An interview with Vyayam Yoga teacher Yogitaratna on an up-coming Auckland workshop

Oh I LOVE the sound of this form of yoga – it’s history, it’s execution, it’s purpose… Originally the main training for warriors, Vyayam was prohibited from being practiced or taught for many years. You know something’s got power when the powers-that-be don’t want you doing it! Now Kiwis are super-fortunate to have Yogitaratna Chaitanya [...]

An interview with Barbara Coley on Svastha Yoga Teacher Training

T. Krishnamacharya is likely the man who’s had the biggest influence on the explosion of yoga in modern times. Born in 1888, he was by all accounts a legend. A Yoga Journal article written in 2001 by Fernando Pages Ruiz summed up Krishnamacharya’s immense contribution to yoga by saying: You may have never have heard [...]

An interview with Kausthub Desikachar, son of TKV Desikachar, grandson of Krishnamacharya

If you live in or close to Wellington, and are a serious student of yoga, there’s a seminar coming up that you won’t want to miss. Kausthub Desikachar, son and student of TKV Desikachar,  grandson of the great Yogi, T. Krishnamacharya is coming to Wellington to deliver the fourth in a series of in-depth seminars [...]

Why I’m going to let you pay a monthly subscription rate, if you want to

I’m so sorry faithful Yoga Lunchbox subscribers. I’ve been neglecting you, and your needs. All this time, I’ve been dishing up three or four great yoga articles every week and I’ve never once given you the option of paying for this incredible content. How remiss of me! Well, times are changing. I’m getting hip as [...]

Can you name all the yamas and niyamas from Patanjali’s Eight Limbs?

I’ve been contemplating a few things lately, both while on my mat and off my mat. Things like how yoga and business mix, what it means to be a yoga student, what it means to be a yogi, how our shadow sides present themselves and affect both us and the people around us, and what [...]

Taking yoga off the mat, into the world

by guest author Marianne Elliot My path to yoga came via a decade as a human rights advocate, an activist and a humanitarian worker. Amongst other things, I needed to learn the lessons of yoga in order to make my activism more compassionate and sustainable. These days I see no separation between my yoga and [...]

Auckland Yoga Teacher Barbara Coley

Once a financial controller, now owner of a yoga studio, Barbara Coley makes time in her life to visit India as often as she can to continue her studies with A.G. and Indra Mohan, both of whom were long-time personal students of Krishnamacharya. While she never dreamed that she would ever open a yoga studio, [...]

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