We both have a background in the security industry and connected while working for the German development aid in northern Afghanistan. But our ultimate connection developed over morning yoga sessions on a NATO military camp. So romantic ...

Now we left war and weapons behind and follow our dream: Bringing positivity into the world by using yoga, spiritual living and sustainability as the holistic tools they are. With Yoganity we want to promote exactly this: a positive life for everyone.

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To learn more about us, read on below!

Our first Yoga Teacher Training was a 200 hours training on Nusa Lembongan in Bali. Our teacher was Leah Sugerman (www.leahsugerman.com) who led us on our first step into the world of professional Yoga and who instilled her love for anatomy in us.

Focal points of this course:

• Asanas
• Meditation
• Alignment and modification of poses
• Anatomy and Physiology
• History and Philosophy of Yoga
• Mantra and Pranayama
• Sanskrit
• Sequencing Yoga classes
• Hands-on adjustments and assists
• Teaching methodology and its application
• The business of teaching Yoga

Certified by Yoga Alliance

Certified to teach: Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative Yoga and Meditation

Our advanced Yoga Teacher Training of 300 hours took place in Dharamsala, India, under the guidance of Shree Hari (www.shreehariyoga.com). It expanded our up to then modern understanding of Yoga with a very traditional view, allowing us to gain a whole new perspective.

Focal points of this course:

• Ayurveda
• Soul-Mind-Body-Approach
• Physiology of stress and how it leads to psychosomatic ailments
• Stress management through Yoga
• Ashtanga Yoga
• Alignment according to Iyengar
• Pranayama
• Meditation
• Teaching methodology and principles of teaching

Certified by Yoga Alliance

Certified in: Multi-style (Asana, Pranayama, Anatomy, Philosophy, Ethics, Meditation, Mantra, Art of Teaching and Alignment)

We were trained in Yoga Therapy, but are not credited to teach it. Also the Yoga Alliance certification does not support the field of Yoga Therapy.

In 2021 Paul finished an online training in Kundalini Yoga, adding a certification to his already existing passion of this very special type of yoga.

We believe in the fundamental power that lies within Yoga, not as a fitness program, but as a way to open your mind, become more aware and to spur your pace on the way towards enlightenment - whatever that means to you.

Yoga therefore is not about losing physical weight (or not only), it is about losing psychological weight - burdens, stress, fear, anger. It helps leaving any negative feelings behind.

Sadly in the way that Yoga is practiced in most industrialised countries nowadays the spiritual aspects of it are nearly forgotten about. But Yoga practiced without the proper mindset will lead to envy, greed, egotistical behaviour and as a result of this to injury. Yoga injuries are becoming more common these days, of course also because there are more and more people practicing Yoga, but mainly because those practicing it as a physical activity get carried away by their ego - to achieve more, more than yesterday, more than the neighbour, more than our bodies allow us to. As soon as Yoga is understood as a personal journey, a path to only ourselves, we get rid of all egotistical incentives. We stop comparing ourselves with others and realize that there is so much more to Yoga than just weight loss.