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 [...]

The beginner’s guide to yoga: Part 1

Entering a yoga studio, or a yoga class for the very first time can be an intimidating experience. Everybody else looks so confident and relaxed and sure of themselves. They’re all stronger and fitter and leaner and bendy as all hell. But every single person in that room was once a beginner – including the [...]

Why the Government needs to make Bikram yoga compulsory

There is one simple action that the Government could take which would slash hospital waiting lists. It would turn us from a nation of porkies into a nation of bendies. Plus it would seriously put a dent in the increasing number of us who are living with mental illness at some stage in our lives. [...]

Wellington yogi Kelly Fisher interviewed on Forever Fitness

Co-owner of Wellington’s Yoga Unlimited, Kelly Fisher, has just been interviewed on Forever Fitness by Ish and Bevan. It’s a great 30 minute podcast, and well worth a listen (click to hear). If you’ve never listened to a podcast before, and get antsy siting at the computer listening away… throw it on and do what [...]

Journeys with Satyananda in Rikhia – one yogi tells all

by guest author Christopher Gladwell There was a time in my life when there was so much unresolved emotional trauma that I sought to dampen the pain of being alive. I don’t know if you have ever been through this or indeed if you still regularly seek anaesthetic experiences? For me, this manifested in some [...]

What is a sadhana and why do I need one in my life?

Regular readers will well remember I started a forty day sadhana (spiritual practice) oh… a few months ago. It was an Infinite Wealth and Prosperity meditation, and I was loving doing it. But then something happened. I found out I was pregnant, and as this particular meditation involved stomach pumps (a no-no for pregnant women), [...]

How do I know what type of meditation would suit me?

This is a question a reader posed to me this week: How do I know what type of meditation will suit me? How will you know? And possibly more interesting, how can I possibly know what meditation might suit you, especially when I don’t know ‘you’ at all? So there is really no answer to [...]

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