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The Devanagari Game - learn how to read Sanskrit texts in the original version!

Play and learn all Devanagari letters at the same time. In doing so, you will soon be able to read the ancient yoga source texts in their original Sanskrit versions.

Transliteration Tool

This tool allows you to easily change the transliteration of single words or even entire texts. This is particularly helpful when you want to produce Devanagari script or Roman script with diacritical marks. With the copy&paste function, you can then enter the generated words or texts in a word processing program of your choice.

Traditional Practice Series: All traditional Ashtanga practice series

Ashtanga Yoga in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. The traditional practice series with detailed descriptions of the individual movements including the vinyasa count. Systematic learning steps help you get a deeper understanding of this powerful and dynamic yoga practice supported by your breath.

Source texts and Mantra: Ancient texts of wisdom brought to life word by word

Gain a direct access to ancient texts of wisdom and dive through them in yoga tradition. All translations of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Mantra and some Upanishad fragments are translated word by word with detailed grammatical analysis - this can be sour start for a deep philosophic study!

Riding the waves of breath

• 21.08.2017
• Dr. Sabine Nunius

“This is Breathing Yoga – Some simple stretches but intense breathing“ This is the way Sri K. Pattabhi Jois liked to describe Ashtanga Vinyasa.

The Perfect Core Training for Pregnancy

• 11.08.2017
• Dr. Melanie Steiner & more

Dr. Ronald Steiner and Dr. Melanie Steiner explain why a strong core is so important during pregnancy, complete with some simple abdominal exercises you can do to strengthen your center.

Delighted about the new baby, but worried about stretch marks...

• 06.08.2017
• Dr. Melanie Steiner & more

With these simple tricks you can offer your baby a loving space while supporting your own body. In this way you can also give your skin a chance to stretch harmoniously without stretch marks.

Can a Newborn Baby Practice Yoga? - and what we as adults can learn from them

• 30.07.2017
• Dr. Ronald Steiner & more

We didn't know what to expect when we laid our two-week old son down between our mats. At first, he was just lying there, but then...

How come a new Mama suddenly gets a ton of new asana!

• 23.07.2017
• Dr. Melanie Steiner & more

After a mother gives birth to a child, she finds not only her body has completely changed, but also that her emotions are in need of a good tune up in order to find harmony. Here we share our experiences as new parents and yogis.

AYI Interview with Anna Trökes

• 16.07.2017
• Anna Trökes & more

Can Yoga make you happy? Author and philosophy expert Anna Trökes thinks it can...

Everyday Mindfulness with Yoga

• 03.07.2017
• Martin Ruppe

In everyday life our brain is constantly exposed to stimuli, which result in biochemical processes taking place. Stimulus overload without a break is overtaxing on the body and mind. Thankfully, yoga can offer us a chance for some much needed mental down time.

Get up without help even at the age of 80 - and how yoga can help make that possible

• 01.07.2017
• Patrick Albus

Patrick Albus explains the purpose of the Sitting-Rising Test (SRT) and how seniors can easily test their fitness at home without having to use any special equipment. Patrick explains how the test works and what it can tell us about our health and how we can use the results to improve our fitness.

A Look Abroad: Yoga in Tokyo

• 26.06.2017
• Kumiko Sakaguchi & more

Tokyo is home to the most active and international yoga scene in East Asia with a dedicated community of practitioners made up of both home-grown and international yogis. The city offers a wide range of opportunities for enthusiasts catering to all tastes and preferences.

Paddling out the kilometers in kayak training was my first meditative experience.

• 18.06.2017
• Ulrich Schäfer & more

Fascination with the breath: Physical therapist and AYI teacher Ulrich Schäfer talks with us about the effects of breath-led movement and its potential as moving meditation in sports, therapy and daily life.

My mat never gets rolled up!

• 08.06.2017
• Florian Sprater

What is yoga for kids? Are the children forced to sit down and meditate? While for many this image may come to mind, it is not at all the case. Florian Sprater tells us more about what really goes on.

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

• 01.06.2017
• Joachim Pfahl & more

Finding a way to get back in touch with your body - Joachim Pfahl talks with us about how yoga can be used to help trauma survivors heal themselves.

Being content with myself

• 25.04.2017
• Peter Herdin & more

Atha yoga-anuśāsanam – or in other words, why it is never too late to start a yoga practice. AYI student and teacher Peter Herdin talks with us about how after 60 without yoga he was able to find access to this ancient practice. And why in hindsight this is the best thing that could have happened to him.

Tradition vs. Innovation – or Innovative Tradition?

• 19.04.2017
• Andrew Eppler & more

Andrew Eppler on the role of innovation and tradition in Ashtanga Yoga – and on how the seeming conflict between the two can be reconciled.

Mysore-style: A Private Lesson in a Group Setting

• 14.04.2017
• Andreas Lutz & more

A yoga class where hardly any words are exchanged, there is no fixed start and end time and where it seems at first that everyone is just doing whatever they want - there is no way that can work, right? Actually, yes it works perfectly well! And in a surprisingly effective way, so long as you understand the 'rules' of a Mysore-style Ashtanga class.