Welcome - This Is Where It Begins

Welcome. I'm so glad you're here.This first episode is an honest introduction: Who I am, what I do  and why this podcast has been quietly waiting to begin for longer than I'd like to admit.I share a little about my path - from growing up in East Germany to becoming a world champion rower at 17, through years in medical science, psychology and research, to twenty-plus years of Ashtanga yoga, Ayurveda and nervous system work. And the part that maybe matters most: What I learned from my own journey through striving, disconnection, overgiving and finding my way back to myself.What I've come to believe, and what this podcast is built around, is that the missing piece is almost never more effort or more information. It's something quieter. Safety felt in the body, not just understood in the mind. Rhythm. A real sense of coming home to yourself.In Ashtanga, in Ayurveda, in coaching - the thread is always the same: Working with your system, not against it. That's what I care about, and that's what we'll keep coming back to here.Whether you've tried a lot and something still isn't quite landing, or you're a yoga practitioner quietly curious about what lies beneath the practice - I think you might find something here.More of my work lives at www.maximeissner.nl. Come say hello on Instagram here or LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximeissner/