Hot Yoga & Healthy Food: These Entrepreneurs Offer an Oasis for Stressed Berliners

Hot Yoga & Healthy Food: These Entrepreneurs Offer an Oasis for Stressed Berliners

Especially in winter when the days are short and the light is gloomy, every Berliner wishes to hop on a plane to Bali or at least to South Europe. But all the plane-hopping is surely not so good for our planet and not the best choice if you have a fulltime job and a family here in Berlin. 

Exactly 11 years ago on a really hard winter night, a friend of mine brought me to my first SUNYOGA class in Kreuzberg. Afterward, I felt completely exhausted but in the nicest way. Like you had spent a whole day at the ocean.  Back then I had never heard of the concept of Hot Yoga and did not know anything about the health benefits and how it would change my life for good. 

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Altered State of Mind: 5 Ways to a Controlled High

Altered State of Mind: 5 Ways to a Controlled High

artist: Sean Norvet

Even if you don’t agree with any form of drug use, there is a controlled or more healthy way to consume many substances, and there are many different reasons why people seek that respective substance. Knowing and reflecting on these different forms of how and reasons, why people are looking for their high, can prevent a lot of misunderstandings and stigmas in our everyday life. In light of the Altered Conference, held in Berlin for the first time in 2017, with workshops, talks and rituals on the subject of psychedelics, conscious drug practices, and the social issues that come along with it, we thought about different approaches to substance use that exist here. After all, it’s not as easy as You take drugs, so you’re a total wreck! In collaboration with the Altered team, we put together a list of 5 different scenes and motivations that are significant in Berlin.

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