Potluck Goodness from the Archives
How yoga helped me… lose weight and feel good again
This is the first post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by Tash of Lower Hutt, winner of a Yoga Prize Package At fourteen years old, I felt completely depressed, empty inside and lost in the … [Read More...]
Latest & Freshest Articles
March 9 – 11: Anahata Yoga Retreat,The Art of Living and Dying with Yoga
Enter into the joy and clarity of the present moment! Gain liberating techniques to help face your fears, phobias and challenges of life. How could one know the art of dying if they have not experienced the art of living? Life and death together are a continuation of each other and this is called … [Read More...]
February 24 – 26: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Yoga Nidra – The Total Personality
The practice of Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ crosses all the layers of the human experience, supporting integration, relaxation and health on all levels. This retreat is open to all to receive the relaxing benefits of Yoga Nidra. It will also give yoga teachers, health care professionals, social … [Read More...]
On-Going from Jan 23 – May 27: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Explore Your ‘Self’ Interactive Lifestyle Retreats
Experience a 1 week Intro to a 1 month In Depth retreat, “living” yoga through active immersion into the daily life of Anahata. Receive support and a daily focus in guided intimate group sessions. Learn yogic principles to increase harmony and productivity in daily life. Enjoy regular … [Read More...]
An interview with Michelle Taffe, founder of The Global Yogi
Thanks to the connective and informative power of the Internet, it's never been so easy to find what you're looking for... and that includes in the yoga world too. Michelle Taffe, a Melbourne based yogi, writer and entrepreneur is the founder of The Global Yogi, a website dedicated to helping … [Read More...]
Featured Yoga Teacher
Dunedin Yoga Teacher: Jude Mahood
Jude is originally from Canada but for a long time has called New Zealand home. She has always had an interest in health and is a Registered Nurse, Registered Nutritionist and a yoga teacher in Dunedin. Originally, Jude got into nursing not for benevolent reasons, but because she wanted to … [Read More...]
Musings from the Mat
Even yoga and meditation can be a way to escape from reality
I rolled out my yoga mat this afternoon, grabbing an opportunistic moment to get in my practice. My lunch was well digested. The baby was sleeping. My partner was outside … [Read More...]
Wherein our Heroine gets to spend the afternoon with Yoda
I've just back from my weekend Journey Intensive with Brandon Bays in Auckland. It was A. Maze. Ing. Yep, amaaaaazing. 140 participants. 70 trainers. One Brandon Bays. … [Read More...]
Teaching Yoga
The Yoga of Business: Goals, Clarity, Values & Commitment, Part 2
by guest author Jenifer Parker, business owner of Healium, Wellington Clarity Drives the Process As we have all experienced, sometimes goals do not come to fruition even when … [Read More...]
An interview with Jenifer Parker on Healium Yoga Teacher Training
It seems that opportunities to train as a yoga teacher are sprouting up all over New Zealand. The latest to join us is an offering from newly-arrived American Jenifer … [Read More...]
Practicing Yoga
Inside the experience of a Loving-Kindness sadhana to day 29
Kundalini, or prana, rising up the spine Meditation is a cumulative experience. That is, the more you do it, the more you get it, the more you want to do it, the more you get … [Read More...]
How to answer: what exactly is the energy body?
by guest author Elissa Jordan It started with a story about a mouse in a toaster. Our second weekend in Nelson, as part of the Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Jenifer … [Read More...]
Starting Yoga
How yoga has the power to transform and release avidya (self-ignorance)
My first experience with the power of avidya came about twenty minutes into my third ashtanga yoga class. Or maybe my second. The exact number is not important, just that I was a … [Read More...]
Review of YoGoBolster, made by Kiwi company YoGoGear
Ever tried to go traveling with a yoga bolster? A mainstay prop for Iyengar practitioners, and beloved by many other yogis, a bolster provides support for restorative-style yoga … [Read More...]
