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YOGA BY MAIKE

@yogabymaike

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My invitation to be, feel & soften
🧘🏼‍♀️ Yoga lover, practitioner & teacher
📍 Germany, Stuttgart
✌🏼 @maikimaikimaiki

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Hi, I’m Maike. 🤍

And I am starting to know myself — and to love myself — step by step.

I am learning to slow down.
To listen inward.
To accept myself in all the different seasons of life.
To let go of the idea that I have to have everything figured out.
And to trust that my path is allowed to look different from everyone else’s.

I am deeply grateful to have yoga in my life.
Not only for the asanas and the movement — but for everything yoga has taught me beyond the mat.

To observe my thoughts without becoming them.
To find balance between effort and surrender.
To breathe through the comfortable and uncomfortable moments.

Yoga reminds me that there is so much more to life than how I look, what I achieve, or how far I think I should be by now.

I am still learning.
Still growing.
Still becoming.

But I am proud of the person I am today.
And I am grateful for the journey of getting to know myself. 🤍

@jadeyogaeurope @jadeyogamats @bornlivingyoga taken in Sylt by @yogabymaike

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3 months ago

please always remember taken in Ellenbogen by @yogabymaike

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3 months ago

When I arrived at my yoga teacher training, my herniated disc & spinal nerve was so painful that I could barely sit, stand, or sleep.

I was frustrated.   Why now?

Looking back, I can see that the injury challenged exactly what I needed to learn. I wanted to perform. I wanted to keep up. I wanted to prove that I was strong, capable, and good enough.
But every time I pushed, my body pushed back.

I was forced to choose differently: to slow down, modify, rest. Actually, to care for my body instead of proving myself. & honestly, that was a bigger challenge than any physical practice.

During a sharing circle, a wonderful soulmate (you know who you are ♥️) looked at me and said: ‚Watching how you listened to your body inspired me & gave me permission to listen to mine.‘

In that moment, I realized that the part of me I was struggling with most, was the part that empowered someone else.

Strength is not pushing through. Strength is honoring your limits.

📸 @mariosimonde

@urbanharbor @jadeyogamats @bornlivingyoga @lotuscrafts @houseofom.thailand taken in urban-harbor by @yogabymaike

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4 months ago

We will find peace in the silence. taken in Sylt by @yogabymaike

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2 days ago

A little self-appreciation post 🤍

Sometimes, you need appreciate and realize just how far you’ve come…

At the beginning of the year, I felt so lost. Today, I have new dreams and a different perspective on myself. I’m learning to appreciate myself and recognize how much I grow, often quietly and without even realizing it.

This picture is from March. The person I was back then feels so far away from who I am today. And I’m proud of that.

Proud of my growth, my journey, and everything that’s yet to come. ✨

This is your reminder to see how far you’ve come.

& with that, I want to send the biggest THANK YOU to the wonderful people who have been part of my journey. I wouldn’t be where I am today without you. 🤍 @anna_corbera @daniideorbe @theheilewelt @ameliezie @samanthaf13 @lars.herter taken in House of Om Koh Phangan by @yogabymaike

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5 days ago

Hope you do that for yourself too 🤍

My nervous system is overwhelmed.
And I’m realising that right now, I simply need to prioritise catching my breath.

I’ve pushed myself so much to figure out what’s going on, that in the end, I only put my nervous system on even more alert.

As my energy has dropped, I’ve learned over the past few days that I simply need the pause first. To take a break and acknowledge that a lot is going on.

For everything else, I simply don’t have the capacity right now.

And yes, I don’t have the answer to why I feel the way I feel right now. So what?

Prio A for now: I choose to give myself the pause I need. taken in Ludwigsburg, Germany by @yogabymaike

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9 days ago

CW 40 is about feeling everything at once: The joy, the sadness, the longing, the fear. All of it simply asking to be felt & that’s okay. taken in Stuttgart, Germany by @yogabymaike

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12 days ago

Let this be the week we choose to fly. by @yogabymaike

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16 days ago

September inspired by lyrics cause ‚Life is a rollercoaster, you just gotta ride it‘

‚Illusion never changed into something real‘
Torn

‚Release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, only you can let it in‘
Unwritten

My soulmate

‚I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel, I’m cold and I’m ashamed, Bound and broken on the floor‘
Torn

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‚I am unwritten, can’t read my mind, I’m undefined, I’m just beginning‘
Unwritten taken in Ludwigsburg, Germany by @yogabymaike

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19 days ago

Back in my workout era… and I missed it 🤯

September skies just hit different. Pure soul food.

Comfy & cozy mornings are such a game changer.

Pushed it a little too far, obviously 🥵

My favourite place to breathe, move & just be.
@yogablume_ludwigsburg w/ @annelie_gross

Mornings like these are my favourite kind of mini time out. taken in Ludwigsburg, Germany by @yogabymaike

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23 days ago

Follow the signs!

📸 @mariosimonde

You already know what you need to know.

Let your intuition lead.

Everything unfolds in time.

You are doing great. taken in Ludwigsburg, Germany by @yogabymaike

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a month ago

You don’t need the world to understand your choice for it to be yours.

For a long time, I sometimes felt like I was doing something wrong simply because no one was walking the same path as me.

When I looked around and saw people making different choices, taking different directions, or reaching different milestones, I questioned myself.

And when someone finally chose a similar path, it almost felt like confirmation that I was right all along.

But I’ve learned that my path doesn’t become more right just because someone else chooses it too. And I don’t need to search for external validation to feel confident in the direction I’m going.

I can feel secure in my choices even when I’m the only one making them. That’s relieving 🤍

I hope you can feel it too some day. taken in San Pantaleo by @yogabymaike

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