Learning and walking, working in Istanbul

So it's finally time for a new Entry!
I am also begining a writing as a diary, in this diary I am writing down some experiences, ideas and feelings that arise throughout the journey of travelling introversal :)
So here am I coming with a new Blogspot entry for now :)
We are in Istanbul, for the first time in this lifetime and it's a fantastic city, so huge, located on the romantic and fascinating Bosphorus, here two continents are meeting, the Black Sea, the Mediteranean Sea and Millions of People are living here together!
So we are so lucky to have met some lovely people again and we are now living in a small and sweet appartment in the heart of Istanbul.
We are enjoying, experiencing, relaxing and learning!
Namaste and love and light :)

Looking serious in front of a mosque :)

Picture update Thai Massage Course

 Schwitzen, Üben, Lernen, Studieren, Massieren, Empfangen, Kontakte knüpfen, Spass haben :) Danke nochmals an alle Beteiligten! :)

Thai Massage Workshop erfolgreich und super schön!

Hallo ihr Lieben!
Wir sind glücklich und zufrieden mit unserem allerersten Thai Massage Kurs! Die Leute waren super engagiert, lieb und motiviert! Wir haben große Zuversicht, dass ihr alle den Willen und die Power habt, was richtig Schönes zu bewirken!
Am Anfang ist es natürlich viel Üben, Nachfragen und Probieren aber so ist das eben mit dem Lernen!? :)
Wir freuen uns riesig, dass wir so eine freudige und motivierte Gruppe am Wochenende in die Kunst der Thai Massage einführen durften!
Danke nochmal an Melanie Pillhofer und Dr. Ronald Steiner, die uns diese zauberhafte Sache ermöglicht haben :)

Nun sind wir auf dem Weg nach Berlin um unsere Freunde zu treffen und noch mehr wunderschöne Massagen zu unterrichten, zu lernen und zu geben.

Hello dear friends!
We are happy and content to announce the success of our very first Thai Massage Course! The people were amazingly engaged, lovely and motivated! We are very positive that you all have the power and the will to influence something great!
In the beginning there is of course a lot of practicing, asking and trying but this is how you learn right!? :)
We are so happy that we could give this introductory course to such a motivated and friendly group of fellow people ;)
A big thank you once again to Melanie Pillhofer and Ronald Steiner for helping us to make this dream come true :)

We are now on our way to meet our friends in Berlin and to organise another workshop over there as well! Whoooo! :)

Thai Massage Kurs in Ulm

Hallo liebe Freunde aus Ulm und Umgebung!
Wir sind nun also hier im schönen Schwobaländle und dürfen euch voller Vorfreude über unseren Kurs berichten, der am 29.08 und 30.08. in Ulm im Ashtanga Yoga Institute (AYI) stattfinden wird.
Im Kurs werdet Ihr lernen, die Lehren des eherbietigen Dr Shivago Komarpaj am Körper eines Mitmenschen anzuwenden und somit eine Heilung und ENtspannung von Körper, Geist und Seele zu vollbringen.
Edgar und ich träumen von einer Welt der Heilung, wo jeder tut, was ihm Freude bringt. Wir wünschen, dass die Welt sich mit Musikern, Heilern, Tänzern, Yogis, Handwerkern, Künstlern und anderen fröhlichen und herzeröffnenden Machern und Tuern tummelt.
Hier in unserem Workshop fangen wir also an, diesem Traum näher zu kommen. Unser Lebenstraum ist ein lebenslanges Projekt und

wir glauben fest daran. Wir wünschen uns Frieden in jedem Quadratzentimeter der Welt und hoffen, dass wir viele von dieser Vision so anstecken können, dass mehrer sich auf den Weg des Lichts begeben ;)

In unserem Kurs werdet ihr Folgendes lernen:
* Die komplette Grundsequenz für eine 1.5 stündige Massage.
* Die Positionen die zu einem beidseitig profitierendem Zusammenspiel von Geber und Empfänger führen.
* Die meditativen Aspekte des Atmens, der zeitlichen Einteilung und die Arten der Berührung.
* Die in Thai Massage behandelten Energielinien und deren Aktivierung.
* Werde dir deines eigenen und dem energetischen Körper deines Empfängers bewusst.
* Das einleitende Gebetsmantra und das Geschenk des Heilens.

Hier findet ihr ein wenig Information über die Thai Massage, ihre Geschichte, ihre Anwendung und die Vorteile die sie mit sich bringt.

