How yoga has the power to transform and release avidya (self-ignorance)

My first experience with the power of avidya came about twenty minutes into my third ashtanga yoga class. Or maybe my second. The exact number is not important, just that I was a broke backpacker partway through a pre-paid ten week yoga course.
The teacher, a long, lanky woman in her early forties, brought us into [...]

What’s it like to do 108 sun salutations in a row?

Mention doing 108 sun salutations in a row to most people, even regularly practicing yogis, and their eyes widen as their mind says “No way!”
Yes way!
Not only can your average yoga practitioner easily complete 108 sun salutations, but it’s such an energizing practice, that at the end of 108, some people actually feel like they [...]

Is asana practice a totally over-rated part of yoga?

Think yoga, and likely you’ll think of a person bending their body into a posture. You’ll imagine the cover of Yoga Journal and think, that’s yoga.
Except it’s not.
It’s one aspect of Yoga – Hatha Yoga, or physical yoga.
Yoga has many paths one can walk, including Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Tantra Yoga, [...]

How to introduce your children to yoga

The power of yoga to improve the quality of life for our children is an untapped resource.
by guest author Amanda Reid of Samadhi Yoga
Although yoga has enjoyed popularity with adults for many years, it is only recently that we have come to understand how helpful it can be for children in their formative [...]

The joys of introducing yoga to children

Theresa is a former primary school teacher and now an office manager and yoga teacher at Wellington’s Hot Yoga Studio. She is teaching kids’ yoga classes there starting Wednesday April 22nd. See the bottom of the article for more details.
By guest author Theresa Bowen
Kids love movement and love exploring the potential of their bodies.  [...]

My nine favourite places to practice asana, pranayama and meditation

Part of my mission as a yoga teacher and writer is to show people that asana, pranayama and meditation can happen anywhere, anytime – not just in a yoga class, at a yoga studio, in a gym or on your mat at home.
Breaking free of our ideas of how asana, pranayama and meditation “should” be [...]

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