Every day of your life, you breathe in and out about 20,000 to 30,000 times. You’re probably not even aware of breathing – unless you have some kind of bronchial or lung problem. And like a close friendship, it’s the same with breathing: it’s so taken for granted and therefore ordinary. And in this self-evidence lies the danger. To put it bluntly, automatic breathing is not necessarily an advantage, because…

Yoga is an experiential science with the goal of integration (samadhi). Integration means to make the individual consciousness familiar with the experience of a higher, universal consciousness. In order for us to arrive at this experience, yogic teaching has developed a whole range of techniques and tested them over thousands of years, adapting the same to human development. At very early stages, the great sages of yoga science…

More than six million Americans practice one of the many variations of yoga on a more or less regular basis. In addition, there are millions of yoga devotees worldwide. Yoga originated somewhere in India about 5000 years ago, but only reached Europe and America about 100 years ago. And even younger is the modern yoga boom that began in the USA – essentially triggered by the successful TV series by Richard Hittleman – in the 1960s. This…