Yoga, Ayurveda & Somatic Wisdom for Modern Life

About twelve years ago I got a step counter, a simple one. And within a few weeks I stopped wearing it, not because it didn't work, but because it was taking the felt sense and joy out of walking. I was tracking my steps instead of feeling my feet on the ground. That small experience stayed with me. And I think about it a lot now, in a wellness culture where tracking everything, sleep, HRV, r...

Maybe your bathroom shelf looks a little like a small pharmacy. Ashwagandha. Magnesium glycinate. Vitamin D3 with K2. A probiotic. A stress support complex with adaptogens and B vitamins or a menopause complex with all things that sound ancient and powerful. And you pay a lot of money for the supplements. About ten years ago I worked with a practitioner who put me on a supplement protocol. Around...

Many people who find their way to this kind of work have already tried a few things or more, sometimes (talk) therapy, coaching, self-inquiry, sometimes years of it. They understand themselves (very) well. And yet in their body and in the actual felt experience of daily life something hasn't often shifted (much). This episode explores why. And specifically, why some of what we carry lives bey...

You've probably read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Done the research. You understand your patterns, your attachment style, your dosha - maybe better than most people understand theirs. And yet something still hasn't quite shifted. This episode explores one of the most common, and least visible,  gaps in the healing process: The gap between insight and change. Between knowing somet...

Maybe you've already tried a lot. The therapy, the supplements, the morning routine, the retreat that felt transformative - for a bit.. Maybe you're functioning well on the outside and running on empty on the inside. Or you simply have the quiet sense that something still isn't quite landing - despite everything you've already done. This episode opens a new mini-series: From th...

This episode runs 50 minutes - grab a tea. Maybe you know the feeling of working hard to be believed. Of achieving a lot and still waiting, somewhere underneath, to be found out. Of freezing exactly when you most want to speak up. In this episode I share something personal - more personal than I usually go. I talk about being born two months premature, what the doctors told my mother, and the math...

Aflevering 4 - en de eerste in het Nederlands. Ashtanga yoga als oefening in ritme, veiligheid en innerlijk leven Sommige afleveringen van deze podcast zijn in het Engels, sommige in het Nederlands... en dit is de eerste Nederlandse. Aflevering 3 gaat ook over Ashtanga yoga, maar dan in het Engels. Dit zijn geen vertalingen van elkaar. Elke aflevering heeft zijn eigen leven, zijn eigen verhaal, zi...

This episode is one of my favourites so far - and honestly, one I've been wanting to record for a long time. Twenty years of practicing Ashtanga, fifteen years of teaching it. There is so much I love about this practice and so much I wanted to share. The passion probably shows. And there is still so much more to explore - so yes, more episodes herein are coming. (Tip: this one works well at 1...

Maybe you wake up already overwhelmed before the day has even begun. Maybe you're functioning well on the outside but there's a quiet voice underneath asking: is this really all there is? Maybe you've tried a lot of things - and they helped, a little, for a while - but something still isn't quite landing. In this episode, I go into the heart of why I work the way I do - bringin...

Welcome. I'm so glad you're here. This first episode is an honest introduction: Who I am, what I do  and why this podcast has been quietly waiting to begin for longer than I'd like to admit. I share a little about my path - from growing up in East Germany to becoming a world champion rower at 17, through years in medical science, psychology and research, to twenty-plus years of Asht...