How yoga helped me find my fortune in the big city

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 [...]

Christchurch Anusara Yoga 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 [...]

An interview with Insight Dialogue author and 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 [...]

How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? Part II

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 [...]

Bay of Plenty Yoga Teacher Profile: 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 interview with Swami Muktimurti about the power of sound to transform

There is a rich Satyananda Yoga tradition in New Zealand, which means we are fortunate to often play host to traveling Satyananda Swamis from around the world.
Next month (March 2010), Anahata Retreat just outside of Nelson is hosting Swami Muktimurti from Mangrove Mountain near Mountain. An expert in Mantra and ancient Sanskrit, she is hosting [...]

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 day, [...]

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 and all [...]

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