From the Body to the Overself: Beyond Hatha Yoga

Dewar Adair was born on 22 April 1954 in Newton Stewart, Scotland and grew up as the youngest of three children. At the age of 14 he began to ask himself questions about the big issues in life. Since then he has been fascinated by the connection between the body and the mind. After studying as an interpreter and translator, he used his scholarship to study the Critical Theory of the ’Frankfurt School’ at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt. It was here that he first came into contact with body-oriented psychotherapy, especially bioenergetics, and the writings and works of Wilhelm Reich and Gerda Boysen. From the early 80s onwards, he practised and taught the Japanese martial art Aikido in addition to his main job as a personnel developer for a large German company. Since 1998 he has been practicing hatha yoga, and his enthusiasm for it led him to do a yoga teacher training course (BDY/EYU). He has been teaching yoga since 2010. Dewar Adair is married and lives in Dortmund, Germany.