„Visualise the moment in which you reach the end of your path!“ Once or twice per year, Irina and Valentin from Yoga-Team Berlin organise a magical ritual in and around an old granary on Rügen. During the so-called “Feuerlauf” (fire walk), the roundabout twenty participants spend 10 hours with intense preparation of meditation, energy work, body work and reflection before they walk barefoot across a ten-metre-long path of the glowing, no burning, 900 degree hot embers from a pile of wood burnt down during the day. Without this intense preparation, even experienced fire walkers suffer severe burns. But if the participants, one by one, start the path with their mantra and walk towards their personal goal step by step at the end of the fire, no one is hurt. The heat wave shoots through the body and catapults toxins and negative thoughts out. Each and every one arrives at the other side unharmed. And afterwards, everything is different. Because if you can do that, if you can defy the boundaries of nature with you own, weak and totally normal body, then anything is possible! Just like bald monks can split rocks with their foreheads and seem to defy the laws of gravity, firewalking shows us what can be done with the power of our minds when we manage to concentrate entirely on one goal. It’s difficult to explain. And easier to experience for yourself. Dates and information can be found at www.yogateamberlin.de. It will change your life. So, we’ll see you on the other side. Liebekannalles #Dubistperfekt
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Feuerlauf on Rügen | Yoga Team Berlin | yogateamberlin.de | Photo: Yoga-Team Berlin
Only 4% of the 500 most profitable companies worldwide are led by women. Only 3% of technology start-ups are founded by women. And women receive less than 10% of all venture capital investments. How do we know that? From watching the insightful documentation „She started it“. For two years, the French journalist Nora Poggi and her team accompanied successful, young women in the start-up universe. Now, the feature length documentation is touring the world and presents five female founders under 30 that have the right stuff to be inspiring idols: 28 year-old Vietnamese Thuy Truong, for example, who develops mobile apps in the name of her own company in silicone valley. Or Brienne Ghafourifar, who collected over a million dollars in investments when she was 18 and founded her own tech start-up with it. The are so many stories out there about women who develop products, set up teams, gather capital, who fail and get back up again, who establish, negotiate and pitch. This exciting documentation is dedicated to them. It does open the old wound of discrimination but also shows what is possible. Be it as a man or as a woman. Or especially as a woman. We’re giving away two pairs of free tickets to the festival to the particularly busy amongst you. Send us an email headlining „PUSSY GALORE“ to hurra@muxmaeuschenwild.de.
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Filmpremiere ‚She Started It‘ | December 20th, 2016, 6-9pm | Factory Berlin, Rheinsberger Straße 76-77, 10115 Berlin | Free entry | Registration | Facebook | Trailer