Fresh and juicy conversations on making yoga a part of your daily life
Yoga Trance Dance™ at The Dunedin Yoga Studio with Kara-Leah “High energy movement meditation to liberate your creative dance force. Yoga Trance Dance is a meeting of two great rivers, yoga and dance, which come from and are untied at the source. The infinite creative source is the One, uniting us all. Yoga and dance are two of the oldest paths back home.”Shiva Rea, teacher of Yoga Trance Dance™ & Prana Flow Yoga. Yup - it’s ok to dance and practice yoga all at the same … [Read more...]
Yoga Trance Dance™ at Wellington's Hot Yoga with Kara-Leah “High energy movement meditation to liberate your creative dance force. Yoga Trance Dance is a meeting of two great rivers, yoga and dance, which come from and are untied at the source. The infinite creative source is the One, uniting us all. Yoga and dance are two of the oldest paths back home.”Shiva Rea, teacher of Yoga Trance Dance™ & Prana Flow Yoga. Yup - it’s ok to dance and practice yoga all at the same time! … [Read more...]
I've been totally short-changed on my yoga journey. Never once have I had a Real Yoga Teacher. You know - the kind you have an on-going relationship with.. the kind who supports your yoga journey parsing out morsels of wisdom and insight at the exact moment you need them... the kind who's interested in your development and answers all your questions. Nope, thanks to some cruel twist of fate, I've been left to blunder through the mine field of yoga all by my lonesome. Partly this … [Read more...]
There's a lot of debate going on in American yoga circles right now about what is yoga and what is not yoga. Elephant Journal is full of it, even the New York Times has got in on the act. I'm no yoga scholar, and I know there's various yogic texts which one can refer back to that expound on exactly what yoga is and isn't. Patanjali is oft-quoted, although he's not the only guy that wrote about yoga back in the day. His take on it is simply that yoga is: the cessation of the … [Read more...]
Some months ago I published an article called Top Ten best yoga websites and articles on the web. It had an enthusiastic response and has since gone on to be one of the top five articles on the site. At the time, readers suggested/requested a do a top ten list of yoga videos on the 'net. I thought it was a great idea, but had no idea where to start. I wasn't in the habit of watching yoga videos online, so couldn't really do a top ten list. Until now. Lately, I've discovered a new world … [Read more...]
Ever since I first took a Prana Flow teacher training module with Twee Merrigan in Wellington, I'd been dreaming of going to study with Shiva Rea, Master Prana Flow teacher, in the USA. Something was always in the way though... I was working as a speechwriter paying the mortgage on the house my partner was renovating. I was pregnant. Then I had a new born baby boy, Samuel. All the while, I'd keep an eye on what Shiva was up to, where she was teaching, what courses were on offer. Nothing … [Read more...]
