Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
See the end of this review for a chance to win a copy of Love and Happiness. I’m a sucker for snail mail. I’ll take just about anything if it’s going to come in the post. So when I was offered up a copy of Swami Govindananda’s Love and Happiness DVD I jumped at it. A few days later a lovely brown package showed up in my mail box. Unwrapping the packaging, I flipped it over to read the description on the back, I opened the case looked at each of the six discs, then put the … [Read more...]
The following information is not gospel - it's just my reflections and my understandings based on my own experience of Kundalini Awakening. As always, don't believe a thing I say unless it resonates in your heart and works for you. Except maybe the bit about checking in with a medical professional if you have any physical symptoms - do that regardless! So... what is Kundalini? Kundalini is the feminine, creative, evolutionary force of infinite wisdom that lives inside every single one … [Read more...]
Living in an intentional community in the city Given the discussions I often hear around me, and the positive reception from Jennifer’s recent article about family friendly spiritual communities, it seems like there are many people wanting to be involved at some level in a spiritually motivated community. Not only being a part of such a community group, there appears to be a growing swell of people wanting to live within a conscious and intentional community. I’ve co-created and … [Read more...]
by guest author Lori-Ellen Grant This article was written by my sister, Lori-Ellen Grant, owner of Wholebody Health in Christchurch. My heart went out to her after February's earthquake and I had to do something to support her - so I wrote this article How the Yoga Lunchbox community can tangibly support the Christchurch holistic health community. As a result, Chris & Evelyn at Bright Communications called Lori-Ellen and made a considerable donation towards providing treatments to … [Read more...]
As I’ve grown as a practitioner, I’ve liked group classes less and less. I remember being impressed by people in my yoga teacher training programs who were there only to enhance home practice. While I was there to learn to teach, home practice is so integral to teaching that I’ve barely bothered to take any group classes since graduating my first Yoga Teacher Training in 2004. I like it that way. But why? Group class teachers aren’t bad, or offensive. Some are downright … [Read more...]
Last week's article, Dude, where's my teacher, totally surprised me. I didn't expect people to resonate with it so much. There were all kinds of comments, as it flitted around the social media sky. The weird thing was, I'd written it on the Sunday night, exhausted, out of time, just wanting to go to bed, and I thought it had sucked. I knew I hadn't captured the most important nuances of my search for a Real Yoga Teacher. So I'm back to dish up those nuances and set the record … [Read more...]
