Five things I learned in 2009 from my yoga and meditation practice

Kara-Leah, 38 weeks pregnant

What a year! Getting pregnant. Completing the renovations on our home. Selling it privately. Making the heart-breaking decision to leave my partner at 7 months pregnant... ... only to witness a miracle of transformation that brought us back together in the most incredible space. And of course teaching yoga, sharing yoga, practicing yoga, learning yoga, loving yoga... ...all while holding down a full-time public service job and witnessing firsthand the goings-on within … [Read more...]

Kickstart 2010 with a commitment to your yoga practice

by guest author Marianne Elliot Okay – as promised – here is everything you need to know to join me in starting 2010 with yoga. I’ll be starting my 30 day sadhana (Kara-Leah wrote more about sadhana, what they are and why we do them here) on 15 January because it is the first new moon of the year and that’s generally a great time to start new things. I’m inviting you to join me. Make your own commitment. My commitment is to practice a particular set of asana, pranayama and … [Read more...]

Broken Warriors – reaching out to prisoners with yoga

Adhyatma, teaching yoga to prisoners

by guest author Adhyatma, Srinivasa Yoga House, Hamilton I first came across the idea of teaching Yoga to prison inmates when I was staying in an ashram in the northern parts of Bihar, India. I had traveled there without much prior knowledge of why I was really going there, what I was in for, or how it had even happened so easily, and so quickly in my life. But it had! I had been attending some Yoga classes in Mt Eden, Auckland for a couple of years with a Satyananda yoga teacher before … [Read more...]