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An interview with Allyson Donnelly, Director of Programming at Abundance Studios, on Power Living Yoga Teacher Training

January 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Duncan Peak

As yoga continues to grow in popularity worldwide, so too do opportunities to study to be a yoga teacher. Even here in New Zealand, there are now a multitude of choices for yoga teacher training. The latest training on offer is Abundance Studio's Power Living Yoga Teacher Training, an intensive two-week programme kicking off this February with Baron Baptiste-trained Duncan Peak of Australia. The Yoga Lunchbox had a chat to Allyson Donnelly, Director of Programming at Abundance Studios in … [Read more...]

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An interview with Jenifer Parker on Healium Yoga Teacher Training

December 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
Jenifer Parker teaching

It seems that opportunities to train as a yoga teacher are sprouting up all over New Zealand. The latest to join us is an offering from newly-arrived American Jenifer Parker. Her and her husband Ryan have set up the body, mind, soul collective Healium, and are offering four different teacher trainings next year. The Yoga Lunchbox had a chat to Jenifer to get the lowdown on these trainings, and find out what makes them different from other yoga teacher training available. 1. What … [Read more...]

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An interview with Barbara Coley on Svastha Yoga Teacher Training

September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Svastha Yoga New Zealand

T. Krishnamacharya is likely the man who's had the biggest influence on the explosion of yoga in modern times. Born in 1888, he was by all accounts a legend. A Yoga Journal article written in 2001 by Fernando Pages Ruiz summed up Krishnamacharya's immense contribution to yoga by saying: You may have never have heard of him, but Tirumalai Krishnamacharya influenced or perhaps even invented your yoga. Whether you practice the dynamic series of Pattabhi Jois, the refined alignments of BKS … [Read more...]

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How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? Part V

May 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Melissa Billington teaching yoga

This is the fifth article in a series which has examined what it takes to become a yoga teacher. This installment is from Melissa Billington, who owns MYOGA in Wellington. Melissa writes: Teaching yoga is a product, or a flowing over, of who you are. Yet Ekhart Tolle writes; If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are—the being behind the human. A field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined. Give up … [Read more...]

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An interview with James Bryan on Knoff Yoga Teacher Training

April 19, 2010 By 2 Comments
Nicky Knoff and James Bryan

Nicky Knoff and James Bryan If you're interested in yoga teacher training, and looking for New Zealand-based training, one of your options is Knoff Yoga Teacher Training. While the Knoff Yoga School is based in Cairns, Australia, they travel to hold their month-long immersion teacher training courses. The next intake of students in the Wellington-based course is this November, 2010. The Yoga Lunchbox spoke to James Bryan of Knoff Yoga to find out more about the training. … [Read more...]

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How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? Part IV

March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hot Yoga Teacher Training with Lou Cassella

This is the fourth article in a series which has examined what it takes to become a yoga teacher. And who wouldn't want to be a yoga teacher? You get to do yoga all day long, swanning around the world attending workshops and teacher trainings is part of your job, and you're blissed out all the time. Plus you've got hordes of adoring students hanging on your every word. What a great career yoga teaching must be! Sign me up now! But it's not quite like that... and as Mike Berghan … [Read more...]

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