17. Teil verschiedene Yoga Arten: Mindfulness YogaPart 17 different Yoga Styles: Mindfulness Yoga

February 05, 2016 by Patricia Staffa in Berlin, column, Kolumne, Yoga Art, Yoga style, Mindfulness Yoga

By Tatjana Mesar, a founder of Dynamic Mindfulness:

"Through my years of studying and practicing yoga, meditation and shiatsu, I came to perceive the body as a continuum of experiences. The body doesn’t really begin or end anywhere.
I teach my students to step out of logical, compartmentalized thinking and into an experiential journey. The pose is not ‘a form to achieve’, but an expression of a journey.

16. Teil verschiedene Yoga Stile: Faszien YogaPart 16 different yoga styles: Fascia Yoga

July 29, 2015 by Patricia Staffa in Kolumne, Yoga Art, Yoga style, Yoga- Fibel, Faszien Yoga

Bei Faszien Yoga lernt man die Kunst des Yoga aus einer Ausrichtung kennen, die besonderen Wert legt auf das muskuläre Bindegewebe – die sogenannten Faszien. Hierbei sind nicht nur die weißfarbigen dünnen Muskelhüllen oder die Gelenkkapseln und deren Bänder gemeint, sondern das ganze – den Körper vom Scheitel bis zur Sohle umfassende und durchdringende – Netzwerk aus Kollagenfasern, das sich in der Entwicklungsgeschichte speziell durch Zugspannungen heraus gebildet hat.

*In Fascia Yoga you learn the art of Yoga through an approach particularly emphasising the conjunctive tissue of the muscles - the so called fascia. This does not only include the thin, white-coloured muscle-hulls, the joint-capsules and their ligaments but the entire network of collagen fibres encompassing and permeating the body from head to heel which has developed through the course of its development through tensile strain.*

15. Teil verschiedene Yoga Stile: Bhakti YogaDifferent Yoga styles, part 15: Bhakti Yoga<

December 03, 2014 by Patricia Staffa in Kolumne, Yoga Art, Yoga style, Yoga- Fibel, Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti bedeutet "Hingabe" oder Liebe und dieser Pfad beinhaltet verschiedene Praktiken um den Bhakta (den Ausübenden des Bhakti Yoga) mit dem Göttlichen zu vereinigen. Alles ist nur eine Manifestation des Göttlichen und alles andere ist bedeutungslos, also auch das Ego. Wenn der Bhakta von der göttlichen Gnade gesegnet wird, fühlt er eine ungeteilte Einheit und das nicht-duale Bewusstsein hat den Vorrang in ihm. Bhakti Yoga wird als die direkteste Methode angesehen, mit dem kosmischen Bewusstsein zu verschmelzen.

*Bhakti means “devotion” or “love” and this path contains various practices to unite the bhakta (Bhakti Yoga practitioner) with the Divine. Everything is but a manifestation of the divine and all else is meaningless, including the Ego. When the Bhakta is blessed by divine grace he feels an undivided union and non-dual consciousness prevails. Bhakti Yoga is regarded as the most direct method to merge in cosmic consciousness.*

Part 12 different Yoga styles: hoop yoga by Rebecca Halls

February 24, 2014 by Patricia Staffa in column, Kolumne, Yoga Art, Yoga style, Yoga- Fibel, hoop yoga

What is Hoop Yoga? by Rebecca Halls

Hoop Yoga is a fusion of new and old forms of somatic education; a marriage between systematic structures of asanas and pranayama and the dynamic qualities of hoop dance which stimulates our subtle anatomy. Connecting to one's own respiration, and being aware of one's central axis allows this practice to be an energising and fun dance between control and surrender.
Class begins with breath work and meditation, then transitions into a series of vinyasas where the hoop serves as a playful assistant in deepening the surrender to asana and one's own rhythm and flow of breath. Hoop Yoga stimulates our head-tail connection activating the life force (Prana/Qi), waking up the fluids and nerves in the spine to circulate new energy into organs, muscles and bones and extremities.

11. Teil verschiedene Yoga Stile: nivata yogaPart 11 different Yoga styles: nivata yoga

January 28, 2014 by Patricia Staffa in column, Kolumne, Yoga Art, Yoga- Fibel, Nivata

"Nivata Yoga steht für die lebendige Stille", sagte Katharina Middendorf zu mir, nachdem ich an einer ihre so besonderen Stunden teilnehmen durfte. Nivata Yoga ist von der Abfolge der Übungen nicht vergleichbar mit dem, was ich bisher ausprobiert habe. Die Sequenzen bei nivata sind energetisch verbunden und nicht choreographisch.

*"Nivata Yoga stands for the silence which is alive", Katharina Middendorf told me after one of her very special lessons which I was allowed to attend. Nivata Yoga cannot be compared to the styles I have tried so far, regarding the sequence of exercises. The sequences in Nivata are connected energetically, not choreographically. *

7. Teil verschiedene Yoga Stile: Yin YogaPart 7: Different kinds of Yoga:Yin Yoga

December 03, 2013 by Patricia Staffa in column, Kolumne, Yoga- Fibel

*Yin Yoga postures are more passive postures, mainly on the floor and the majority of postures equal only about three dozen or so, much less than the more popular yang like practices. Yin Yoga is unique in that you are asked to relax in the posture, soften the muscle and move closer to the bone. Yin Yoga offers a much deeper access to the body. It is not uncommon to see postures held for three to five minutes, even 20 minutes at a time. The time spent in these postures is much like time spent in meditation, and the teacher often talks the students through the postures as if they were trying to meditate. *