Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
Willa is the founder and director of the SOUL CENTRE. An established choreographer, director, filmmaker and dancer who has performed all over the world Willa has been working in dance holistic health and wellbeing for over 15 years, and teaching yoga for over ten. She is also one of NZ’s top somatic practitioners and has a current practice at SOUL combining, biodynamic cranio-sacral therapy, massage, movement therapy, dance, yoga and meditation. As one of New Zealand's two SRT … [Read more...]
Hot Yoga is coming to Auckland in late September, and this is our first profile of an Auckland Hot Yoga teacher, and the studio owner, Fiona Liu. Once a risk analyst in China, before moving to New Zealand, Fiona randomly walked into a yoga studio after work one day in 2008. And that was it - her yoga journey had begun. A year later she completed the Teacher Training program with Hot Yoga of New Zealand and has been teaching ever since. Passionate about helping people awaken their … [Read more...]
Yogita's passion for yoga leaps off the page in this teacher profile. She is the only yoga teacher in the country teaching Vyayam Yoga, which is a moving style of yoga that formed the foundation for many martial arts. Her yoga teacher training was thorough, as she spent five years of studying at the Traditional Vyayam School in the Moorish city of Granada, Spain with Shrî Swami Shankaratilakânanda. There she learned about all aspects of yoga, and was particularly impressed by the way in … [Read more...]
Once a financial controller, now owner of a yoga studio, Barbara Coley makes time in her life to visit India as often as she can to continue her studies with A.G. and Indra Mohan, both of whom were long-time personal students of Krishnamacharya. While she never dreamed that she would ever open a yoga studio, earlier this year she even hosted the Mohans here in New Zealand for a Yoga Sutras seminar. Barbara's hoping to bring them out again in 2011. Her personal interest is yoga psychology, … [Read more...]
Like many natural-born Kiwis, Maree's lived all over the world including Sydney and London. She now calls Auckland home, and has stayed put for the last six years. Once upon a time she was a fashion designer, but eventually decided to swap the hectic pace for something more rewarding both to herself and others. Yoga was a therapeutic force in her life, so she's made this her focus in teaching others. She wants to see yoga make a positive difference in people's lives and and is also … [Read more...]
Sue's yoga path started in the late '70s in South Africa when she was initiated onto a path of meditational yoga - a path she still follows today. Hatha yoga followed soon afterwards and happily saw her through three pregnancies. When she moved to New Zealand, her three girls were very little, but once the youngest started school she was faced with the option of looking for a full-time job or continuing her yoga teacher training that she'd started in Cape Town. No contest there! Sue … [Read more...]
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