My Yoga
My yoga is not so much a style, but a deep, compassionate, space-giving journey through the body into life. Soulteaching~Yoga is a path of awakening. A deep recognition of the wonderful being that you already are.
Pelvic Floor Strengthening – Love and Compassion – Kundalini – Yin Yoga and Sound
Trauma SensitiveYoga – Hatha Yoga – Deep Rest Scaravelli Yoga – Yoga Nidra – Chakra Yoga
Slow Yoga – Prana Intuitive Flow – Yoga Dance – Freestyle – Yoga and Touch – Business Yoga
Soulteaching-Yoga is a way of “accepting yourself” with everything that makes you, you: with your light and with your shadow. Yoga is meditation in motion. When you are ready for opening up and curious about what is happening, when you become aware of yourself and let go – through stillness, mindfulness, contact, and loving attention to your breath and body – then yoga can become a path of freedom.
The current of my almost 20-year yoga journey has washed
me upon a shore of letting go. Letting go of concepts, notions, and ideas. Gently, with much love and presence, I teach an intuitive yoga where you can turn to your body at your own pace, and where you have time to listen to your body’s wisdom and follow your own impulses. We bring relaxation into every moment and into all postures so that we move in a dance between tension and relaxation. Deep relaxation at the end of each yoga session is an essential part of the class.
Yoga is an invitation to be close to yourself, to feel yourself, and to accept and love yourself with all that you discover.
It is a yes! to life, to the earth, and to you and your body.
To love oneself is the beginning of
a long-life romance.
– Oscar Wilde
Touching the soul through the body
Deep relaxation through fascia stretching
Yin Yoga is a particularly gentle way to free your body from everyday ailments and mental stress. It is a style of practice that teaches you to let go of everything.
In Yin Yoga, the exercises are performed passively and without force with the help of blankets and pillows. The postures are held much longer than in the active yoga styles. The main point is to relax into the positions and let the breath flow freely. Usually while lying or sitting, long stretches reach the fascia tissue and release deeper tension in the organs and muscles. With care and mindfulness of your body and your own rhythm, you learn to accept emerging feelings, creating space for self-acceptance and inner peace.
Yin Yoga brings our life energy into flow.
Yin Yoga has a positive effect on organ function.
Yin Yoga improves mobility in the muscles, fascia, and joints, and addresses the entire connective tissue.
It can release adhesions, tension, and blockages in the fascia, and in this way relieve pain.
The Yin positions stimulate the metabolism and have a detoxifying effect.
Yin yoga practice is calming, reduces stress, and puts us in contact with deep-seated emotions.
Yin Yoga is a gift for people of all ages and constitutions!
We sometimes walk around with our hands tightly clenched, without knowing it.
Hands balled into fists we wonder why am I not at ease?
Letting go is a movement akin to a flock of birds leaving the dark of the trees.
– Jess Huon
Meet your femininity in a gentle and compassionate way
In this yoga class, loving attention is given to the pelvis and pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is a very important muscle that gives you and your organs support, which receives little attention in our culture. Mostly only women who have been pregnant know that we even have this musculature. Yet, the pelvic floor is a precious treasure in the body that, when we discover and explore it, leads to a completely new bodily awareness.
This sometimes requires a little patience, because the three layers of the pelvic floor have usually been neglected for a long time and want to be gently felt. To experience activity and strength in the pelvic center again, this yoga path leads the way through relaxation and letting go. Through this yoga practice you will learn a healthy, natural uprightness and alignment that supports and carries you in everyday life.
Supporting the pelvic floor means strengthening, stretching, and feeling good in the whole body. The combination of yoga and pelvic floor training has a harmonizing and strengthening effect on all bodily systems, leading to more vital energy, stability, strength, and lightness.
You asked for a rose. Do not run away from the thorns.
You asked for the beloved. Do not run away from yourself.
