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 [...]

An interview with India-based meditation teacher Tarun Kumar

Meditation. Why is everyone getting so excited about it?
Could be because it works – on many different levels.
In March & April of this year New Zealanders will have a chance to find out why meditation is so powerful from India-based meditation expert Tarun Kumar.
Back by popular demand, Tarun is touring the country for the [...]

Kickstart 2010: After 30 days, what next?

If you started with me on 15 January then you are coming to the end of your 30 days. If you started later, it doesn’t make any difference because the point, now that I can be totally honest with you, is not to practice yoga every day for 30 days. The point is to make space every day to practice yoga.

How to apply the right yoga practice to your daily life

Life is busy.
Most of us are juggling some combination of work, family, socialising, passions & hobbies and health & well-being. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, the things that we know make us feel the best – like regular yoga practice – can be the most difficult to maintain.
This is especially true when we go through [...]

Kickstart 2010: Are we having fun yet?

If you started your 30 days of yoga sadhana on January 15th then you’ve been practicing for 10 days now. You are one third of the way through your sadhana.
Are you having fun yet?
Maybe that seems like a strange question. Maybe you expect yoga to be serious?
It is. At least, it is profound. My experience [...]

Effects of the Sankalpa in Satyananda Yoga Nidra – Manifesting the positive

By Guest Author Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat

Many people on the yogic path are committed to self transformation.
This active focus on growth may ignite questioning of one’s own behaviour.  Sometimes, there is genuine desire to change a particular habit or pattern, but try as one may, the cause of the action can be elusive!
Whether [...]

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