How much is a yoga class worth to you?

Six months or so ago, I launched Prana Flow yoga classes with the intention of carrying out a social experiment on value and yoga. I wanted to know: If people were allowed to determine the value of a 75 minute yoga class all by themselves, what value would they arrive at? Here’s the original article: [...]

Wellington Hot Yoga Teacher: Manu Moana

The Wellington yoga community is so blessed with a rich variety of yoga teachers – and Manu is another one of those teachers. He brings a youthful vigour into any room, and thinks nothing of breaking out into a few dances moves post-kirtan. It’s that kind of joyful expression of life that’s the best possible [...]

Why sangha (spiritual community) is the most precious thing on your path

In Buddhist practice, the three jewels of life – or the three refugees – are what you turn to for support, for guidance, and for friendship. These are: The Buddha nature – the ideal or highest spiritual potential that exists within all beings. The Dharma – the teachings of Buddha, or the path one walks [...]

Help me find or develop the ultimate ‘Find a Yoga Event in NZ’ tool

Imagine this. Access to an online calendar with New Zealand-wide yoga classes, events and retreats listed. You can search by location, type of event, style of yoga, cost, or teacher. It’s pretty, it’s functional, and it does what you want, how you want it to. No matter where you are, or what kind of yoga [...]

Queenstown Yoga Studio Owner & Teacher: Peggy Preston

Peggy Preston is owner of not just one, but two yoga studios – she’s one busy woman. Dedicated to the healing power of Bikram yoga, she’s also passionate about the benefits of Hatha yoga. Not willing to compromise on what she taught and what she offered her students, Peggy managed to open both studios, side-by-side [...]

What’s yoga got to do with climate action?

Well, plenty actually. And this is the perfect time to write about that connection. One, it’s International Blog Action Day, when bloggers around the world write about one topic that matters – this year the environment. And two, next Saturday October 24th is International Climate Action Day, also happening worldwide. Here in Wellington, there will [...]

Wellington Hot Yoga Teacher: Lou Cassella

How can you look at that photo of Lou and not want what he’s got? He doesn’t look like any 67 year old I’ve meet before, and there is such unselfconscious joy in his expression. Proof that it doesn’t matter when you come to yoga, Lou is half of the dream team behind Hot Yoga, [...]

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