– Rumi
Yoga as health management
In our society, the focus is increasingly spent on speed and staying powerful. People are supposed to function as efficiently as possible from morning until night. More and more people have cut themselves off from their body and are perhaps even in constant battle with it, so they no longer perceive their feelings. A certain ideal is therefore emulated and we strive to be different than we actually are.
Many companies now consider it important to take care of their employees and offer them a health program that supports each individual and thus the entire company.
In business yoga, I offer holistic practice sessions that are specifically geared toward relieving the stresses of modern working life, such as long periods of sitting or standing and ever-increasing work speeds. A special sustainability develops from the exercises I lead resulting from my preventive focus.
The exercises are adapted to the time and spatial conditions of the workplace, but they can also take place in my rooms. I will be happy to advise you on site and together we will see which course concept (sitting, at the conference table, or lying down, etc.) suits you best.
Practicing Yoga is like being on a body holiday.
– Vanda Scaravelli
Freeing the spine
The Deep Rest Scaravelli Yoga I have designed is a combination of deep letting go and resting on the earth (see Meditation/Dharma) and the intuitive yoga of Vanda Scaravelli. I first encountered this free way of practicing yoga 16 years ago with my companion Caroline Lang, who to this day learns directly from Diane Long, who in turn was a student of Vanda Scaravelli, and she a long-time student of B.K.S. Iyyengar. I also learned a lot from Sandra Sabatini, a direct student of Vanda.
I am deeply grateful to have encountered this revolutionary form of yoga and still find it a great challenge to move between classical yoga styles and intuitive yoga and to lean into both aspects.
When you entrust yourself to this practice, it requires a letting go of concepts, ideas, and notions, even more so than in the other forms of yoga. This intuitive movement out of your spine can lead to an unimaginable and always newly experienced expansiveness and freedom in the body. We do not practice the asanas in the conventional sense, and there are no ready-made positions, but we dance a dance with our breath, our tissue, and the individual vertebrae, combined with our whole being.
Caroline Lang and Alke von Krucziensky are wonderful yoga teachers in this tradition and find beautiful words for the difficult description of this style of yoga.
Yoga should not be practiced to control the body. On the contrary.
It should give the body freedom – all the freedom it needs.
– Vanda Scaravelli
Slow Yoga – gentle and calm
Slow Yoga is a gentle yoga to reach one’s inner harmony through body awareness, voice, and breath. Slow postures with flowing and single movements are practiced. This course is an offer for people in the second half of life, for people with movement restrictions, or if you just like it a little more slow and calm. (even if you are perhaps only 20).
This class is also good for beginners. The yoga exercises strengthen the body in a very gentle way and take into account the various changes that come with getting older.
One course lasts 90 minutes and consists of active and quiet phases. At the end of each class there is a deep relaxation period which has very positive effects, especially for people with sleep problems. Older people with health problems are also welcome and will benefit from the yoga exercises.
We must let go of the life we planned in order to live the one that’s waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell
Sinking into silence through liveliness
In Yoga Dance we practice yoga with music. The intuitively executed movements, which sometimes have nothing to do with the classical asanas, can be very quiet and delicate or very dynamic and powerful. A very creative yoga in which you can follow your own impulses, accept the invitation to express new movements, let space and breath into your system, and also try out sounds or tones.
The annual yoga and dance seminars are lead together with myself and the dance and movement therapist Malika B. Bengen. On these weekends there are individual yoga, as well as dance offers. In addition, we combine both elements and you will be accompanied from yoga into dance and self-expression. Thereby you can become open to questions like “What is really good for me?”, “What supports me to be close to myself?”, “What sustains me when everything else falls away?”
These powerful and relaxing physical exercises of yoga and the free expression of dance strengthen the joy of life and your inner center, provide an opportunity to recharge your batteries, and help you regenerate and find yourself.
There is a voice that does not use words.
Listen to it.
– Rumi
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I look forward to hearing from you!
Nirmala K. Werner
Tel. +49 5764 94 27 00
Mail. nirmala@soulteachings.de