How yoga can ease the shift to a brand new city
July 10, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Guest Authors, Personal Journeys
by guest author Elissa Jordan I miss Jaqui. I was a happy Canadian girl living in London. I had my push bike and my belly dancing and my charity job. I had friends and I had my yoga. Then I met a Kiwi boy and fell in love. And now I’m in Wellington. A whole [...]
How yoga has helped me… with Sarcoidosis
May 30, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Guest Authors, Personal Journeys
This is the fifth post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by Danelle Wilson of Pennsylvania, USA I have been living with Sarcoidosis for three years. It has caused scarring on my lungs and [...]
How yoga helped me to… become curiouser and curiouser
May 23, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Guest Authors, Personal Journeys
This is the fourth post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by AF of the North Island I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then. – Lewis Carroll, [...]
How yoga helped me… balance my Type-A personality
May 16, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Personal Journeys
This is the third post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by Lisa Morrison of Otago: From my very first class 8 years ago, I was totally and utterly hooked on yoga! There are [...]
How yoga helped me… find steadiness and beauty within my body
May 9, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Personal Journeys, The Benefits
This is the second post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by Zoe of the North Island (not her real name), winner of a Yoga Prize Package The sexual abuse of the body started [...]
How yoga helped me… lose weight and feel good again
May 3, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Personal Journeys
This is the first post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by Tash of Lower Hutt, winner of a Yoga Prize Package At fourteen years old, I felt completely depressed, empty inside and lost [...]
Reflections on hope, inspired by a poetry competition
April 30, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant
Filed under Guest Authors, Personal Journeys
by guest author Alys Titchener I didn’t win. I kind of knew that already when they didn’t phone that day. I waited till the next day, thinking maybe; just maybe they were being disorganized, over worked, or one of those students is filling in and doesn’t really care to follow up. See, there was a [...]



