Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
Two weeks ago, The Yoga Lunchbox published a text interview with Swami Samnyasananda, a consultant neurophysiologist who specialises in research on sleeping. He sounded like such an interesting guy that we then lined up a Skype interview with him too. The Swami is coming to New Zealand in May and June this year, and will be touring around the North Island giving talks and doing private consults with people about how to use breathing and pranayama to help with various health … [Read more...]
by Kara-Leah Grant It's just three weeks until the International Yoga Conference and Festival at Kawai Purapura so I took the opportunity to have a chat to one of the many highly respected yoga teachers who will be at the festival - Swami Shantimurti. Swami Shantimurti is the senior teacher at Auckland's Ashram Yoga. He's been teaching since 1978 and has seen the growth and change of yoga in the West. According to the bio on Ashram Yoga's website, Shantimurti has spent extend periods … [Read more...]
by Kara-Leah Grant Following rave reviews and sell out screenings in New York, London, Munich and Melbourne, NZ film maker Kate Clere returns home for exclusive presentations of Yogawoman in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin from April 12-19. Yup, this awesome film is premiering on the big screen, and there are Q & A sessions afterward with the filmmakers. Excited? I sure as hell am! Plus we've got five double-passes to give away (see below), and a video … [Read more...]
Swami Ji, born in NZ, gives the low down on how a Kiwi boy became a Swami, and how the wisdom he speaks of is relevant to your every day Kiwi bloke and blokini. See tour details here... Swami Ji NZ Tour 2011. … [Read more...]
One of the best things about going to LA for Prana Flow yoga teacher training with Shiva Rea was the inspiring folk I meet along the way. Folk like Steve and Anne-Emillie Gold. They met singing kirtan, and are now expecting their first baby, and their second album. The new album, Stoned on Shiva, is a 'down to the Delta journey through the Mississippi blues and world folk music, merging with the power of Sanskrit mantras of the Ganges'. Having experienced Steve and Anne-Emilie … [Read more...]
