Same same but different: What a lucky chance to practice Acroyoga / Partneracro in the last weeks with so many good bases! Every base is different. Every flyer is different. Every person is different. A plurality of diversity. And everyone is special in his own way. Today I had a very special experience. The differences could not have been more contradictory: a jam with two bases. One completely centered, resting in himself, radiating tranquility, slow flying, he feels every detail, every unevenness in the movement, every weightshift too fast or too slow. Back to basics: We practice Sidestar and Backplank Transitions. He feels every hesitation, every uncertainty – and wants…

Travelling! Time for a few thoughts about borders. Borders meet us everywhere, borders between land and sea, cultural borders, interpersonal borders, sometimes my horizon is limited, sometimes the body. Communication is often limited: when the other person simply does not understand what you want to say or something completely different arrives. Thoughts are limited, when they turn in circles and somehow it does not go any further. Possibilities often seem limited: I can not do this and that, though I would like to … Because there is always a reason – and sometimes even a good one. Yoga helps you to cross your borders, you often hear. And it does…

Why are we celebrating New Year’s Eve? Sure, because one year ends and a new one begins. Somehow, people have agreed, that today is a special day and tomorrow too. The last day of the year. The first day of the new year. An old chapter ends, a new section begins. Is not that the same every day, every hour, every minute? What if we celebrated each day like this and welcome the new? My yoga teacher once told a nice story, maybe you know this legend from an old yogi: He lived in a nice big house. One day, when he returned from a trip, this house was ablaze.…

Christmas, the feast of love. Maitri, in yoga, love, friendship, in the sense of goodwill towards all people. Where does this limitless love begin? As with everything: not in the outside, but inside. Give yourself something for the feast of love: self-love. Honestly, do you love yourself the way you are? With your good and bad sides, with all the entanglements, in which you hang, with all the feelings, that are in you, with your whole being at that very moment? For most of us this is probably one of the hardest lessons and I do not exclude myself there. Often we are looking for anything, that makes our lives…

“Yoga citta vritti nirodhah” – Yoga, mind, fluctuations, stillness. Yoga is the cessation of the modifications, or fluctuations, of the mind.  Just four little words Patanjali uses in the second verse of the Yogasutra to describe, what yoga actually means. And yet: four words so big to hold the whole universe of the human psyche in itself. What is this mind? How does it work? And how can it’s fluctuations calm down? All this is explained in the yoga philosophy. But what, if the mind just does not want to calm down? Why a yogi may cry, scream and curse … I love the yoga philosophy: In theory, everything is so…

Berlin! 550 kilometers separate us. How many times have I driven this track this year? And this time it took a very long time. Time to let my thoughts wander and to look for the big picture in the small things of everyday life. What came out? Life is a highway ride! :))) Sometimes the track is free and I can accelerate. Sometimes an obstacle appears and slows me down. Sometimes it is so full, that you have to adapt to the flow of the others. Do I really have to? No, I don’t have to adapt, it’s an illusion, because I always have the free choice. I can change…

A lot to do? The time until Christmas is racing. And as contemplative as we somehow remember this time, it has not been for a long while. The cities are busy, the streets too, at work everything is urgent. Quickly do this and tick it off. The Christmas season is a real stress maker. So what to do? Sure: Yoga. Why this helps and how I became aware through yoga that stress does not actually exist: There is stress: in my head. When I get a job after job at work, which can not be done in time until Christmas. If the evenings are full of appointments, if I’m late,…

Yesterday it happened again: I actually wanted to write this blog and the topic was already fixed: synchronicities. The laptop was already up, the tea cooked, I had time. But something was missing. The gut feeling said: not now. So I spent the evening differently. And when I lay in bed in the evening, just before falling asleep, I suddenly knew what was missing: one of the most beautiful stories about synchronicities that I know. The curious thing: a year ago I had written a newspaper article about this story – and this just raided from the archive that day, for a completely different reason. I did not know the…

One year like a roller-coaster-trip, one year of extremes, with the best and the worst experiences. One year in motion: That was my year of Acroyoga. By far this year for me was the year with the most encounters, the most trips, the most experiences. The most valuable is actually quite simple and still sometimes so hard to understand: It’s all about trust.  How could I throw myself upside down into a position, carried by the feet or hands from another person, if I don’t trust her? It’s not possible without trust. But trust is not a one-way-street. Only trusting the partner is far from being enough. I am often…