Thai Massage wird seit ca. 2000 Jahren in Thailand praktiziert, wo Sie von buddhistischen Mönchen von Indien über Myanmar nach Thailand eingebracht wurde.
Die traditionelle Thai Massage ist stark auf die Arbeit mit dem energetischen Körper fokussiert. Energiepunkte entlang der Energielinien ( Meridians in Chinesischer Medizin, Nadis in Indien, Zen-Linien in Thai) werden gedrückt um diese zu erwecken.
Es werden Dehnungen, Streckungen und Gelenkmobilisierungen angewandt die an 'angewandtes Hatha-Yoga' erinnern.
Thai Massage ist eine sehr ganzheitliche Art der Massage da sie sich auf den physischen und energetischen Part des/der Patienten/in bezieht.
Somit wird eine tiefe Entspannung und Heilung, sowohl körperlich als auch seelisch erlangt.
Die meditative Praktizierung der Thai Massage führt zu verstärkter Nutzung der Intuition, welche für eine richtige und gute Massage notwendig ist.
Wenn der/die Masseur/Masseuse mit der Intuition arbeitet, können tiefe Blockaden, sowohl physisch als auch mental, befreit werden.
In Thai Massage wird der Empfänger durch das Drücken der Energiepunkte und Dehnen/Drehen des Körpers dazu angeregt tiefer zu atmen und in diese Punkte und Körpergegenden zu atmen. Der vermehrte Sauerstoffzufluss auf die bestimmten Körpergegenden bringt folgende Vorteile:

* Tieferer und erholsamerer Schlaf.

* Verringerte Stressemotionen in Körper und Geist.

* Verbesserte Durchblutung im Körper sorgt für mehr Sauerstoffversorgung zum Gehirn.

* Entspannung von Körper, Geist und Seele.
* Die angewandten Dehnungen und Drehungen verhelfen zu gesteigerter Mobilität, körperlicher Geschmeidigkeit und gesteigerter Flexibilität.

Thai Massage empfiehlt sich für Menschen jeglichen Alters, jeglicher Größe und mit jeglichen Beschwerden.
Verspannungen und schmerzhaften Gelenken kann Abhilfe geschafft werden und für den Bedarf von körperlichem und geistigem Wohlbefinden ist Thai Massage eine hervorragende Erfahrung.
Und wer sich einfach so mal was Gutes tun will liegt mit einer Massage der thailändischen Art genau richtig :)

Masaje terapeutico tailandes individual o a 4 manos.

MASAJE TAILANDES
YOGA THAI MASSAGE

Alivia tensiones, y estrés, abre la energía de tu cuerpo, recupera tu poder de respirar sintiendo ligereza, frescura, bienestar, paz mental y emocional, libérate de posturas y cargas negativas que te causen ansiedad, recupera tu capacidad de vivir en balance, armonía y paz.

BENEFICIOS

* Relajación para el cuerpo y la mente

* Reactivación del flujo de la energía en los órganos y el cuerpo general

* Incrementa circulación sanguínea

* Ayuda en incremento de la flexibilidad y movilidad

* Sana los dolores musculares causados por traumatismos y tensiones emocionales

RECOMENDADO PARA:
* Todo tipo de personas, de cualquier edad y sexo, incluso para mujeres embarazadas, y en casos de dolores musculares en hombros, espalda, cuello, caderas, piernas,
brazos. Casos de insomnio, ansiedad, estrés, obesidad.

DESCRIPCION

Esta técnica llamada hoy en día “Masaje Tailandés” o “Thai Yoga Massage”, es un sistema de sanación antigua que combina acu presión hindú, principios de ayurveda, y posturas de yoga asistidas.

Fue originada en Tailandia por el doctor ayurvedico Jivaca Kumar Bhaca, hace 4000 mil años, quien es venerado en Tailandia como el padre de la medicina quien fue reconocido en documentos antiguos como poseedor de extraordinarias habilidades sanadoras por sus conocimientos en medicina herbolaria y por tener importantes pacientes como el mismo Siddhartha Gautama el Budha.

TERAPEUTAS

Katja Schneider. Aprendió el masaje en Chiang Mai, norte de Tailandia, ha estudiado también Ayurveda en Kerala India, y es canal Reiki 1,  ha practicado desde 2013 por todo el mundo durante sus viajes.

Edgar Bernard. Aprendió el masaje en Tulum México y Toronto Canadá, y lo ha practicado desde 2008 en Canadá, y México, también es instructor de  yoga restaurativo,  hatha yoga, vinyasa y ashtanga yoga y terapeuta de Reiki 2 y masaje de renacimiento acuático.

