Breathing into life

Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic massage therapist Christine Döring is helping Overbergers realise their joyous full potential through ancient Indian holistic practices, writes Sarah Taylor.

Early on in her television acting career in the mid-1990s, whenever Christine Döring stepped onto the stage or in front of the camera, she developed stage fright and couldn’t breathe.

“When I stumbled across a magazine article about yoga and breath, I realised I wasn’t breathing properly. None of my singing and acting training had taught me how to relax. In fact, I had been taught to breathe, to sing, from my chest and not from my belly, which is completely the wrong way,” explains Christine, who was born in Germany, trained originally to be a nurse and now lives between Hermanus and Potsdam/Berlin.

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