Food for thought, food for the soul
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 that initial leap, and her home practice demonstrates the power of yoga when we take it off the mat and into our moment by moment lives. … [Read more...]
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 different passions and journeys, through their profiles. As you may have guessed from her photo, Dana's other passion is coffee - you can find her at the market in Nelson … [Read more...]
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 yoga. Manu just exudes that "life is fun, let's have a blast" kinda of feeling that is contagious, uplifting and inspiring. … [Read more...]
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 up with his wife Claire to build and design yoga studios. Lately he's being holding sell-out posture clinics at the Wellington Studio, and has just announced the dates for Wellington's only yoga teacher … [Read more...]
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 touching his toes within two weeks. Chaitanya is just one of the many yoga instructors employed by Hot Yoga in their Wellington and Nelson studios, and over the coming months, The Yoga Lunchbox will be … [Read more...]
No matter how many yoga studios there may already be in a city, there can never be too many. There's always feel a buzz of excitement in the yoga community when a new studio announces it's opening it's doors. Late last year, Wellington was blessed with the opening of Hot Yoga NZ, both a studio and a yoga teacher training facility. … [Read more...]
