March 11: Nelson, Energetic Vinyasa Flow Workshop with Kara-Leah

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NOTE: This workshop is now scheduled for Sunday March 11th, due to bad weather for travel. Energetic Vinyasa Flow - The Evolution of Yoga*** Liberate your practice! Learn how to allow asana to emerge as a natural unfolding Relax into moment by moment expression of prana Experience alignment as a dynamic, ever-renewing & ever-changing relationship with prana Learn how to integrate method or form with intuition or inner knowing Kara-Leah is a certified 200 Hr Prana Flow Yoga … [Read more...]

Introducing “Yoga on a Plate:” A New Column for the Yoga Lunchbox

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by new regular columnist Valerie Love, Yoga on a Plate If you asked me to name the things—people not included—that make me happiest, yoga and good food would be at the top of the list. So writing a column that combined my passions for both of those things seemed like a no-brainer. Except that the more I began to sit down and think about it, the more challenging and the more daunting it became. Many of us, whether yogis or not, have complicated relationships with food at some point in … [Read more...]

March 9 – 11: Anahata Yoga Retreat,The Art of Living and Dying with Yoga

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Enter into the joy and clarity of the present moment! Gain liberating techniques to help face your fears, phobias and challenges of life. How could one know the art of dying if they have not experienced the art of living? Life and death together are a continuation of each other and this is called existence. As we travel through life, we are paving the way and determining the quality of our departure. Death is not the end of existence but a face of it; just as the moon has two faces. Rather … [Read more...]

February 24 – 26: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Yoga Nidra – The Total Personality

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The practice of Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ crosses all the layers of the human experience, supporting integration, relaxation and health on all levels. This retreat is open to all to receive the relaxing benefits of Yoga Nidra. It will also give yoga teachers, health care professionals, social workers and educators an insight into a very powerful and ancient practice that is highly applicable to the challenges of modern life. Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ has a profound impact on the mind … [Read more...]

An interview with Michelle Taffe, founder of The Global Yogi

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Thanks to the connective and informative power of the Internet, it's never been so easy to find what you're looking for... and that includes in the yoga world too. Michelle Taffe, a Melbourne based yogi, writer and entrepreneur is the founder of The Global Yogi, a website dedicated to helping yogis check out yoga around the world. The YLB spoke to Michelle to find out more about her website, who it's aimed at, and the challenges of starting an internet-based business. What inspired you … [Read more...]

February 26: Auckland, Positive Balance Yoga Summer Wellbeing Retreat

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Positive Balance is super excited to announce its first Wellbeing Retreat! Come and join us for a day of bliss – leave all your worries and obligations behind and spend a beautiful day focusing on fabulous YOU and your wellbeing! The retreat will take place on Sunday 26th February 2012 at the very Zen location of Kawai Purapura, which is in a stunningly gorgeous native bush setting just off the old Albany Highway on Mill Lane. The day itself will feature a fabulously blissful itinerary … [Read more...]