Yoga

Medicine of the movement

Million German swear by the healing power of yoga. The Indian teaching can alleviate many problems - from asthma to high blood pressure and depression.
A bright room on the top floor of a Munich office building. Furniture, there are none, this huge window that streams in through the daylight. It is noon, four women are relaxed with your back on the floor, eyes closed. Inhale, exhale. "Observe your breath - it is deep, or rather flat, short or fast? Does not control them, they let it happen and watched them, "says yoga teacher Albert Dennenwaldt a calm voice to his students. A long gong sounds, but he is not from the bowl, the yoga teacher in every lesson there. This chime will sound from small speakers to which an even smaller iPod is connected - Eastern philosophy meets Western technology.

Physical exercise, relaxation techniques, attitude

This first meditative part of the course is to prepare body, mind and spirit to the next exercise. "We are rehearsing for the real thing in everyday life," says Albert Dennenwaldt, medically certified yoga teacher and member of the Professional Association of Yoga teacher (BDY). The exercises will help hide the stress and other harmful effects to find the inner balance - only one of the reasons why in our society, more and more people to the Indian meditation and movement education.


Despite their age-old tradition, it has become an integral part of a modern trend, which focuses on inner balance and physical fitness. In a society where it is often only higher, faster, farther, yoga benefits from the human desire for a healthy, stress-free and their love of life: rolls, according to the BDY around five million German across all age and professional groups regularly perform yoga mat from.