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Marianne Elliott dishes up the goss on why Wellington’s Prana Flow classes have morphed into Yoga Sangha

July 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
Marianne Elliott, Yoga Sangha teacher

As the recent article on Gaura Yoga Bhakti Centre's new Thursday night Vinyasa & Kirtan yoga class showed, there's more than one way to teach yoga. Also in Wellington, Marianne Elliott is spearheading a series of yoga classes at Yoga Unlimited called Yoga Sangha. These classes are delivered by seva - that is, they have no set price and students decide what they'd like to offer in exchange for attending class. The Yoga Lunchbox caught up with Marianne to find out more about Yoga Sangha, … [Read more...]

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Why good marketing is good for yoga and good for yoga teachers

April 10, 2010 By 13 Comments
Mats waiting for yoga students

I've been having conversations lately with friends who would like to reap the benefits from a regular yoga practice. They see what it's done for me, so have no doubt yoga can do amazing things for the body. There's likely people like this all over the world. People with injuries they know would benefit from yoga. People who are getting older and would like to maintain their suppleness and strength with yoga. People who need the mental release and clarity from regular yoga … [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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The path to true abundance lies within

November 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
All you truly need lies within, delve into your infinite depths

We live in an infinitely abundant universe. This is a fact. Stare up at a clear sky night and try and count the stars. Cut open a capsicum and try and count the seeds. Stand on the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Street and try and count the people flowing in all directions. Life is abundant. It flourishes under even the harshest of conditions. Deserts. Mountain tops. Ocean depths. … [Read more...]

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How much is a yoga class worth to you? Readers respond

November 10, 2009 By 12 Comments
'Pacifica' by Wellington artist Josephine Morey, click image to learn more or buy from her website

There were so many comments and emails that came in form my original post, How much is a yoga class worth to you?, that I wanted to address everything that was raised in a follow-up post. It's been fascinating to hear everybody's point of view, and hear some suggestions about how to handle the payment of classes. Reading through all of these, it become clear to me where I hadn't been clear. … [Read more...]

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How much is a yoga class worth to you?

October 30, 2009 By 21 Comments
The Goddess of Spiritual and Material Wealth, Lakshmi

Six months or so ago, I launched Prana Flow yoga classes with the intention of carrying out a social experiment on value and yoga. I wanted to know: If people were allowed to determine the value of a 75 minute yoga class all by themselves, what value would they arrive at? Here's the original article: Prana Flow Yoga launches classes where students decide how much to pay. Now my experiment had some limitations. Because it was also designed to remove financial barriers to yoga, so that … [Read more...]

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