Summer 2022 – 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...

August 2022 – 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....

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),...

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...