Author: Kathrin

Less can be more

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From time to time, forget about complex practices, challenging asanas and go back to the basics. Doing less, with more awareness.
Simple Sun Salutations invite the mind, body, breath, and consciousness into a deep experience of harmony and balance within.
While going within more and more though repetition, the body gets a nice workout too.
I like to end this practice with some deep stretches, which I hold for a few minutes. Being in a posture for some time releases the deeper tissues, the fascia.

Less can be more, give it a try!

Too lazy to practice?

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I‘ve got you!

It just takes a few minutes to get your energy back: 

turn your favorite music on, get up, close your eyes and let the music move your body. No matter how it looks, just allow the music to flow through you. Smile. Done.

Need music inspiration? I have tons of playlists on Spotify, look for oxmox99

Stretch baby

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Lizard Pose, or Utthan Pristhasana, a deep lunge that strengthens the groin and inner hamstrings while preparing the body for deeper hip openers.

I love this stretch, it just opens my entire body, particularly the hip flexors, and stretches the groin, which is in many postures rather compressed.

Particularly when sitting all day, these deep stretches are so yummy!

Wild thing

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When I ask my students to feel a pose, it’s not about good or bad, right or wrong. It’s about digging into its energy.

The energy you create in each pose, the pulsation of stretching and release, which happens simultaneously. It‘s about feeling these lines of energy – nothing to ask your mind, but noticing the sensations in your body. Without judging or even labeling them.

Change the mode

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We are so obsessed with „doing“, no matter if in life as such or if it‘s about a yoga pose.
Doing it right. Proper technique, strength, flexibility….
Instead of worrying and overthinking, start to feel what you are doing. Experiment with shifting the weight, with your breath, engaging the bhandas, and stay with this internal focus.

Get intimate with your body.
See what happens.

The sensual – activate your inner glow

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Postponed to September, dates to be announced!

4 days online course, 20min each day, 8pm CET.

Instead of running away from our emotions or any sensations, we dig into the field of permission. Together.

Each day will be a different practice to go internal, touching various levels, reconnecting to your body and your senses.

All you have to do is to give the judgmental mind a break and allow the experience to land… and eventually become it.

We meditate – we activate our senses – we move slowly and connect with our body – we meditate again.

No experience required, just be open to something that might be new for you! All sessions are online (via Teams, no app required) and this is what you need:

For day 2:

  • your favourite natural scent (can be an essential oil, rosewater, a flower – no artificial perfume!)
  • a feather or piece of silk
  • a piece of fruit or chocolate

For day 3:

  • comfortable clothes which allow you to feel good and move

Energy exchange: CHF 40.-

Email to register

Singing bowl

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Not sure why I don’t play them more often – I feel the vibrations in my entire body, calming and yet like an extra boost of energy.
Singing bowls create vibrations that are similar to the frequencies of the brain’s alpha waves.

By playing and creating these frequencies, they can entrain the brain, allowing it to relax and become more focused as it transitions to a theta wave state.

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What is yoga?

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The question that comes up frequently – what is yoga and what makes it different from any other “fitness style”?

I was teaching the Ashtanga module in a teacher training this weekend and it showed up so beautifully what yoga actually is.

After practicing the primary series, a student told me how she felt her body speaking to her. Telling her what she should look into, not just on a physical, but also on a mental level. She was amazed on how she could focus on herself, not looking at others, but go internal. She practiced yoga.

Another student was struggling a lot with postures, being rather upset after. He wasn’t even willing to share his experience, so I won’t judge, but it felt as if he was caught up in performing.

It doesn‘t really matter if your body can make it into a pretzel or if it doesn‘t find the sweet spot in a balance; what matters is being open to what an asana teaches. We receive lessons on all levels, body, mind and spirit. We can learn so much, If only we would listen.

This is where the yoga starts. 

Let me give you an example. To go deep into backbends, we need to open the front side, particularly the chest area (very simplified!), and if this is difficult for you, ask yourself where else in your life does this show up? How open is your heart? How willing are you to show up as your true self?

Balancing postures are telling us a lot about our stress level…

Asanas can work in both directions, as pointers, and they can also help to address and eventually solve an issue you might face in other ares of your life. 

Yoga isn‘t a fitness regime, although it helps on this level too!

We went on retreat!

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What does it actually mean to go on a retreat?

Literally to retreat means to move back or withdraw. Step back from our daily tasks and habits, spend time in community, reset and open up to new inputs, eventually extend our comfort zone and deepen practices.

We went to the beautiful island of Mallorca, away from tourism, staying at a magical place, where the energy of the place and the people were welcoming us.  

When hosting a retreat, I’m fully committed to be authentically me. While all practices are properly planned, I’m open for the dynamics of the group to change plans for the better. Flexibility is key! 

Not just a variety of different yoga practices, also spirituality is a huge part, but never as a doctrine, it comes naturally as an experience for the participants.

And yes, there was more! 

Healthy and tasty food, no so healthy (but nevertheless yummy) drinks, a lot of laughter, great talks, quiet times, the nourishing spring sun, massages, sound healing, breathwork, and and and…. And the fun of good company!

We had a blast and I’m already thinking about the next one…. stay tuned!

Embrace where you are

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„From chasing to embracing.“

Jeff Foster

I learned this in my asana practice. Not chasing anymore, I don’t need to be able to do any fancy posture. I embrace what I can do and also what I can’t. Eventually this will merge. Or not. It doesn’t really matter. 

Just be consistent in your practice, your body will change and open.