CONTACTO:  Katja: teléfono: +52 984 1426 777  e-mail: katj.shneider@gmail.com    

                       Edgar: teléfono +52 984 1069 936  e-mail: xebernard@gmail.com 

Thanks God, Germany it`s Yoga!

Thanks God, Germany it`s Yoga!

Hi, all, thanks God, all in Germany it's a bliss, we have been doing so much fun living with our loving and generous family in a beautiful small town surrounded by fields of wheat, corn, and all kind of seeds and grains, berries, fruits, flowers and trees, our bicicle rides to the city of Ulm are so delightful and enhance our explorations in to the city and surroundings, as soon as we arrive, we got to know our Ashtanga Yoga Comunity here and found the amazingly beautiful family at AYI Ulm, (Ashtanga Yoga Institute Ulm,) were we were wellcomed and warmed up and invited to practice with this great group of Yoguis and Yoguinis leaded for Dr. Ronald Steiner a great advance teacher in Vinyasa Ashtanga who runs complete Teacher Trainings for Ashtanga Lovers.

Here we feel the love for ashtanga, and the love for Yoga, (UNITY) and we are deepening our pratice.

As I have been practising giving and receiving therapy of Thai Massage for about 4 years, now we feel a call to share our art of Thai massage, so we are opening a training in the basics of Thai Massage for our people of Ulm.

Besides all our Ashtanga and Thai Massage performances we have been spending some time getting  lots of learnings and training in climbing rocks, with Katja`s mom "Angelica", who teach us a lot and take us out to  the forest to climbn safely, so we got in touch wit "The Einstein Boulder Halle", a great place where we have fun sharing our Ashtanga Yoga and have some classes ahead for bambinis and babies & moms yoga, and want to climb bouldering technique as well.

In Germany!

Hallo liebe Ulmer!
Nach über einem Jahr (im letzten Jahr war es nur ein Kurzbesuch) freue ich mich, nun mal wieder für ein bisschen länger die gute Ulmer Luft zu schnuppern und diesen Traum auch noch mit meinem super geliebten Partner in Crime, Edgar Arpana Santosh, erleben zu dürfen! :)
Wir sind super happy, hier in Ulm so viele nette Menschen und Mityogis und Spasshaber zu treffen und wir freuen uns riesig auf alles Weitere das noch kommt.
Unsere neuen zweiten Wohnzimmer sind nun die Einstein Boulderhalle und das AYI Ulm geworden. Mit super lieber Zusammenarbeit und familiärer Herzlichkeit haben wir dort unsere neuen Babies, die Projekte für Thai Massage und Partneryoga Workshops in Angriff genommen!
Die Einstein Boulderhalle ist ein Megaspielplatz für uns, wo wir gerne abhängen und unsere Acrobatics üben. Wer sich vereinen will ist willkommen!
Und im AYI Ulm, dem Ashtanga Yoga Institute von unserem Yoga Papa und Bruder, Dr. Ronald Steiner, da freuen wir uns riesig über unsere neue Studentenzeit als Ashtangayogis.
So much fun and so much to learn!
Thai Massage geben wir euch natürlich gerne! Meldet euch um einen passenden Termin zu vereinbaren!
Edgar praktiziert seit ca. 5 Jahren eine sehr einzigartige und befreiende Art der Thai Massage, tiefe Entspannung vereint mit starker Freisetzung von Energie und Muskel Verspannungen.
Ich liebe Thai Massage und habe Sie in Chiang Mai, im Norden Thailands, ganz privat mit einer lokalen Familie gelernt. Seitdem Edgar und ich uns im Januar in Mexico am karibischen Meer trafen, habe ich viel dazugelernt und wir praktizieren unter anderem die sogenannte ''vierhändige'' Thai Massage, dies ist eine einmalige Erfahrung und empfiehlt sich für jeden ''Massageverrückten'' :)
Ja, liebe Ulmer, das ist also unser Blogspot, von unseren Reisen und Leidenschaften, wir freuen uns wenn jeder hier vorbeischaut, was reinschreibt und kommentiert und bitte meldet euch für jegliche Art der Inspirationskreativität und Zusammenarbeit am Spass und der Schönheit des Lebens ;)
Much Love and Blessings!
Katja und Edgar

Picture Update

Edgar Bernard - Bio- Experience.

Hello dear human brothers of Mother Earth.

This a brief history about this being, at service of the divine awakening for human kind in mother earth.

After several years studying licenced in finances, and postdegree in finances, and working for the financial system in Mexico city, and succeding on it making good money, I felt that making money was not making me happy. Then I started a journey looking for my heart and happiness, after a spiritual search and enlightening realizations, I discovered my real mission and passions and gave up the bussiness world.

