ANAHATA YOGA BERLIN
Discover a very old and rare yoga tradition from the Himalayas.
Dance the dance of Shiva and Shakti.
Master the elements Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Akasha.
Open your heart.
Do you want to…
- … leave the treadmill of everyday life behind and take some time for yourself?
- … feel and experience your body being open and flexible?
- … experience a deep connection between body, mind and soul?
- … meet people for whom creativity, sustainability, community and authenticity are very important?
- … make experiences that uncover untapped potential, talents and passions within you?
- … feel a great joy for life and adventure again?
Then Anahata Yoga Berlin and my way of sharing, teaching and celebrating yoga is meant for you.
Be inspired and join me at one of the many different ANAHATA YOGA BERLIN events. I’m looking forward to you!
ANAHATA YOGA BERLIN
Discover a very old and rare yoga tradition from the Himalayas.
Dance the dance of Shiva and Shakti.
Master the elements Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Akasha.
Open your heart.
Do you want to…
- … leave the treadmill of everyday life behind and take some time for yourself?
- … feel and experience your body being open and flexible?
- … experience a deep connection between body, mind and soul?
- … meet people for whom creativity, sustainability, community and authenticity are very important?
- … make experiences that uncover untapped potential, talents and passions within you?
- … feel a great joy for life and adventure again?
Then Anahata Yoga Berlin and my way of sharing, teaching and celebrating yoga is meant for you.
Be inspired and join me at one of the many different ANAHATA YOGA BERLIN events. I’m looking forward to you!
Event Offers
Anahata Yoga Retreat
***Event in German language only***
Anahata Yoga Munich and Anahata Yoga Berlin are teaming up for another beautiful event!
Forest Whispers & Starry Nights
An outdoor weekend with space and time, you and us, adventure and silence.
Yoga Kind & Kegel
***Event in German language only***
A summer program for big & small yogis in the biosphere area with circus wagon and play shy!
Anahata Festival 2021
After our fantastic festival debut last summer, we are going into the second round – get a ticket now!
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Anahata Yoga - an Adventurous Journey into Your Heart
Anahata Yoga – Origins and Healing Potentials
Anahata Yoga is an old and very rare style of yoga and is part of Hatha Yoga.
It is also affectionately referred to as “village yoga”. It comes from the high-altitude villages in the Himalayas, where people carry heavy loads across mountains and valleys – every day and under most difficult conditions: rough hiking paths, ice and snow, long distances, no pack animals and far away from any hospital.
In order to be able to withstand these adversities physically and mentally, the people there developed their very own yoga practice for centuries: Anahata Yoga
- prevents injuries,
- protects and strengthens our joints,
- improves strength, endurance and flexibility,
- strengthens our body awareness and coordination,
- promotes the ability to concentrate, and
- relaxes and creates general well-being.
In Anahata Yoga, we play very vividly with the 5 elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Akasha; later that can be described as a greater, loving consciousness that connects us all. Anahata Yoga allows us to feel this strong connection with nature that people in the Himalayas experience.
Anahata & the Dance of Shiva and Shakti
Anahata symbolizes the heart chakra. It is the fourth of the seven main chakras and connects and integrates the lower three chakras with the upper three chakras. The lower three chakras represent the physical and survival-relevant aspects such as basic trust, sexuality and effectiveness. The upper three chakras in turn have their focus in our mental and spiritual aspirations.
Yoga means union. Hence, in Anahata Yoga we practice to connect ourselves with the energy, consciousness and wisdom of our heart. Similar to the quote from Saint Exupéry in ‘The Little Prince’: “One sees well only with the heart – the essential is invisible to the eye”.
Anahata Yoga belongs to the style of Hatha Yoga. ‘Ha’ means ‘sun’ and stands for our consciousness. ‘Tha’ means ‘moon’ and stands for our energy. Hatha Yoga seeks the harmonious connection and pulsation between the complementary opposites within us: consciousness and energy, masculinity and femininity, inhalation and exhalation, tension and relaxation, Yin and Yang and thus also: Shiva and Shakti.
