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How to organise a super successful yoga event Part 1

July 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Organising a super successful yoga event takes mindfulness

So there I was, at Swami Govindanda's talk. I'd traveled some 10 hours round trip to be there and I wasn't disappointed. Swami Ji, as he's affectionately known, was great. Compassion, warm, engaging, clear, illuminating. What a treat! Yet I was one of only a handful of people who'd turned out on that frosty cold Queenstown night to hear Swami Ji talk, despite the fact that Queenstowners only had to drive ten minutes to be there. And that got me thinking - it's one thing to offer to host a … [Read more...]

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How teachers and studios can infuse their businesses with yogic principles

May 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
Yoga community

As yoga infiltrates the western world more and more- with yoga studios popping up in every town and yoga teachers plying their services everywhere from gyms to businesses to schools to community halls - there is a huge opportunity for all teachers to embody the principles of yoga within the business world. Perhaps the biggest principle that we can adopt is that of union - the word yoga means 'to yoke' or 'to bind', and is often translated as Union. There are many ways to interpret this - … [Read more...]

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Why good marketing is good for yoga and good for yoga teachers

April 10, 2010 By 13 Comments
Mats waiting for yoga students

I've been having conversations lately with friends who would like to reap the benefits from a regular yoga practice. They see what it's done for me, so have no doubt yoga can do amazing things for the body. There's likely people like this all over the world. People with injuries they know would benefit from yoga. People who are getting older and would like to maintain their suppleness and strength with yoga. People who need the mental release and clarity from regular yoga … [Read more...]

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How much is a yoga class worth to you? Readers respond

November 10, 2009 By 12 Comments
'Pacifica' by Wellington artist Josephine Morey, click image to learn more or buy from her website

There were so many comments and emails that came in form my original post, How much is a yoga class worth to you?, that I wanted to address everything that was raised in a follow-up post. It's been fascinating to hear everybody's point of view, and hear some suggestions about how to handle the payment of classes. Reading through all of these, it become clear to me where I hadn't been clear. … [Read more...]

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How much is a yoga class worth to you?

October 30, 2009 By 21 Comments
The Goddess of Spiritual and Material Wealth, Lakshmi

Six months or so ago, I launched Prana Flow yoga classes with the intention of carrying out a social experiment on value and yoga. I wanted to know: If people were allowed to determine the value of a 75 minute yoga class all by themselves, what value would they arrive at? Here's the original article: Prana Flow Yoga launches classes where students decide how much to pay. Now my experiment had some limitations. Because it was also designed to remove financial barriers to yoga, so that … [Read more...]

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How to successfully create a yoga career

March 23, 2009 By 15 Comments
Is this the life I want?

Inspired by Yoga For Change: Part 1 written by Margaret Burns Vap It starts with a yoga class to deal with stress, or injury. You walk out of class every week feeling like a million dollars and you wonder, "What can I do to feel this way more often?". So you start doing more yoga. Maybe you go on a retreat. Life begins to change. You begin to change. … [Read more...]

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