Powered by love
I have always been a dreamer.
Intimacy with life empowers a single person to change the world
*Dit artikel is gepubliceerd op Yoga International Magazine
International Yoga Day
We wish you a very ordinary Yoga day. A day like every other day of the year. Doing YOUR yoga.
Yoga in ordinary life
...And still, it was great to see what happened when this group of very diverse persons linked the breath movement to the body movement, and body, mind and breath were united in that moment. Without any struggle, big effort or previous training. People that don't know yoga.
Perfect person
Dear Perfect Person // faithful friend // ever there for me ...
The yoga of action
... Words can never describe who you are, or tell the truth. But we sometimes can remember or recognise who we are by texts that inspire us.Writings that get you in touch with a world behind the words. Texts that blossom between the lines. Simplicity that brings one back to the essence.
If you can breathe, you can do Yoga
... Today we went to my 84-year-old mother to teach her a personal yoga practise. Her yoga. Adapted to her body, age and lifestyle.
You are the hope of humanity
... And I firmly believe that you – yes, I mean you! – have the power to contribute to freedom in this world.To quote U.G. Krishnamurti: 'You are the hope of humanity'.If not you, who else?
What to look for in a teacher
... Anyone that seduces you to think that you need to become a better person and that there is a special person that can give this to you, (if you follow their truth), keeps you trapped in a vicious circle of disempowerment.
Already perfect
The subtle force of nature fascinates me, and especially its effect on us: human beings. In our continuous and striving rat race to get from one point to the other, our relationship with nature seems to bring relieving pieces of peace.
Auspicious gathering in Saanen
... During my music study, I was introduced to yoga for the first time, and I took my first lessons in yoga. This was because of Yehudi Menuhin, the world famous violin player, who was totally into yoga.
Yoga is making love with life
... How can life be something you need to get a diploma in or to become qualified at, a call to be a 'better' person? As if life is not already happening? In me, in you. Just here. Right now?
Lost my love for yoga
Over the last years, I sort of lost my love for yoga. Not in the philosophy and basics of what yoga in essence is. For me, yoga is only and just simply about life. That has always been there.
Madhura – de zoetheid van het leven
De smaak zoet, madhura in het Sanskriet, speelt volgens de ayurveda een grote rol in het proces van 'in stand houden'.
Opa Wim’s haverkoeken
Wie ooit een retraite bij ons gevolgd heeft, die kent de inmiddels legendarische haverkoeken van Wim. Zoals hij ze kon bakken vond je ze nergens. Net zoals de bakker zelf, want Wim was minstens zo legendarisch.