Yoga Community
An interview with Insight Dialogue author and teacher Gregory Kramer
New Zealand is blessed next month with the arrival of Gregory Kramer, an American...
How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? Part II
It’s one of the most popular questions that I get through this website, via...
An interview with Swami Muktimurti about the power of sound to transform
There is a rich Satyananda Yoga tradition in New Zealand, which means we are fortunate...
Free yoga day in Hamilton – find the right type of yoga for you
If you live anywhere near Hamilton, it’s worth planning a trip to the Celebrating...
An interview with India-based meditation teacher Tarun Kumar
Meditation. Why is everyone getting so excited about it? Could be because it works...
How you can have a taste of ashram life, right here in New Zealand
by guest author Amrita Visualise… …a daily life of hatha yoga,...
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Musings from the Mat
How yoga helped me find my fortune in the big city
Two years ago my partner and I left Arrowtown to seek our fortunes in the big city. I’d...
Confessions from a living room dancefloor
I love to dance. Really love to dance. It’s been my passion ever since I was...
Five things I learned in 2009 from my yoga and meditation practice
What a year! Getting pregnant. Completing the renovations on our home. Selling it...
How yoga supercedes the need for political correctness
OK. Here’s what we need to do to shift this whole PC thing that has infected our...
The path to true abundance lies within
We live in an infinitely abundant universe. This is a fact. Stare up at a clear sky...
Why forgiveness of self is part of the yogic path toward samadhi (bliss)
Years of yoga practice has peeled away layers and layers of behaviours and thought...
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Yoga Teacher Profiles
Christchurch Anusara Yoga Teacher: Katie Lane
I’m delighted to introduce our first Christchurch yogi, and our first Anusara teacher. Anusara means “flowing with Grace,” “flowing with Nature,” and “following your heart”, and it was founded by John Friend in 1997. It’s a style of hatha yoga with an uplifting philosophy, epitomized by a “celebration of the heart,”... [Read more of this review]
Bay of Plenty Yoga Teacher Profile: Radhe
It’s my pleasure to introduce another Satyananda yogi from around the country. Like many of the Satyananda yogis, Radhe has a long history of yoga, first coming into contact with it in the 1970s. She’s going to be at the up-coming free yoga day in Hamilton sharing her many years of yoga experience. Radhe is also an admin on The Yoga Lunchbox... [Read more of this review]
Wellington Yoga Teacher: Melissa Billington of MYOGA
Born and bred in the United States, Melissa now calls New Zealand her home. You may have caught her on TV One’s Good Morning Show, distilling her wealth of yoga knowledge and understanding down into a five minute snippet digestible and accessible to the daytime TV audience. It’s something that takes considerable skill, but Melissa was brought... [Read more of this review]
Hamilton Satyananda Yoga Teacher: Samadhimurti
Samadhimurti has practised yoga since her early 20s. Deeply inspired, she lived in the Satyananda Ashram New Zealand for two years in the 1980s, where she also learned to teach yoga. During the following 18 years of parenting, she explored different lifestyles, including living on an island and in a communally owned, solar-powered, permaculture village. Schooling... [Read more of this review]
Orewa Yoga Teacher: Natasha Rainger
Heading even further north this week, it’s my pleasure to introduce Natasha from Orewa, proving that New Zealand is well served by yoga teachers, no matter where you live. Like a few of our teachers, she caught the bug early, attending her first class at 14. It makes me wonder what can of change we could create if yoga become part of the high... [Read more of this review]
Auckland Yoga Teacher: Katy Carter
It’s such a pleasure to introduce our first Auckland yoga teacher, Katy Carter. Not only does she teach yoga, but she also works for a New Zealand yoga clothing company, We’ar Yoga Cothing. I’ve yet to buy anything from the range – mainly due to being pregnant – but have spent time browsing the We’ar online store,... [Read more of this review]
Wellington Yoga Teacher: Jessica Latton
Before I started publishing yoga teacher profiles, I erroneously thought most yoga teachers were just coming from the physical, teaching asana (postures) and not much else. How wrong I’ve been proved. In profile after profile, New Zealand yoga teachers are revealing their depth of understanding of yoga’s spiritual side. They do so with humour,... [Read more of this review]
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