An interview with Claire Szabo-Cassella on the Hot Yoga Teacher Training programme

In keeping with our recent exploration of what it takes to be a yoga teacher, the Yoga Lunchbox spoke to Claire at Hot Yoga to find out more about their six month teacher training programme.
It’s one of the few teacher training programmes available in New Zealand, and starts every year in July.
Why does Hot Yoga [...]

Wellington Hot Yoga Teacher: Andrea Tutt

The profiles I publish from Hot Yoga’s two studios (Nelson & Wellington), the more I realise how blessed we are in New Zealand with a diverse range of yoga teachers.
Teachers have come from all different walks of life, and most emphasize that yoga is about far more than asana.
Andrea credits pregnancy with helping her make [...]

Nelson Hot Yoga Teacher: Dana Morgan

Our profiles of Hot Yoga teachers continues with Dana from Nelson. It’s so wonderful that these two Hot Yoga studios, Nelson and Wellington, have got behind Prana Flow Yoga and taken the time to fill in the yoga teacher profiles. (Thank you Claire!)
There is such delight in getting to know all these teachers, their [...]

Wellington Hot Yoga Teacher: Manu Moana

The Wellington yoga community is so blessed with a rich variety of yoga teachers – and Manu is another one of those teachers.
He brings a youthful vigour into any room, and thinks nothing of breaking out into a few dances moves post-kirtan.
It’s that kind of joyful expression of life that’s the best possible advertising for [...]

Wellington Hot Yoga Teacher: Lou Cassella

How can you look at that photo of Lou and not want what he’s got? He doesn’t look like any 67 year old I’ve meet before, and there is such unselfconscious joy in his expression.
Proof that it doesn’t matter when you come to yoga, Lou is half of the dream team behind Hot Yoga, pairing [...]

Nelson Yoga Teacher: Chaitanya Deva, Hot Yoga

There is something so exuberant about Chaitanya’s profile photo that it makes me want to take a special trip down to Nelson’s Hot Yoga studio just to take one of his yoga classes.
That and to quizz him on the special technique he learned in order to be able to go from touching his shins to [...]

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