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Wellington Hot Yoga Teacher: Lou Cassella

October 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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, pairing up with his wife Claire to build and design yoga studios. Lately he's being holding sell-out posture clinics at the Wellington Studio, and has just announced the dates for Wellington's only yoga teacher … [Read more...]

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How yoga has the power to transform and release avidya (self-ignorance)

October 13, 2009 By 6 Comments
KL experimenting in a variation of Virabdrasana I

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 broke backpacker partway through a pre-paid ten week yoga course. The teacher, a long, lanky woman in her early forties, brought us into Warrior One - Virabhadrasana I. My hips were skewed decidedly sideways. My back heel struggled to connect with the floor. My arms were crooked and screamed in protest as I … [Read more...]

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Wellington Yoga Teacher: Bridget Kelly

October 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Wellington Yoga Teacher Bridget Kelly

If the sounds of the sea providing a back-drop for your yoga class and home made chai served up afterwards sounds like your cup of tea, then Bridget Kelly's Yoga by the Sea is for you. A musician and a dancer who brings an ethereal grace to her practice, Bridget is one of the many yoga teachers you'll find scattered all over New Zealand, teaching in schools halls, church halls and in rotundas. Like those many teachers, she's made her classes her own - and even offers up the recipe for that … [Read more...]

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How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher?

October 7, 2009 By 12 Comments
Sharing Mudra, the joys of teaching yoga

This is something people email me all the time to ask - what courses do I need, where do I find them, how much do they cost? And yoga teacher training courses are often great - full immersion in the world of yoga for a set period of time including guidance from a great teacher or two. Wonderful stuff. But see, here's the thing. If you want to be a yoga teacher, it doesn't start with heading off on a course to learn stuff from other people so you can then teach other people's stuff to … [Read more...]

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