Spiraldynamic & Yoga (G.A.)

Yoga has been practised for thousands of years. The goal of the coordination of physical and mind excercises is freedom. On the physical level it supports stability, energy, flexibility and relaxation, on the mind level concentration, balance and quietness. As the excercises are connected with the breath the blood circulation, digestion, nervous and glandular systems are stimulated. The positions release stiffness and tensions, help to refind the inner balance of the spine, renew the energy and recover our health. Relaxation and breath give stability, decrease stress and bring us in touch with our inner strength. The latter aspect of yoga gets the more important the older we get, even if we practice without spiritual intentions.
To stay healthy we need to move. Many problems of older age can be lessened if we stay active taking time for our body's needs for movement and rest. Our mind needs the quietness of concentration. Possibly we have to slow down getting older but we do not have to sink into laziness. The limitations of our body, mind and soul rarely are as narrow as we think.
The excercises in the „Golden Age Yoga“ will be adjusted to the special needs and problems of elderly people. Human beings have wonderful abilities for transformation and regeneration for their whole life. It is never too late to give up bad habits and retune the body to a more valuable use of our energy. If the workshop participants continue to practice the excercises regularly, they may improve their quality of life, independantly from age.



Yoga for Children from 9 to 13 years
free practice is fun and makes sense

For your information: The workshop "topsy & turvey" of Be van Vark & Alexi Papadopoulos had to be changed in time and therefor switched with "Yoga für Kinder" of Eva Hager - Forstenlechner. We apologize, in case you find divergent announcements to our website!

From the outside there is hardly any difference between the yoga practice of the grown-ups and the one of the children. At the end you practice the same positions. The main difference lies in the teaching. For us grown-ups it is important to know what we do. Children want to do something – without long explanations beforehand.
Hatha Yoga stimulates children only by the names of the positions. The tree, the mountain, the cat, the upwards and downwards looking dog, the cobra, the crocodile are some examples. They have fun flowing with their imagination when they try to imitate those animals. Their playing is surprisingly often very close to the real yoga positions.
Daily life of our kids is - like ours - often characterized by long sitting and not rarely by psychical pressure. This brings tensions in the body and the mind. The body positions of yoga help balancing and recreating the harmony of soul, mind and body.
As the heart-blood circulation-system of kids is much smaller than the one of grown-ups the effect of the yoga positions comes faster. Children have a good sense when they have „enough“ from a position. They take little breaks repeating the excercise possibly more often. After a relaxation of two or three minutes at the end they are fit and awake again.



Eva Hager- Forstenlechner
Versatile in her education and her field of work Eva-Hager Forstenlechner has been a freelance dance and film artist for some years again. She is guiding training workshops for Spiraldynamik and teaches regularly gymnastics for the spine, Yoga and Spiraldynamik. Combining the two last-named has been her focus. After her first documentary film „leben- sterben- glauben“ co- directed with Wolfram Paulus she is currently researching for another documentary film dealing with dyslexia together with the doctor Stefan Aglassinger.
Since her early age she has been involved with dance and physical performance – as a woman gymnast, in couple dancing and finally in contemporary dance education in Paris, Munique and New York. She has been a member of the dance theater company Nonentiti around Helene Weinzierl, Editta Braun Company, Lawine Torren (Hubert Lepka), and Cataracts (Beda Percht) all based in Salzburg. With her background as a jurist she has been working in the law section of the Kunstuniversität München; for several years she was employed by Szene Salzburg, first responsible for public relation, then being assistant to the artistic director.