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Bay of Plenty Yoga Teacher Profile: Radhe

March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bay of Plenty Yoga Teacher Radhe

It's my pleasure to introduce another Satyananda yogi from around the country. Like many of the Satyananda yogis, Radhe has a long history of yoga, first coming into contact with it in the 1970s. She's going to be at the up-coming free yoga day in Hamilton sharing her many years of yoga experience. Radhe is also an admin on The Yoga Lunchbox Facebook page, letting us know what's going on in yoga for the Bay of Plenty area. Congratulations to Shannon Patinkin, winner of the February … [Read more...]

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Hamilton Satyananda Yoga Teacher: Samadhimurti

February 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hamilton Yoga Teacher Samadhimurti

Samadhimurti has practised yoga since her early 20s. Deeply inspired, she lived in the Satyananda Ashram New Zealand for two years in the 1980s, where she also learned to teach yoga. During the following 18 years of parenting, she explored different lifestyles, including living on an island and in a communally owned, solar-powered, permaculture village. Schooling of her daughter lead her to Hamilton in 1999, where she involved herself in a variety of services for the local community … [Read more...]

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Effects of the Sankalpa in Satyananda Yoga Nidra – Manifesting the positive

January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Swami Karma Karuna of Anahata Retreat

By Guest Author Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat Many people on the yogic path are committed to self transformation. This active focus on growth may ignite questioning of one’s own behaviour.  Sometimes, there is genuine desire to change a particular habit or pattern, but try as one may, the cause of the action can be elusive! Whether resisting or accepting those aspects of the self which seem outside of conscious control, in truth the reactions, perspectives and even … [Read more...]

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Broken Warriors – reaching out to prisoners with yoga

January 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
Adhyatma, teaching yoga to prisoners

by guest author Adhyatma, Srinivasa Yoga House, Hamilton I first came across the idea of teaching Yoga to prison inmates when I was staying in an ashram in the northern parts of Bihar, India. I had traveled there without much prior knowledge of why I was really going there, what I was in for, or how it had even happened so easily, and so quickly in my life. But it had! I had been attending some Yoga classes in Mt Eden, Auckland for a couple of years with a Satyananda yoga teacher before … [Read more...]

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It's time to think about which yoga retreats you're going to do this coming year

December 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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New Zealand yogis are blessed to have a stunning yoga retreat located down in the Marlborough Sounds, easily accessible from any part of the country. Every year, Anahata Retreat hosts a variety of retreats, workshops and events. They're already got an extensive list of options out for 2010, so now is the perfect time to read through and decide which event you're going to attend. Swami Muktidharma also leads retreats in India, and there are a couple scheduled for the end of the year - … [Read more...]

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Satyananda Yoga Acharaya: Swami Muktidharma, Anahata Yoga Retreat

September 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
Swami Muktidharma, Anahata Yoga Retreat

  There's a lot of Sanskrit words in that headline, and for those not familiar with the meanings, it might not make any sense at all. But there is a depth of information contained in each and every word. Satyananda is a lineage of yoga, coming from a yogi named Satyananda. Acharaya is an appointed leader of an organisation. A swami is someone who is either a 'master of the self' or is on the path to developing this mastery through a particular discipline and lifestyle.  … [Read more...]

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