Then in 2005 I started to practice meditation and Yoga, in the Osho Meditation Center in Mexico City, taking my first courses in Massage, Reiki Channeling, Spiritual and health counselling, Tarot reading consultation, and Dynamic Meditation guide.

In this times I met amazing teachers and spiritual guides as Dayal, Dharmesh, Isha, and Osho, who with love and great open heart, helped me to realize the divine light on this being.

After three years practicing meditation and Yoga, and giving consultation to closest friends in Mexico City, I had my first fulfilling experiences guiding dynamic and Kundalini meditations in Mexico City, then I moved to Tulum, Quintana Roo, on the beach, practicing and working in my new passion helping people to find relief from stress, tensions, and worries which are the cause of diseases and traumatisms. In these times I started a course in Acrobatic Partner Yoga and practizing all the time.

Then in 2008 I travelled to Toronto Canada where I studied and got my certification at the Yoga Space studio by the Yoga Alliance as a Yoga teacher in Hatha Flow Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, and Therapeutic and Restaurative Yoga, then I started my first training and studies in Thai Yoga Massage, where I fell in love with this form of energy healing, and I started practicing and giving group Yoga classes and private healing sessions there in Toronto.

There I came back to my child hobbies as a dancer and performer, taking several courses in dance, performance, aerial dance, juggling and acrobatics, doing such a deep body work which helped me to heal my own human traumatisms, tensions and old injuries and it gave me a great understanding of  the deep functioning of the energies moving through the body.

In 2010 I came back to Tulum where I studied an advanced course in Thai Massage and Water Rebirth Therapy basic and advanced, and continuing developing my skills in teaching Yoga, then I became happy and complete in my life doing what makes me happy and strong emotionally, mentally and physically.

Since then I am living my life giving and helping my human brothers and sisters troughout Yoga, Meditation, Thai Massage, and Water Rebirth Therapy in every place that this divine power is sending me.

Lately I start practicing and giving four handed Thai Massage with my partner Katja realizing that this form of therapy is making a beautiful balance in the feminine and masculine energy given to our clients and for our own experience in giving.

Katja Schneider, Bio - experience

Katja started travelling around the world in 2009, after she finished the High School in Germany. The first time her travels lead her to Australia, where she lived and worked in different places along the Australian East Coast for one year.
Falling in love with Melbourne she wanted to stay there for longer. This made her study a course in Tourism Management at a Melbourne based college. Here she wanted to come closer to her dream of travelling the world.
After finishing her course in July 2012, Katja decided to travel again, starting from Melbourne, hitch hiking up the Australian East Coast her way to Far North Queensland. Here she came more and more in touch with nature, through WWOOFING ("willing workers on organig farms") and wild camping experiences.
When she was 22 years old, Katja heard for the first time consciously about the ancient science of Ayurveda. This made her curious about the medicinal properties of the plant kingdom and she was starting to focus on a naturopathical/herbology path. Reading books whenever possible and discovering more ways of living with nature through various WWOOFING experiences, the dream grew inside Katja that she wanted to know more about the ancient ways of healing sciences.
Travelling to Mongolia in March and April 2013 brought her more in touch with the Asian way of generousity and simplicity. She felt connected to the people and their beautiful heart warming and easy going temper.
In August 2013, Katja visited her home country Germany, giving often massages to her family members which were very much enjoyed from both parties.
The friend of the family who was from Thailand and who was practicing Thai Massage in the local village, recommended Katja to study Thai Massage once she reaches Thailand. This was a seed planted in her mind. The spontanious decision came up to eventually travel to India. This journey began in September 2013 in New Delhi. Here she started to travel the North of India, living in the Ved Niketan Ashram in Ram Jhula, Rishikesh for two months and practicing Yoga on a regular basis. This was a very profound experience as it was a new discovery of the feeling for the body.
In the further travels around India, Katja connected again with her previous idea of studying Ayurveda. Reading books of David Frawley, meeting other Ayurveda students and seeing Ayurvedic practices all around, she came back to her previous dream of studying Ayurvedic Massage and the teachings.
When she eventually reached the South of India, Katja went to a small town named Kannur, in the state of Kerala, where she began a one month course in Abhyanga Massage, Ayurvedic Face and Head Massage, Kalari Marma Massage and Panchakarma treatment techniques.
The course covered the different types of Doshas, how to determine the body constitution of each individual person, the Pulse reading techniques and the five subdivisions of each Vata, Pitta and Kapha.
In this course Katja felt that she got a perfect base in understanding the basic and fundamental principles of the universe connected to Ayurveda. As Ayurveda is a science of life and is as infinite as life itself, it is connected to a neverending process of learning and studying.
Yet there is many parts of plant treatments and herbology that are still to be studied and I am so curious and excited to learn these too!
After six months of travelling through India, my Visa finished and I had to leave the country.
Hearing more and more about Thai Massage while my last month in Goa, South India, I was getting curious and getting closer to this next dream of studying the ancient art of Dr Shivagos Thai Massage.
Arriving in Chiang Mai in March 2014, Katja began her study in Thai Reflexology Foot Massage with a local business named Sabai De Kaa. After this course she spent a month of enjoying the north of beautiful Thailand, travelling to Laos as well to renew the Thai Visa and finally returning back to Chiang Mai in April 2014 where she began her study of Thai Massage in a family based business, the Khunchamnan family. Here she had a one on one training with the teacher Nok, who had been taught through generations of her family the ancient art of Thai Massage.
Studying a basic and an advanced course in Thai Massage, Katja learned many different techniques, ways and positions of massaging the body and releasing energy blockages by massaging some of the many different energy lines, named Sen in Thai Pali language.
Staying in Thailand, Chiang Mai for a further three months, she got to know many other friends who were studying Thai Massage as well and together they practiced with each other in their free time.
Katja returned back to Europe in the summer of 2014, having also learned a style of knotmaking jewlwery, named Macrame, she began her travels to SUN festival in Hungary and Boom Festival in Portugal. Meeting like minded people on this journey, the passion for the newly learned skills grew.
In November 2014 Katja went off to new shores to explore Mexico. Here she began a job as a massage therapist in a hotel Spa in Tulum on the Caribbean coast. This job gave her massage experience a big push as she had to massage several people every day, developing many new techniques and skills.
In Tulum finally she met Edgar. He was already living there in a paradisaic community where he was practicing and teaching Yoga and giving Thai Massage.
The two discovered their equality in the passion for these ancient practices and started practicing and learning together and from each other.

