Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
Forget the Ten Commandments. Forget even the Five Yamas or Niyamas. Here instead is the Golden Litmus Test. Apply it to all your behaviour. Everything you do. Everything you say. And everything you think. (If you really want to up your game...) Can you publicly own this action, word or thought? Can you publish it in the newspaper? Talk about it on Tv? Answer to it on radio? Yes? Sweet... do it, say it, think it. No? Don't do it, say it, think it... At … [Read more...]
Anusara is a Sanskrit word that means "flowing with Grace". Founded by master teacher John Friend in 1997, Anusara Yoga is a powerful hatha yoga system that unifies a life affirming Tantric philosophy with Universal Principles of Alignment. It is an exceptionally therapeutic, sophisticated, and dynamic practice that cultivates confidence and joy. "This practice is about awakening. Through our practice of yoga, we learn skillful means of participating in and living our lives fully to bring … [Read more...]
Some months ago I published an article called Top Ten best yoga websites and articles on the web. It had an enthusiastic response and has since gone on to be one of the top five articles on the site. At the time, readers suggested/requested a do a top five list of yoga videos on the 'net. I thought it was a great idea, but had no idea where to start. I wasn't in the habit of watching yoga videos online, so couldn't really do a top five list. Until now. Lately, I've discovered a new … [Read more...]
by guest author Katie Lane What the Christchurch earthquake is teaching me about stability. Just when I thought I’d found my roots...the ground shook. AGAIN. Tuesday morning, 11.32am. The biggest aftershock I felt since our original 7.1 magnitude earthquake in early September. It was also the first *big* aftershock for me since arriving back in NZ from an amazing therapy training with John Friend in Maui. Compared to the BIG event, this shake was minor. However, a 5.0 on any scale … [Read more...]
Like many yoga workshops, the recent Anusara Workshop in Christchurch with Noah Maze shook up our concepts of reality, purpose, values and life. Only in this workshop, Heroes and Heroines: Stories and Practices of Yoga, it wasn't the teachings nor the practice or even the teacher doing all the shaking, it was the earth herself. On Saturday morning, at 4.35am... just hours after a stimulating two hour practice to kickstart the weekend underpinned by the mythology of Hanuman the Monkey … [Read more...]
Noah Mazé is celebrated in the yoga community as one of the most advanced and proficient practitioners and teachers of Anusara Yoga, and he's coming to New Zealand in September to deliver a weekend workshop called Heroes and Heroines: Stories and Practices of Yoga. The Yoga Lunchbox caught up with Noah in the middle of his extremely busy schedule to find out how he got into yoga, why he's coming all the way down to New Zealand and just what heroes and heroines have to do with yoga. See the … [Read more...]
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