Yoga Aktuell 69 - 04/2011

Special Dossier Topic: Yoga and Sport – mental strength and physical balance

Yoga and sport is a topic with many facets: yoga as mental preparation and physical regeneration for athletes, for the treatment of sports injuries or as a supplement to purely physical exercise and much more awaits you in our summer dossier. Whether you jog or play team sports, enjoy swinging a tennis racket in your free time or are a competitive athlete, or have always wondered how yoga in fitness centers differs from the courses offered in yoga schools - together with experts we have put together many interesting aspects for you. Among other things, we have planned a trip to the stand-up paddle board and into the martial arts... combined with yoga and lots of practice for beginners!

Yoga for Sport
More efficient thanks to more strength, flexibility and focus: How yoga can help athletes. By Dirk Bennewitz.

Yoga combined with...
Which sports can be combined well with yoga? A few examples briefly presented

Yoga & Stand-Up Paddling
Yoga on the SUP board – a cool thing. We show you how it's done. By Kirsty Jones & Nayra Alonso.

yoga and sports
Yoga as a complement to sport and for the treatment of sports injuries the view of various experts. Interviews: Doris Iding.

How Yoga can support competitive athletes: Yoga teachers and Diploma sports teacher Stephan Suh works with professional athletes from various disciplines and talks about his experiences in the areas football, athletics, road cycling and taekwondo

Flow as an enlightenment experience
It is not uncommon for moments in sport to occur when one fusion with the numinous. Such “flow” experiences are Ultimately nothing other than the state that is described in yoga and other spiritual disciplines. By Doris Iding.

Yoga & Martial Arts
Many similarities, same goals: Yoga and martial arts are similar than many people realize. Dirk Bennewitz demonstrates this in the Theory and in practice – of course, to participate

Yoga in the fitness center
Yoga next to dumbbells, heavy equipment and treadmills – what is yoga in the gym really like? By Anna Trökes.