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The benefits of practicing yoga while watching TV

March 11, 2013 by 1 Comment
There's benefits to practicing yoga in front of the TV

By Kara-Leah Grant, author of Forty Days of Yoga During class on Wednesday, as we moved from posture to posture, I drew my students attention to the way they were beginning to intuitively move their bodies in counterposes and releases after a more intense posture. They weren't thinking about it, it was just happening as their body moved spontaneously and they followed along. One of my students looked up and exclaimed: That's what's happening when I watch TV now! A-ha! One benefit of … [Read more...]

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How avoiding feelings avoids the present moment and avoids life

February 15, 2013 by 3 Comments
KL & Samuel on an adventure

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat This morning, the wonderful woman who looks after Samuel four days a week while I work told me she's finishing up with PORSE (home-based early childhood education) on April 6. This is a big deal. I live in a small town with no kindergaten or other early childhood education facility. There is no other childcare available (right now). I'm also a single parent working from home and those childcare hours are my livelihood - not just for my business … [Read more...]

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Do too many perfect yoga images do yoga a dis-service?

February 3, 2013 by 5 Comments
"I really regret going to yoga today" - Said no one. Ever

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Check out that image to your right. It's beautiful. A beautiful woman in a beautiful setting doing a beautiful posture. I love to look at images like that. But it's not the kind of image I've chosen for the cover of my book Forty Days of Yoga. I've chosen an image of me sitting on a chair - not even a beautiful chair - just a nondescript chair on a white background. I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I'm not doing a recognisable yoga … [Read more...]

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Book launch winners announced and book… not launched!

February 1, 2013 by 11 Comments
Ready to commit to your home yoga practice?

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Editor's Note: Forty Days of Yoga has now launched. You can buy it here. Oh yes... last night at 8pm I was already to go. The landing page was ready, the email out to the book launch folk was ready, I had an article scheduled for The Yoga Lunchbox and all the files had been proofed, formated, exported and zipped. Time to launch! I did the competition draw and sent out a free link to the book to the three winners, Anita Anderson, Jacqui Gee … [Read more...]

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Forty Days of Yoga: A journey to create a home yoga practice

January 9, 2013 by 8 Comments
Sara in her yoga room

by guest author Sara Foley, Smells Good, Feels Good I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: ...stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi I am one of Kara-Leah’s ‘beta readers’ for her upcoming book Forty Days of Yoga – Breaking Down the Barriers to a Yoga … [Read more...]

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The world doesn’t need another yoga practice progamme

December 13, 2012 by 6 Comments
You don't need a set practice. You need to master your mind.

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Last week, after publishing the article outlining Forty Days of Yoga, I received an email from a reader excited about the  book. She was particularly excited about having a set programme of yoga she and her students could do. Pause. A moment of clarity. Forty Days of Yoga is not a set practice programme. There is no instruction on asana at all, and for very good reason. The world does not need more information on what postures to do, how and … [Read more...]

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