How to create a super successful yoga event Part 2

Missed Part 1 of this article? Catch it here. In Part 1 of How to create a successful yoga event, I looked at making sure you’re committed to the event, refining the timing and location of your event and spending some quality time visualising exactly what it is you want to create. Armed with this [...]

How to organise a super successful yoga event Part 1

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 [...]

Equaniminity and the dying mouse

by guest author Alys Titchener, author of blog Squashed Mosquito. Below is a story I wrote about being open. Why? Because I found that when I shared this story at a meditation workshop earlier this year, there was a lot of empathy for the situation. And a real life story can start to build up a [...]

Gaura Yoga Bhakti Centre introduces a vinyasa flow class with musicians and kirtan

If you’ve been reading The Yoga Lunchbox for awhile, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of Kirtan, or call and response chanting. Kirtan is a practice of the Bhakti Yoga path, the path of devotion, and as a heart opening practice it’s awesome for challenges we face in the 21st century. We all need [...]

Confessions of a shiny new yoga teacher

by guest author Seka Ojdrovic-Phillips. Seka reflects on teaching her first yoga class. You can catch one of her Yoga Sangha classes at Yoga Unlimited in Wellington. Plus you can check out Seka’s writing website and blog here. I never planned on this happening but, in the immortal lyrics of John Lennon: Life is what [...]

How a non-certified yoga teacher with no guru ended up teaching (and should she be?)

This is a question I have contemplated many times since teaching was first thrust upon me. And it’s also one this website has explored extensively in recent weeks. After reading all of the responses from other teachers, I began to wonder… how on earth can I call myself a yoga teacher? I have no qualifications. [...]

An interview with Power Yoga teacher Janine Leagh

Wellingtonian yogis are in for a treat next month when Hot Yoga Wellington hosts Sydney-based Power Yoga teacher Janine Leagh. Once an athlete who both competed and coached individuals to the British National Level, Janine now teaches Power Yoga in the USA, UK, Europe, the Bahamas and Virgin Islands. Janine turned to Power Yoga in [...]

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