Virtual Yoga Sessions

Our 2025 conference was our first to feature yoga/relaxation sessions. These sessions, led by Swami Dhyānānanda, were designed as a way for conference participants to practice self care and self-solidarity in a friendly environment.

Swami is now offering virtual yoga sessions for members of the BGHRA community as part of her work with the Pranava Stiftung (foundation), which promotes intersectional healing, well-being, and self-care for all, no matter one’s religious affiliation or identity. Her overall aim “is to help underserved people find peace and fulfillment in life.” More information about Swami and Pranava can be found here.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact Swami via the contact form on her website, found here.

Swami Dhyānānanda Saraswati (previously Noah Sow) is an ordained monk in the traditions of Yoga and Advaita Vedānta. They are teaching self regulation for survivors of racism-induced CPTSD, and are offering intersectional and non-sectarian guidance.

Swami Dhyānānanda’s background spans over three decades in Afrodeutsche civil rights and empowerment. Having become a household name in the early 1990’s through a career in music, radio and television, as a host, singer, producer, editor, writer and composer, their book “Deutschland Schwarz Weiß” was published by Random House in 2008 and has since become a standard for learning the social mechanics of structural racism in German speaking countries, to the extent that it was a SPIEGEL Bestseller still in 2021. Based on hundreds of lectures and keynotes delivered all over the world, S.D. created a systematic course for successful racism-aware event planning, in which numerous public, academic, government and NGO groups train their new members each year, as do individual scholars.

S.D.’s last six years were dedicated strictly to monastery life for the study of Vedānta, Sanskrit and the associated disciplines, with no public talks.

online:

https://swamiblog.pranavastiftung.de/zur-person-about/