Mar 25 | New art at the yoga school

At the moment, the entire Amsterdamsestraatweg is one big sandbox, and that will continue for a while. It will undoubtedly be beautiful, but we have already started ‘making the ASW great again’. The mailbox still needs to be spruced up, and some new greenery could be...

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....

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...

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...