Thursday, March 11, 2010

Wellington Yoga Teacher: Melissa Billington of MYOGA

February 22, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant  
Filed under Yoga Teacher Profiles

Wellington Yoga Teacher: Melissa Billington of MYOGA

Born and bred in the United States, Melissa now calls New Zealand her home.
You may have caught her on TV One’s Good Morning Show, distilling her wealth of yoga knowledge and understanding down into a five minute snippet digestible and accessible to the daytime TV audience.
It’s something that takes considerable skill, but Melissa was brought [...]

Part 3: Inside the experience of meditation – Loving-Kindness sadhana to day 29

August 7, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant  
Filed under Meditation, Sadhana

Part 3: Inside the experience of meditation – Loving-Kindness sadhana to day 29

Meditation is a cumulative experience.

That is, the more you do it, the more you get it, the more you want to do it, the more you get out of it… creating this constant feedback loop of encouragement.

Unfortunately, it also works the other way. We begin to meditate, never having done it before, likely with many expectations of what meditation is “supposed” to be like.

Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga Blog

Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga Blog

If you’re working on a home practice, one fantastic, free, online resource is Anmol Mehta’s blog, Devoted to the Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment and Kundalini Yoga.
His depth of knowledge on these subjects and his generousity in offering free online detailed courses with feedback have turned me on to a regular meditation and pranayama practice.
Under his [...]