by Gregor Maehle | Nov 9, 2018 | Audio/Video, Society/ civilisation
Here is an interview that Anthony Charalampous from Modern Yogi conducted with me back in June. Some of the questions I’m answering are: Why yoga is more important than ever before and what it can do to save the biosphere? Why it is important for yogis to aim...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 30, 2018 | Society/ civilisation
“Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.” We are “destroying the web of life, billions of...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 26, 2018 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Ashtanga Yoga
Here is a new article that I recently wrote for the British Spectrum, where it appeared in this Autumn edition. This article deals with the benefits, individual limitations, risks, possible warm-ups and proper execution of leg-behind-head postures, chiefly Ekapada...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 12, 2018 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
As we have recently seen women are still discredited for taking a long time to speak out against powerful men like Brett Kavanaugh. In this article Karen Rain describes the slow and painful process to admit to herself that she had been victimized. She recounts the...
by Gregor Maehle | Sep 7, 2018 | Society/ civilisation
When we think about acting responsibly towards the environment a lot of space is given to recycling, using energy saver light bulbs, abolishing plastic shopping bags and plastic water bottles or having shorter showers. However, if you analyse how much CO2 each of...