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Iyengar’s ‘Immunity Sequence’: yoga to support your immunity
Do you want to practice this immunity sequence but aren't sure how to adjust the poses? 'Our' dear Nadia (in our shirt!) put a lot of effort into putting together a series of explainer videos - during a Covid lockdown in the US - in which she takes you through all the...
Aug 22 | Back to school & getting better
This is "back to school" season. New students arrive in Utrecht, working people come back from vacation, and the Hema is full of children buying diaries, wrapping paper and other school supplies. Full of anticipation, looking forward to the new, unknown. Also here at...
Summer 22 | Hiske’s health
Why do you actually do yoga? If you're young, healthy and balanced? What is the need to constantly subject yourself to a regime of watching your body in stillness and movement? You may think you're doing yoga to be able to take a nice selfie, in impressive poses. Or...
Santosha – contentment
very small philosophy lesson. Contentment - Santosha in Sanskrit - is one of the niyamas. Those are the 'commandments' that talk about how you relate to yourself. There are 5: purity (śaucha), contentment (santosha), self-discipline (tapas), self-study (svādyāya) and...
Against the flow: Pratipaksha Bhavana
How easy is it to have opinions about literally everything? Especially now that there is so much current news that seems to affect our lives so directly. But those opinions often only bring you unrest and unhappiness. The Yoga Sutras give a technique that you can...
Use support when you need it.
Yoga in times of Covid Every day you wake up to another day of 'the same'. The movie Groundhog Day pops into your mind. Work, eat, teach your children, play and sleep in the same building. A walk with a friend as the highlight of your week. Or maybe you have a job...
Take a breath
Breath is a very simple and natural process. Such a simple thing - how could you possibly get it wrong? Everybody does it, all the time. You can't 'forget' about breathing because obviously, you'd die. The tricky thing is, though, that breathing is controlled both...