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Fascia isn’t just an arbitrary part of the body, fascia is a complex and vast communication network within the body that influences every aspect of our development. Anat Geiger dares to scratch the surface in this latest blog post.

Has the demonization of stress led to us overlooking the value of stress for survival and good health? Anat Geiger explores this topic through the lens of a yogi.

Anat explores the work of Dr Bruce Lipton to help provide evidence for what yoga philosophy has been saying for centuries: modern science is proving that the stories we tell ourselves ultimately will become our story if we don’t gain control over the mind.

Who is Who: Maj Ingemann-MoldenAge: 38Occupation: full time yoga teacher E-RYT, lead trainer RYS 200 and yoga studio manager Klaas BoomsmaAge: 45Occupation: running trainer, magazine editor Kenneth GrahamAge: 45 Occupation: yoga teacher 

Those stories are now everywhere, even on Netflix: yoga teachers whose behavior is questionable, or downright wrong. They are dishonest and greedy, sexually aggressive and inappropriate, selfish and way too much into themselves.

How do you see yourself /identify with your role as yoga teacher? Anat: I honestly don’t feel it much as a role. I think I am pretty much myself when I teach – a mix of humor and seriousness, of strictness and flexibility, warmth and detachment.

Nowadays commitment and discipline are lacking in the yoga world and passed up for convenience and a very different kind of ‘flexibility’. Yes, there are many benefits but at what cost?

Who is who Dr. Martijn Groenink Sammels: 54, former life science researcher (PhD), currently a dentist  Pascalle Paerel: 29, former Dutch National Ballet dancer, currently a model agency owner (The Fashion Composers)  Tristan P. Rose: 35, former Australian soldier (Afghanistan veteran), currently a deep sea commercial diver and yoga & meditation facilitator for Australian veterans and first responders  Anna Dukhanina: 35, currently […]

Anat Geiger shares her view on the importance of commitment and discipline, two words that are seemingly taboo in today’s society, for increasing our energy and achieving long term happiness.

As Anat pointed out in Stillness and Meditation: the Most Important Work, it’s not easy to start a meditation practice. You have your mind set that you are going to start, and then after a few times (or sometimes a few minutes) you can’t do it anymore. You are bored, its’ taking too long, your […]

These days meditation can refer to a wide variety of practices and techniques, ranging from mindfulness to vipassana to chakra meditation. The benefits of these practices are becoming more evident as more and more research is being done in this field. The roots of meditation are in ancient spiritual practices, but some modern varieties (such […]

Anat Geiger, a functional yoga teacher, writing a personal essay on body image and self-acceptance. Being rejected by both fat and skinny people and letting that define her self-worth, Anat shares how she overcame the struggle and began to accept who she was and encourages others to do so.

6 questions: To offer you (and ourselves) a broader perspective on the topic of body image, we reached out to friends of TFY: two yogis and two Gym goers/personal trainer and asked them to talk about their relationship with their own bodies and the judgements they make on other people’s bodies.

For the long time of its existence Chakra meditation was a secret practice of the tantric tradition. Speculations of how old this particular tradition varies between 1500 and 3000 years. As a time bar: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras were written approximately 2000 years ago.