Taupo Yoga Teacher: Fiona Links

Australian-born Fiona Links fell in love with a kiwi (that’s him there in the photo with her) and as a result has ended up living and teaching in Taupo. Earlier this year, she and her partner Andrew spent an awesome two months living in Mysore, India, studying at the Astanga Yoga Research Institute with Sharath [...]

Taupo Yoga Teacher: Debi Hall

Debi started practicing yoga in 1996 – after graduating, living in London and doing what she thought she should (and how many of us can relate to that!). Work as a writer and then as a fashion designer proved stimulating and fun – but Debi still felt like she was lacking something.  After eight years of yoga practice,went to India [...]

Wellington Astanga Yoga Teacher: Kiri Sutherland

Astanga is one of the most physically demanding yoga styles, which is why that photo of Kiri displaying such grace and ease in the midst of challenge is so beautiful. She’s demonstrating the mix of hard and soft, strong and flexible that epitomizes yoga. Like many yoga teachers, Kiri first began yoga to help with [...]

Auckland Yoga Teacher: Katy Carter

It’s such a pleasure to introduce our first Auckland yoga teacher, Katy Carter. Not only does she teach yoga, but she also works for a New Zealand yoga clothing company, We’ar Yoga Cothing. I’ve yet to buy anything from the range – mainly due to being pregnant – but have spent time browsing the We’ar [...]

Wellington Yoga Teacher: Megan Collier

Want arms like Megan Collier? Then you need to get start get to one of her Astanga classes. She’s another of Wellington’s passionate yoga teachers, fitting in her teaching around a busy life of work, family and friends. But Megan still finds time to dedicate to her own astanga practice, proving that no matter how [...]

How yoga has the power to transform and release avidya (self-ignorance)

My first experience with the power of avidya came about twenty minutes into my third ashtanga yoga class. Or maybe my second. The exact number is not important, just that I was a broke backpacker partway through a pre-paid ten week yoga course. The teacher, a long, lanky woman in her early forties, brought us [...]

Havelock North Yoga Teacher: Doris Blum

One of the many blessings of creating The Yoga Lunchbox is opening my inbox to find teacher profiles like the following picture and profile from Doris Blum. What a sensational photo! It’s not of an asana, but captures so much of the spirit of yoga – the connection between earth and sky, the connection between [...]

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