Yoga Practices
If you’re lucky enough to live in Wellington, you may have found your way to...
I’m excited to announce the launch of The Yoga Lunchbox Store after signing...
by guest author Tyag Fenton, Wellington Satyananda Yoga Teacher Do you suffer...
by guest author Premratna (Sarah Spence) Over the last few years I have started...
Life is busy. Most of us are juggling some combination of work, family, socialising,...
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Yoga Community
by guest author Elissa Jordan When I step onto my mat at home for a personal practice...
In Part 1 of this article, we looked at booking a teacher, sorting out the timing...
Ok, so I’m a bit slow out of the box on this one as voting opened on April...
As the recent article on Gaura Yoga Bhakti Centre’s new Thursday night Vinyasa...
There are some fantastic yoga websites out there in the worldwide web, but finding...
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Yoga Teacher Profiles
It’s been a few weeks since The Yoga Lunchbox featured a yoga teacher from around the country, and it is my great delight to introduce you to Pavitra. Born in Germany, she discovered yoga through books at the age of 17. Already burning with a strong desire to know more about the mysteries of life, Pavitra didn’t let the lack of a real-life... [Read more of this review]
Kris didn’t even like yoga when she first started going to class, yet she stuck with it and says now that yoga has completely changed her world. She teaches using a step-by-step progression method, adjusting techniques for the body proportions and abilities of each student and says her teaching style emphasizes positive communication with constructive... [Read more of this review]
Australian-born Fiona Links fell in love with a kiwi (that’s him there in the photo with her) and as a result has ended up living and teaching in Taupo. Earlier this year, she and her partner Andrew spent an awesome two months living in Mysore, India, studying at the Astanga Yoga Research Institute with Sharath Jois. Extra studies also included... [Read more of this review]
It’s been great moving down to Dunedin because I’ve had the opportunity to meet a whole new crew of yoga teachers. Rachel is one of those teachers. She first got interested in yoga at the young age of 14 years, but didn’t feel comfortable in her first class so it was many years before she went back. Now, a few decades later, Rachel... [Read more of this review]
Emma’s one excited yoga teacher – she’s just bought the Dunedin Yoga Studio in Moray Place and will be taking over in early June. She’s been teaching yoga for about five years and used to teach scuba diving before that. A writer with several short stories and one poem published in literary magazines, Emma recently spent four... [Read more of this review]
He’s just brought his family to New Zealand from the UK – a home-coming for the Kiwi-born Greg, but a big adventure for his English wife and son. Like many people, a bad back got Greg into yoga and the impact it had on his mind and emotions got him hooked. The former self-professed tech geek is now a Sivananda-trained teacher. You can catch... [Read more of this review]
Sue’s yoga path started in the late ’70s in South Africa when she was initiated onto a path of meditational yoga – a path she still follows today. Hatha yoga followed soon afterwards and happily saw her through three pregnancies. When she moved to New Zealand, her three girls were very little, but once the youngest started school... [Read more of this review]
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