Director Irene Graef

Countries Germany

Duration 90 min

Synopsis
The film accompanies the protagonists during their training to become yoga teachers. Their motivations are as diverse as the protagonists themselves. The are keen on teaching yoga as their job gives them too little fulfilment, they long for an emotional haven within the high performance society, they seek for some balance to their lone office job or they simply want to enter a deeper level of the philosophy and the life which the different yoga styles offer. The film tells us about searching for the meaning of life, experiencing your own body crossing mental borders – and about life in Berlin. Alongside with learning the basics of yoga, the training teaches the protagonists to have self esteem and to identify their personal weaknesses, contradictions, but also their strengths, talents and opportunities in their jobs and with their families and friends. They all do this by themselves and in the end master this challenge together. The four Berliners are watched in this process with cheerful attendance; they are accompanied during mental and physical exertion. The camera is with them during both emotional outbursts and moments of situation comic.