Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
Would you like to? Release grief & anxiety from the heart and live with more freedom? Learn to work the ‘organs of action’, our arms & legs, to stimulate, strengthen and support our inner organs? If so, you're in luck, Louisa Potter is returning after the successful April weekend workshop at Wellington Yoga Centre for another workshop. Louisa is trained in Iyengar yoga, and some background in this style of yoga is needed for attendance. Weekend Workshop, June … [Read more...]
Louisa Potter is an Iyengar teacher with over 20 years of teaching experience. She has been to India to train with BKS Iyengar or his daughter six times. Louisa is coming to Wellington! This is not to be missed if you have even a little Iyengar knowledge. Her workshop will be designed around the needs of the students who come to this workshop Cost: $120 for two days, or Saturday only $60 When: Saturday 10.00-12.30 2.30-5.00 Sunday 9.30-12.00 2.00-4.30 Where: Wellington Yoga … [Read more...]
New York based senior Iyengar teacher Carrie Owerko will lead her first downunder retreat in late February / early March 2012. It will take place in two fantastic locations - the seaside village of St Kilda in Melbourne (24-26 Feb) and the remote and beautiful Awaroa Lodge, in the Abel Tasman (29 Feb – 4 March). Students (who should be at Intermediate level – and who are welcomed from any yoga discipline) can attend either the Melbourne or New Zealand portion, or both parts of the … [Read more...]
American Senior Iyengar teacher Carrie Owerko is hosting a ten-day yoga retreat called Uncovering Roots in Infinite Space here in New Zealand from Friday, February 24, 2012 to Sunday, March 04, 2012. YLB spoke to Carrie to find out more about her journey into yoga, and the retreat. See the end of the interview for booking details, and a special discount for YLB readers. 1. How did you get into Yoga? I first began doing yoga when I was working for a movement theatre company in … [Read more...]
Anandi spent around three years in India during her twenties, which led to her first ever Yoga class. It was an Iyengar class and she was hooked immediately! She did her first teacher training in Pune and went on to help her teacher open a new school just off the beach in Candolim, Goa, something she says was a very magical time. After Goa, Anandi travelled to Thailand and taught Yoga at the Healing Child Oasis resort in Mai Nam, Koh Samui. This was a centre for healing and fasting with … [Read more...]
Born in California, and born to travel - that's Jenifer Parker. And you can blame Lord of the Rings for her and her husband's interest in New Zealand - Ryan was obsessed by the movie series so a trip to New Zealand was deemed imminent. As a result, in 2007, Jenifer answered an advertisement online to come and guest teach at a studio in Nelson. She loved NZ from the beginning, and in particular fell in love with Wellington, but unfortunately that trip was only for a short time. It was just … [Read more...]
