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An interview with Claire Szabo-Cassella on the Hot Yoga Teacher Training programme

March 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hot Yoga Teacher Training with Lou Cassella

In keeping with our recent exploration of what it takes to be a yoga teacher, the Yoga Lunchbox spoke to Claire at Hot Yoga to find out more about their six month teacher training programme. It's one of the few teacher training programmes available in New Zealand, and starts every year in July. Why does Hot Yoga of New Zealand hold this training? Our first studio in Nelson grew so quickly and the demand for more classes and certified teachers within New Zealand was pressing. We always … [Read more...]

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How yoga helped me find my fortune in the big city

March 12, 2010 By 15 Comments
KL - finding a place to be

Two years ago my partner and I left Arrowtown to seek our fortunes in the big city. I'd been following my twin passions of writing and yoga as a freelancer in Queenstown, but was struggling financially in a big way. Everything I tried to do, I came up against brick walls- left, right and centre. Nothing seemed to be working for me at all. After a short three day trip to Wellington over the summer of 2008, I knew that Wellington was where I needed to be. Fortunately, it was where my … [Read more...]

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Christchurch Anusara Yoga Teacher: Katie Lane

March 10, 2010 By 4 Comments
Anusara Teacher Katie Lane

I'm delighted to introduce our first Christchurch yogi, and our first Anusara teacher. Anusara means “flowing with Grace,” “flowing with Nature,” and “following your heart", and it was founded by John Friend in 1997. It's a style of hatha yoga with an uplifting philosophy, epitomized by a "celebration of the heart," that looks for the good in all people and all things. That goodness and that delight shines forth clearly in Katie's answer to the questions below. She may be … [Read more...]

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An interview with Insight Dialogue author and teacher Gregory Kramer

March 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Insight Dialogue teacher Gregory Kramer

New Zealand is blessed next month with the arrival of Gregory Kramer, an American practitioner and teacher of Insight Meditation. Gregory is also the co-founder and director of the Metta Foundation, Portland, Oregon, a center of Buddhist practice in the Insight Meditation tradition. He has developed a practice that takes meditation off the mat and into interpersonal relationships, as outlined in his book Insight Dialogue. One review of this work from Joseph Goldstein, author of Insight … [Read more...]

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How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? The teachers respond

March 5, 2010 By 2 Comments

It's one of the most popular questions that I get through this website, via the facebook page, and in Google searches. People want to know how to become a yoga teacher and they want to know about teaching yoga as a career. I took a stab at answering this in my first post How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher?, but the questions kept coming, so I thought it would be wise to open it up to the wider yoga community. Here's the first in a series of responses on what it takes to be a yoga … [Read more...]

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Bay of Plenty Yoga Teacher Profile: Radhe

March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bay of Plenty Yoga Teacher Radhe

It's my pleasure to introduce another Satyananda yogi from around the country. Like many of the Satyananda yogis, Radhe has a long history of yoga, first coming into contact with it in the 1970s. She's going to be at the up-coming free yoga day in Hamilton sharing her many years of yoga experience. Radhe is also an admin on The Yoga Lunchbox Facebook page, letting us know what's going on in yoga for the Bay of Plenty area. Congratulations to Shannon Patinkin, winner of the February … [Read more...]

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