Confessions from a living room dancefloor

I love to dance. Really love to dance. It’s been my passion ever since I was eight years old and first saw Flashdance. There was something about that movie, and the main character that sang to my soul. Here was a woman who defied the mainstream in all respects – Alex was a welder by [...]

Free yoga day in Hamilton – find the right type of yoga for you

If you live anywhere near Hamilton, it’s worth planning a trip to the Celebrating Age Centre at 30 Victoria Street on March 13th. That’s where a wide variety of yoga teachers and organisations are coming together to showcase everything yoga’s got to offer at the Open Yoga Forum. And best of all, the entire day [...]

Wellington Yoga Teacher: Melissa Billington of MYOGA

Born and bred in the United States, Melissa now calls New Zealand her home. You may have caught her on TV One’s Good Morning Show, distilling her wealth of yoga knowledge and understanding down into a five minute snippet digestible and accessible to the daytime TV audience. It’s something that takes considerable skill, but Melissa [...]

The beginner’s guide to yoga: Part 2

Part 1 of this series in the Beginner’s Guide to Yoga gave you a heads-up on things to be aware of before rocking along to your first yoga class. You might have been to a few classes now and so have got your head around the right clothes to wear, how to fuel your body [...]

An interview with India-based meditation teacher Tarun Kumar

Meditation. Why is everyone getting so excited about it? Could be because it works – on many different levels. In March & April of this year New Zealanders will have a chance to find out why meditation is so powerful from India-based meditation expert Tarun Kumar. Back by popular demand, Tarun is touring the country [...]

Hamilton Satyananda Yoga Teacher: Samadhimurti

Samadhimurti has practised yoga since her early 20s. Deeply inspired, she lived in the Satyananda Ashram New Zealand for two years in the 1980s, where she also learned to teach yoga. During the following 18 years of parenting, she explored different lifestyles, including living on an island and in a communally owned, solar-powered, permaculture village. Schooling [...]

Kickstart 2010: After 30 days, what next?

If you started with me on 15 January then you are coming to the end of your 30 days. If you started later, it doesn’t make any difference because the point, now that I can be totally honest with you, is not to practice yoga every day for 30 days. The point is to make space every day to practice yoga.

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