{"id":21809,"date":"2022-09-26T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/artikel\/51-fragen-an-sarah-elsing-ueber-bauhaus-yoga\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:19:39","slug":"51-questions-for-author-and-yoga-teacher-sarah-elsing-on-bauhaus-yoga","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/article\/51-questions-for-author-and-yoga-teacher-sarah-elsing-on-bauhaus-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"5+1 questions for author and yoga teacher Sarah Elsing on Bauhaus Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-contents'>\n\n<div  class='cf-rem-max-width container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">5+1 questions for author and yoga teacher Sarah Elsing on Bauhaus Yoga<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 21799,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264-300x220.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":220,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":9390},\"large\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264-1024x749.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":749,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":82796},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264-768x562.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":562,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":48216},\"small\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264-440x322.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":322,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":17544},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264-580x424.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":424,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":28541},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264-720x527.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":527,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":42208},\"original\":{\"file\":\"5b6fcbb1-3851-4585-9119-83d16e439264.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":878}},\n\"alt\" : \"Dancer in a dynamic pose, next to a graphic representation of lines and angles for motion analysis.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:73.166666666667%; 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In 5 +1 questions for Sarah Elsing, she tells us why chairs and tables are a source of inspiration and guides us through four poses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'><strong>Sarah, how did you get the idea to combine the Bauhaus with yoga?<\/strong><br><br>When I first practiced the \u201cchair\u201d asana almost twenty years ago, I immediately thought of the Wassily Chair, the Bauhaus classic by Marcel Breuer. It looks elegant but starts getting uncomfortable after a while. While I twisted my body into the yoga positions of the triangle, table and arch, the art and architecture critic in me immediately thought of the primary shapes by Wassily Kandinsky. Also the yogic concept of \u201csacred geometry\u201d, the idea that vital energy can only flow freely when the body is stretched in certain fundamental, recurring forms which are stably grounded and oriented to the human scale, reminded me of the rules of statics and the clarity and straightforwardness of Bauhaus aesthetics. And yet, not everything in the Bauhaus is strictly mathematical and rational. In his fundamental work \u201cPoint and Line to Plane\u201d, Kandinsky describes these shapes in a very poetic language. He even had them physically articulated by the expressive dancer Gret Palucca. 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Johannes Itten, the great esoteric of the Bauhaus, understood aesthetic education as a universal education which promotes one\u2019s development as a physical, spiritual and emotional unit. His preliminary course was \u2013 as he described it himself \u2013 about \u201cdeveloping the senses and increasing cognitive abilities and mental experience\u201d. The students were taught to physically loosen themselves up and relax, and free themselves from the corset of their prior academic training. Itten was wholly aligned with the protagonists of the rhythm movement of that time \u2013 civilisation critics, natural philosophers, dance, music and sport educators \u2013 and he viewed movement and rhythm as an existential, primal principle. He wanted his students to understand this organisational principle also as a physical experience. In my Bauhaus Yoga classes, I incorporate a lot of exercises from Itten\u2019s preliminary course which are vividly presented in the \u201coriginal bauhaus workbook\u201d. We also conduct some experiments which Kandinsky used in his own classes. His basic premise that \u201ceverything starts from a dot\u201d shapes my working method as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-zitat'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure class='wp-block-ho-quote '>\n\t\t\t<blockquote>\u201cTo me, everything belongs together: art, the body, architecture, music, literature.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Sarah Elsing<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>What I also like about the Bauhaus was its clear rejection of one-sided specialisation \u2013 despite the fact that the highest and brightest tier of the Bauhaus was devoted to training future architects. As a generalist myself who\u2019s involved in broadly diverse and seemingly contradictory areas, I find that people are often confused because they can\u2019t put me neatly into a box. To me, everything belongs together: art, the body, architecture, music, literature, thinking, feeling and sensual experience. The project of radically casting off conventions and working to create a new vision of how we want to live within a community of likeminded individuals is something that makes me feel euphoric even today. It\u2019s basically nothing else than the idea of sangha in Buddhism or satsang in yoga.<br><br><strong>You\u2019ve already given some yoga classes to our visitors. Can you recall any special moments or experiences you had? <\/strong><br><br>At the end of the class, we often do Kandinsky\u2019s gong exercise, with which he wanted to promote his students\u2019 synaesthetic abilities. Instead of tapping a gong, we all chant \u201cOm\u201d eight times. That alone is a bonding experience because after we\u2019ve done our exercises together, the group can usually chant in a harmonic and harmonious way. Recently one of the participants told me that while she was chanting, she had seen squares and triangles in primary colours, and another reported seeing violet waves. Neither of them had known beforehand that they were synaesthetically wired. That shows me that the knowledge and method I\u2019d like to convey can in fact be experienced in the mind and body, and in a relatively short time, can even trigger creative processes.<br><br>You will be holding yoga classes again at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv starting in November. Do you have a favourite Bauhaus Yoga pose that we could practice till then? <br><br>I recommend \u201cIce-skating with your arms\u201d, a variation on Itten\u2019s \u201cIce-skating on paper\u201d. You simply stand with your legs slightly apart and move your arms in elegant, sweeping motions. All the while, breathe deeply \u2013 ideally fresh air from outside. This helps against tiredness, back pain from sitting too long, it relieves the so-called \u201ctech neck\u201d, the stiff neck many of us suffer from caused by constantly staring at our smartphones. After that, our mind is freshly aired, and everything works much easier in my experience.<br><br><strong>When you say Bauhaus, many people immediately think architecture. Is there any place which is especially suited to Bauhaus Yoga?<\/strong><br><br>At this year\u2019s Bauhaus Festival in Dessau, we were fortunate enough to practice Bauhaus Yoga for a whole week at the historic Bauhaus and on a meadow in front of the Preller House, the famous Bauhaus dormitory. It was amazing and a little exciting for me to be able to practice, for example, in the classroom where Itten held his preliminary course. But basically, anyone can do these exercises in their living room at home. Chairs, tables, walls, ceilings and windowsills can be used as aids. But to become Bauhaus furniture, all you have to do is practice!<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern show-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/text-infobox'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-5'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight color-bg-fg-revsersed'>\n\n<div  class='margin-right-2 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 margin-left-2'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-rem-max-width cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-10 col-xs-10 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-4 text-align-center margin-top-4'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Sarah Elsing is an author, cultural journalist and yoga teacher. 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Having grown up with a mother who was fascinated with all things Bauhaus, she learned as a child why none of their guests ever voluntarily sat in the Wassily Chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/teaser-flexible-inhalte-call-to-action-bild-vollflachig'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='call-to-action-bild-vollflachig'>\n\n<div  class='call-to-action-bild-vollflachig-bg'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_FXWYQb\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 21806,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-300x166.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":166,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":81937},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-1024x567.png\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":567,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":803554},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-768x425.png\",\"width\":768,\"height\":425,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":475515},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-1536x851.png\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":851,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":1648153},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-440x244.png\",\"width\":440,\"height\":244,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":167727},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-580x321.png\",\"width\":580,\"height\":321,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":281401},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-720x399.png\",\"width\":720,\"height\":399,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":422241},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1-1280x709.png\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":709,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":1195989},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Sarah-Elsing-in-Yoga-Pose-im-tempo-c-Nico-Drimecker-1.png\",\"width\":1789,\"height\":991}},\n\"alt\" : \"Woman in a yoga pose on a mat, surrounded by two chairs, captured from a bird&#039;s-eye view.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.52,\"y\":0},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:55.39407490218%; 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