensation of the self.

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