Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
I’ve found the man of my awakeness by guest author Alys Titchener My flatmate Kara-Leah and I were sitting on our lounge floor one afternoon doing some stretches before dinner. I was deep in thought and before I could censor myself, I blurted out; I feel like I’ve found the man of my awakeness. I wasn’t quite sure what I meant by that, only that this statement arose because what I was experiencing was… not so familiar. What has become familiar about those times I’ve fallen in … [Read more...]
by guest author Jenifer Parker, Healium Yoga Studio, Wellington If you are reading this in an email or on a mobile device and can't see any of the videos, please click here to read the article on the website. Recently, this video from Equinox has been floating around the web. Love it or hate it, it made me laugh. At myself. You see, this is not what I look like in the AM practicing yoga. And, I like practicing in the morning, but i'm all kinds of. . . well, you'll see. I just … [Read more...]
by guest author Nadine Fawell, a Melbourne-based yoga teacher, blogger, and author of the yogAttitude cards. She is most interested in yoga's power to heal body, mind, and spirit. I was very sick a while back. I was too ill to leave the house for three weeks, and, two moths later, I am still coughing. When I went to the Doctor, she told me, “It’s a virus. I can’t do anything for you: go home and sleep it off.” I am, essentially, convalescing. I can’t walk too far or too … [Read more...]
by guest author Lori-Ellen Grant, Wholebody Health If you’re anything like me, you may never have heard of the Mooncup – despite it being the best method of collecting menstrual blood out there. I was 25 years old before I heard of it, and I have to wonder why? Is it because women just don’t talk about what they use during their periods? Or is it because we’re still squeamish about a monthly bodily function? Our squeamishness about our bodies and unwillingness to share … [Read more...]
by guest author Cate Peterson, founder of YogaPass Sixteen years experience as yoga teacher has taught me that yoga is an amazing tool for humans to become more human, and to move ahead along their chosen path. As Patthabi Jois famously stated: Do your practice and all is coming. Yes ...all is coming for us as individuals when we commit to practicing yoga. Beyond the individual benefits, yoga gives us more of ourselves to share around, more health, more energy, more grace, more … [Read more...]
Mike Nixon Photo a brief musing by Mike Nixon That’s right, its not going to make you famous, rich or help find the perfect partner of your dreams. You might even find the opposite for a while... if you really connect with your talents, life’s work and destiny, and take up the challenge. You might be a nobody, poor and without a partner! However, you will find a richness, a fullness, and good people in your life that are far more valuable and sustaining long-term than all the … [Read more...]
