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...]
Carmen is both a mother and a studio owner, currently creating an Ayurvedic and Yoga space called Sadhana Yoga & Ayurveda in serene Lake Hawea, just ten minutes from Wanaka. She's offering Ayurvedic consultancy, luxurious therapies and yoga. Carmen says it's 'a comfortable, relaxing, safe space with a strong focus in facilitating a deeper awareness through the knowledge of daily routines, diet, seasons, herbs and other such practices into daily life, that assist with … [Read more...]
Scott Milham has practised yoga for 20 years and been a teacher for 11 of them. Prior to bcomeing a fulltime yoga teacher he was a professional dancer for over a decade working with such companies as the Hong Kong Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Footnote Dance Company. Over the years, Scott has trained with T.K.V. Desikachar, Sean Corne, Saul David Raye and Erich Schiffmann. He has also assisted Erich Schiffmann with his annual teacher training in 2009 at Exhale Sacred Movement yoga studio … [Read more...]
Anandi spent around three years in India during her twenties, which led to her first ever Yoga class. It was an Iyengar class and she was hooked immediately! She did her first teacher training in Pune and went on to help her teacher open a new school just off the beach in Candolim, Goa, something she says was a very magical time. After Goa, Anandi travelled to Thailand and taught Yoga at the Healing Child Oasis resort in Mai Nam, Koh Samui. This was a centre for healing and fasting with … [Read more...]
As a wife and mother of two small children, Amy has made yoga an essential part of her family. After owning and managing a natural health clinic for five years, Amy returned to studying yoga and being a full-time mother in 2010. She passionately believes that yoga is and has been a positive, powerful, transformative factor in her Life, one that effortlessly leads to deep peace, acceptance and love. Amy’s interest in yoga as a personal, therapeutic practice has led her to work in Yoga … [Read more...]
