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Wellington Bikram Yoga Teacher: Anika Speedy

November 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Anika Speedy, Bikram Yoga Teacher

Of all the styles of yoga one can practice, few are as controversial, or as demanding as Bikram Yoga. Created by Bikram Choudhury on the guidance of his guru, Bishnu Charan Ghosh, Bikram is specifically designed to heal the Western body. In fact, Bikram spent a few years in a Japanese Hospital working with doctors in order to put the series together. Bikram, a former weight-lifting champion who destroyed his knees, is proof of the power of yoga. At 17, European doctors told him he would never … [Read more...]

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Review of Yoga Foundations DVD: Hillary Rubin

November 21, 2008 By 4 Comments
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I love this yoga DVD. No qualms about it, for people who want to practice yoga at home, this is unreservedly the best yoga DVD I have ever seen for this purpose. Granted, I haven't seen more than a handful of yoga DVDs, but I will be recommending this DVD to people. Hillary Rubin teaches for the beginner, but her teaching style is so rewarding that even experienced practitioners will enjoy using her Yoga Foundations DVD - I know I did. … [Read more...]

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Wellington Satyananda Yoga Teacher: Tyag Fenton

November 19, 2008 By 16 Comments
Tyag, Satyananda Wellington Yoga Teacher

It is my pleasure to introduce the second of my profiles of Wellington Yoga Teachers. I found Tyag and his Satyananda classes through a retreat I booked for, but was unable to attend. It was enough to get me on his mailing list though, and when I saw a Bhakti Yoga night advertised in my inbox, I was intrigued, and went along. Bhakti Yoga is the Yoga of Devotion. It's all about the heart, and includes kirtan and mantra and music. Never much one for singing, it was a whole new world for … [Read more...]

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Will yoga give me a great body?

November 17, 2008 By 18 Comments
Prana Flow site author Kara-Leah Grant

Google Analytics provides a wealth of information regarding the type of search phrases that people have used to find my site. Lately this, or a variant of it, has been popular. So, will yoga give you a great body? The short answer is... YES. The more interesting answer is that as you practice yoga, your perception and understanding of what a "great body" is will change. And even more interesting... the concept that happiness is reliant upon creating specific circumstances (i.e. when … [Read more...]

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What do you mean ‘We are all One’?

November 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We live in a quantum universe

In his book, The Elements of Yoga, Godfrey Devereux uses physics to explain how our perspective can limit our understanding of 'reality' He says: While we perceive a tree as solid, if we change our frame of reference and perceive a tree from the viewpoint of an electron, a neutrino or any of the elusive sub-atomic particles which populate the Universe of quantum physicists, it melts into a vortex of dancing, scintillating energy. ... Material objects, viewed as fields of energy, do not … [Read more...]

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How do I open my third eye?

November 13, 2008 By 18 Comments

Many people may think the concept of the third eye is metaphorical, or even mythical. But all of the concepts explained through yoga, including chakra and maya kosha (the five bodies) are experiential. That is, as you practice yoga, you actually experience the reality that these concepts explain. After all - how do you think these ideas come about in the first place? They weren't made up, or imagained. Yogis experienced them in their practice and then described the reality they were … [Read more...]

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