In Anahata Yoga we ‘dance’ the ‘Dance of Shiva and Shakti’. According to Indian mythology Shiva is the first great yogi and symbolizes consciousness. Shakti, his girlfriend, stands for the energy through which consciousness can be expressed creatively.
In the dance of Shiva and Shakti, in the constant flow between inhaling and exhaling, tensing and relaxing, we feel into our bodies: how does it feel when our bodies move with grace and elegance? With strength and stability? With determination and invincibility? Absolute calm and focus? Openness and unconditional love?
Through this physical approach to all these qualities we become more and more familiar with them: what was initially a purely intellectual concept becomes a knowledge and mastery that is deeply experienced with all the senses.
They thus become a natural part of our set of qualities that help us to live our lives successfully, joyfully and peacefully.
5 Elemente Form: Elixir of the Universe
The 5 Elements Form brings together the aspects described above in a set of 20 movement sequences. This ancient Indian practice takes up the theme of the 5 elements – earth, water, fire, air and akasha – and plays with it in a very poetic way.
Each element stands for very specific qualities of which the universe and thus we ourselves are composed. The more we become aware and master these qualities, the more we act in harmony with the universe and ourselves. Hence one could say that they are the elixir of our existence.
Through the beautiful images with which the form works, such as “Shiva’s dance of love”, “Shiva plays with bow and arrow” or “Shiva turns the mill wheel”, we dedicate ourselves not only to the physical aspects when playing the Form. Much more they help us to stimulate our creativity, consciousness and curiosity again and again and hence to discover new facets of these universal qualities – as well as to express them.
The 5 Elements Form is also universal in itself: Yogis traditionally used it to connect to energies and master them. In a slightly modified form, also fighters learned to expand and refine their martial arts with it. Dancers refined their body feeling and expression. People with injuries or restrictions practiced their motor skills, sense of balance and mobility.
And so even today the 5 Elements Form is suitable for everyone: whether old or young, whether in a wheelchair or artist, whether yogi or soccer player – the 5 Elements invite us all to play with them!
Adelheid Rehmann is…
qualified Anahata Yoga teacher since 2018 and founder of Anahata Yoga Berlin. She is currently completing her training as a Yoga Psychological Coach.
By training an economist, she has got experience as a consultant in sustainability and especially climate change mitigation for more than ten years. In her work with ministries, development banks and the private sector in Germany and abroad, she has come to the conclusion:
The decisive changes towards more sustainability – and also towards a happier life – begin inside us. Experiencing this also in her private life again and again, she integrates this perspective as a central pillar into her yoga practice. This practice is characterized by
- The conscious and at the same time gentle and individual expansion of our physical abilities, without overstraining our body
- The merging and integration of western medicine, e.g. bio-mechanics, and eastern philosophy
- To feel, explore, activate and trust in our inner strength, creativity and our ability to create
- The embedding of yoga into our everyday life through versatile, creative and lovingly conceived workshops and events
- Her guitar playing, her singing and her great humor.
Adelheid Rehmann is…
qualified Anahata Yoga teacher since 2018 and founder of Anahata Yoga Berlin. She is currently completing her training as a Yoga psychological coach.
By training an economist, she has got experience as a consultant in sustainability and especially climate change mitigation for more than ten years. In her work with ministries, development banks and the private sector in Germany and abroad, she has come to the conclusion:
The decisive changes towards more sustainability – and also towards a happier life – begin inside us. Experiencing this also in her private life again and again, she integrates this perspective as a central pillar into her yoga practice. This practice is characterized by
- The conscious and at the same time gentle and individual expansion of our physical abilities, without overstraining our body
- The merging and integration of western medicine, e.g. bio-mechanics, and eastern philosophy
- To feel, explore, activate and trust in our inner strength, creativity and our ability to create
- The embedding of yoga into our everyday life through versatile, creative and lovingly conceived workshops and events
- Her guitar playing, her singing and her great humor.
© 2020 Adelheid Rehmann