Continue reading the story in the next chapter " Welcome"

Welcome

Hello and welcome everyone to our new blogspot and adventures! ;) We are Katja and Edgar, coming from the countries of Germany and México and when Katja came to the UNO Astrolodge in Tulum on the Mexican Coast, she met Edgar, after a magical sound healing journey. The Sound Healing Meditation Journey is a magical experience that is a trademark of the UNO family, created with various instruments such as harp, flute, harmonium, the native American Flautas, the Indian Citar and Tambura, massages, copal resina incense, and many more creative inputs of each participating individual.
Here we met after this magical journey with music and massage and since then we have been travelling together with our amazing family of the UNO. We went to participate at the Ometeotl festival in Tepotztlan, did some Sound Healing Journies in a prison in México, went to an orphanage and a cancer home for children, meeting beautiful and magical people all along the way!
Now we came travelling to explore the world, to share what we love to do and to learn a lot more about all we do in this magical world that we live in! :)
At the moment we are staying in México City, giving our 4 handed Thai Massage to people and learning Acro Yoga together! We love to do a workshop soon and we will keep you updated where and when this is going to be!
We love Mexico City, this is such a vibrant alive and versatile city!
We can work, go to the parks, find nice places and meet cool people, México City has a really interesting museum of anthroplogy and Mayan history which we are going to visit tomorrow and which we are really excited for!

So here we are introducing our new blogspot, inviting you all to follow with your open minds, hearts and curiousity! Please send us all your answers, ideas questions and comments! ;)

Here a link to a video about our incredible magical Sound Healing Journey, experienced by many creative brothers and sisters, created by the loving universal forces of the UNO Astrolodge hermanitas and hermanitos :)

https://vimeo.com/125946244

 Ceremony of Birth, Love, Fun and Connection in the family of UNO Astrolodge in Tulum on the Carribean Coast, Quintana Roo, Mexico

 Practicing Thai Massage wherever we possibly can ;)

 Soul brothers and sisters

 Travelling on a mission to Coatsacoalcos

 Yoga fun with the children in the orphanage home Coatsacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

 Family on the way to Ometeotl festival, Morelos, Mexico

 Loving the moment :)

 Sound Healing in the beautiful Palapa of "Akalki" healing and holistic center in Bacalar, Mexico

 Acro Yoga in the Palapa of the UNO Astrolodge

 Partner stretching/strengthening exercises in the Jungle of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

 High flying whale Mexico

Beautiful piece of psychedelic magical art by unknown artist


And soon we are coming to Europe and we are looking forward to making many new friends, workshops and connections, meeting beautiful brothers and sisters from all over the world* :)
Love and Light a todos! ;)