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My Yoga Online co-founder: Kreg Weiss

November 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
My Yoga Online co-founder Kreg Weiss

He's the co-founder of on the internet's most popular streaming yoga classes website, My Yoga Online. Vancouver-based Kreg Weiss was competing in national-level sports when he first discovered yoga. Like so many, that exposure to yoga completely changed the way Kreg saw health and fitness. He's now completed his Bachelor's degree in Human Kinetics and Health Sciences at UBC and uses his extensive background in anatomy and physiology  to educate and safely guide his students in how asanas, … [Read more...]

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My third eye’s a’twitchin’ – does that mean she’s awakening?

November 24, 2010 By 11 Comments
Kara-Leah

My third eye has been twitching all afternoon, a sensation which started during my recent trip to LA for teacher training with Shiva Rea. The last time I can remember it doing this I was sitting in a Wellington restaurant with my Aunt, who's a straight-up, salt of the earth, farmer and local government politician turned Minister of Parliament. I'd just flown back from Canada, about a week after having two psychotic episodes, being committed to the Acute Psych Ward of Lions Gate Hospital, … [Read more...]

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Want to own a slice of NZ’s premier online yoga magazine?

November 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
Kara-Leah, YLB publisher, editor, sales manager, business development manager, admin & accounts...

I finally gotta admit it. I can't keep doing this website all on my lonesome. I need help taking The Yoga Lunchbox to the next level - which means there's an awesome opportunity here for a yoga-minded, tech-savy, online business guru with a passion for serving the yoga community. The Yoga Lunchbox has been steadily growing over the last year, evolving out of my own personal yoga blog, Prana Flow NZ, into NZ's premier online magazine. No longer just my take on 'life lived through a … [Read more...]

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How yoga helped me… recover from drug and alcohol addiction

November 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Looking for belonging

This is an on-going series of yoga stories from readers about how yoga has made a difference their life. To contribute your story, click here. Submitted by Clare S. (not her real name) of New Zealand Coming from a dysfunctional family, it is not really a surprise that I got involved with punk rockers and street kids in my early teens. I felt a sense of belonging, I was needed. I brought them food and snuck them home for showers and meals. It didn't take long for me to get into the … [Read more...]

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Horowhenua Yoga Teacher: Peter Macdonald

November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Horowhenua Yoga Teacher Peter Macdonald

Peter Macdonald of More Yoga is a Horowhenua-based certified organic farmer and Yoga teacher. He's shared his life for the last 30 years with his partner Rose Boyle, an example of commitment and union if there ever was one. Peter says he's in his ‘third or fourth career’ life. He first trained as a research biochemist; specialising in protein chemistry and how human immune responses are regulated. Then he was posted overseas as a Trade Commissioner, helping exporters find new … [Read more...]

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Wanderlust Yoga & Music Festival 2011 dates announced

November 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Wanderlust 2011 dates announced

Wanderlust is the world's premier yoga & music festival, and the dates for the third annual festival, Wanderlust 2011, have just been announced. Billed as a place to relax, unwind, bend, dance, revel, and contemplate, USA-based (for now) Wanderlust creates a community of like-minded people who share a common set of interests and values.  Bringing together a cross-pollination of yogis, musicians, festival-goers, and the curious, Wanderlust gives everybody a chance to escape the mundane … [Read more...]

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