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 [...]

What if yoga is like religion?

by guest author Melissa Billington, from MYOGA For years I’ve seen the fear people have around Yoga, some claiming it’s a cult or a religion and refusing to take part because they would be seen by the upholders of their own religion as hypocritical or blasphemous.  Many yoga styles and schools are based in a [...]

Review of Yoga for Relaxation, a Yoga Nidra CD by Tyag Fenton

by guest author and Dunedin Yoga teacher Rachel Dalley, who recently won a copy of Tyag’s Yoga for Relaxation CD. In an interview with the Yoga Lunchbox, Tyag Fenton comments that the most common forms of relaxation and attempted stress relief work to distract and obscure rather than clarify and assist our individual quests for [...]

Turning Yin – an insider’s look at Yin Yoga

by guest author Jessica Powers While my official Yoga anniversary celebrates the January 2001 DVD sale that got me started, I was doing Yoga back in high school without knowing. In the afternoons I would come in the kitchen door, drop my bags on the table and carry on into the dining room: I only [...]

Is it wrong to mix different yoga traditions in one practice?

by guest author Elissa Jordan When I step onto my mat at home for a personal practice I see it as my practice. It is a practice made up of teachers, books,workshops and what feels good for my body at that time. It’s got elements of Astanga, Acro Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar, Sivananda and Kundalini. [...]

How yoga can ease the shift to a brand new city

by guest author Elissa Jordan I miss Jaqui. I was a happy Canadian girl living in London. I had my push bike and my belly dancing and my charity job. I had friends and I had my yoga. Then I met a Kiwi boy and fell in love. And now I’m in Wellington. A whole [...]

Equaniminity and the dying mouse

by guest author Alys Titchener, author of blog Squashed Mosquito. Below is a story I wrote about being open. Why? Because I found that when I shared this story at a meditation workshop earlier this year, there was a lot of empathy for the situation. And a real life story can start to build up a [...]

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