Category: asana

This yoga position, that is known as the king of asanas, as the rāja-āsana, opens a very beneficial and comprehensive healing effect for people. For more or less healthy people, learning to stand on the head in an inverted posture can constitute an excellent discipline, that gifts life, the psyche and the whole posture with what are known as ‘forces that build form’.((In Anthroposophy, shape forming forces are generally defined in relation to silicic acid and the silica processes, a process that takes place through the activity of thinking and concentration.)) Read More …

In older medical diagnoses, a distinction was made between endogenous and reactive depression. The former form is strongly rooted in a genetic disposition and encompasses long periods of life, while the latter is usually triggered by disruptive environmental influences or by burdens of fate. Today, on the other hand, medicine often only discerns the severity of the depression and its accompanying complications. Read More …

Originally posted in German on 6th September 2017 By Christina Kullmann and Heinz Grill: The hip joint The general school of thought is that much of the wear and tear of the hip joint is Read More …

Originally posted in German on 5th May 2019 Article by Heinz Grill The role of the thorax for the blood circulation To consider the venous flow of blood back to the heart, and in addition Read More …

A differentiated and ordered consciousness prevents cell degeneration and heightens the immune response Article by Heinz Grill The sun prayer is usually practised at the beginning of a yoga cycle, and with its twelve dynamic Read More …

Article by Heinz Grill In the ancient times of India’s yoga culture, every bow expressed a kind of self-released act of devotion, an act of making oneself free from the body, with a simultaneous glimpse Read More …

The health effects of the spine’s own dynamic Article by Heinz Grill: The image of the exercise The geometric figure of a circle has a centre and a periphery. The point in the middle anchors Read More …

Our present time is marked by an increased sensitivity and, as a result, an often heightened vulnerability. Nevertheless, yoga practice should not make us more vulnerable and abnormally open. Rather it should make us more Read More …

This compilation of various variations of the headstand is intended to give an impression of the yoga practice envisioned here. In the classical yoga position, the headstand, the body can be formed with different points Read More …

At the following links you will find pictures of the bow, the full bow and various variations. The pictures demonstrate a fascinating, artistic play of movement with simultaneously free and detached body tension. This is Read More …

Article on the yoga pose “The Fish” by Heinz Grill Updated on 5th June 2026 Matsyasana (“The Fish”) is a classic yoga asana that mobilises the thoracic spine and opens the chest area in a Read More …

At the following links you will find pictures of the fish and its different variations. Among them are simple and very advanced positions which are intended to demonstrate the different possiblities for giving shape and Read More …

The various yoga exercises are known for their health-promoting effects. In addition they offer practical opportunities for developing one’s personality and social skills. But the yoga positions are particularly fascinating to us when they are Read More …

Article by Heinz Grill: How does movement come about? Any phenomenon where a spacial change occurs within a measurable unit of time is given the general term “movement”. The most varying forms of movement exist, Read More …

Article by Heinz Grill: Heinz Grill in paschimottanasana.   The body as a reflection of the cosmos The translation of paschimottanasana as “head-to-knee position” is unfortunately very imprecise as the original Sanskrit name literally means Read More …

Article by Heinz Grill: One of the most important health effects of the various yoga exercises is to stimulate and increase the entire potential of the so-called energy. This energy usually brings about an overall Read More …