What is hatha yoga and where does it originate from? In fact, all modern forms of yoga have evolved from hatha yoga.

To walk the path of self-inquiry and understanding of our nature with sensitivity means to integrate somatic awareness into any practice of Hatha Yoga.

In this fifth episode of Conversations Beyond the Mat, Hilary Brown talks with Nele van Poucke who is deeply immersed in Prana Vinyasa yoga.

Practicing to be in the heat, to manage your own energy, it will always make you come out of the room a bit different than when you entered.

Yin Yoga is a yoga style that has grown in popularity over the past couple of years. It’s a quiet and inward practice, in which poses are held longer in a passive way.

Do you know how many kids go to school without lunch in The Netherlands? A lot…Too many …In some places, up to 20%.Would you like to do something very concrete for families who depend on the Voedselbank in Utrecht for their groceries?

I asked myself, what does gratitude actually FEEL like? And I looked it up…Gratitude is a positive emotion felt often directed towards a person who gives you a gift or felt towards a higher power. Humm…when someone gives me a gift? That doesn’t happen very often.

Why is it so hard to do things that are good for you? I know that having my phone in the bedroom has negative side effects on the quality and quantity of my sleep.

Tax deduction scheme study costs will change end of 2021. You probably don’t like doing your tax return, or do you? If you are considering to join a yoga training in 2022, you should read this.

Most of all, yoga taught me the meaning of impermanence. Everything is constantly changing, including my thoughts, my bodily sensations, my emotions, and feelings. Everything comes and goes. Like the breath that moves in and out, as a natural flow.

Pairing Reiki and yoga together can offer great values as they are both energetic medicine that will deepen and intensify the experience of both practices. Reiki and yoga cross at many intersects, but most commonly discussed are the relieving effect of Reiki on blocked chakras, and how Pranayama can help channel Reiki.

Hilary Brown talks with Kirsteen Ruffell who is specialized in Yoga and Women’s Health: her own Yoga practice began by chance in 1990 and she’s been enjoying it ever since. Apart from Pre and Post Natal Yoga & Baby Yoga with Birthlight, Kirsteen also has a background of training in Hatha & Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and she has been teaching since 1998.

Yoganization: The steady process of change through yoga, from taking that first (or second) yoga class, to turning into a yogi, into a yoga teacher, into a yogic life.

Hilary Brown talks with Kristin Campbell: the founder of Tapasya yoga. With passion and precision and a dose of mama-bear love, Kristin teaches embodied-alignment based Hatha-Vinyasa Yoga.

Hilary talks with Rolf Gates, one of the leading voices of modern yoga. A former social worker and US Airborne Ranger who has practiced meditation for the last twenty years, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his practice and his teachings

Aerial yoga is one of the youngest forms of yoga, nevertheless, there are millions of people practicing Aerial Yoga every day worldwide. It’s a beautiful way of exercise from which you can benefit on many different levels.

The Work of Byron Katie is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. Katie saw that when she believed her thoughts she suffered, and that when she didn’t believe her thoughts she didn’t suffer.

Do you sometimes mistake the search for happiness with the search for meaning? Have you identified what is meaningful in your life? And what less so? Have you made conscious decisions based on your purpose values instead of your pleasure values?

Curious how you can be neither awake nor asleep and your body is at rest? Yoga Nidra “sleep of the yogis” means sleep with full awareness.

Rolf is the author of the acclaimed book on yogic philosophy ‘Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga’ and is one of the leading voices of modern yoga.