by Kara-Leah Grant For the last four decades, Ana Forrest has been bringing her particular brand of fierce medicine to the yoga world. She's long woven Native American ceremony into her classes and workshops, calling on the forces that helped her heal from an abusive and challenging … [Read More...]
Latest & Freshest Articles
Is It Good to Go Deeper in a Yoga Pose?
by Lucinda Staniland For all the years I’ve been practicing yoga, I’ve always strived to ‘go deeper’ into the poses. In fact, I thought this was the point of asana. In the name of depth, I’ve pursued an ‘open heart’, and ‘release’ in the hips. Whatever the pose—lunges, backbends, twists—I’ve had … [Read More...]
Top Ten Best Yoga Articles of 2017
by Lucinda Staniland It's always fascinating to see which of the many articles we publish at The Yoga Lunchbox truly strike a chord with the online Yoga community.This year, personal, authentic stories about yoga and meditation in daily life proved to be as popular as ever.When guest author … [Read More...]
Latest Video Interviews
Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco on Bringing Mysticism, Magic & Indigenous Culture to Yoga
by Kara-Leah Grant For the last four decades, Ana Forrest has been bringing her particular brand of fierce medicine to the yoga world. She's long woven Native American ceremony into her classes and workshops, calling on the forces that helped her … [Read More...]
Leslie Kaminoff on Why Asanas Don’t Exist
by Lucinda Staniland Meet Leslie Kaminoff, a Yoga educator with forty years experience in the study of Yoga and the breath. Leslie studied with T.K.V Desikachar, a teacher renowned for his emphasis on the therapeutic aspects of yoga, and he is … [Read More...]
Sarsha & Sandi of Nadi 200 Hour Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training on the Incredible Intelligence of the Body
by Lucinda Staniland Sandi Murphy and Sarsha Hood are two passionate, intelligent and, most of all embodied women.These are characteristics that serve them well as co-leaders of the Nadi 200 Hour Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training, an immersive … [Read More...]
Starting
Be a Tree: Interpretive Yoga for Adults
It’s Autumn: trees are delighting us with a riot of colour, littering the ground with jewels from their branches.We can take a hint from Mother Nature and enjoy a similar process ourselves, letting go of old, stagnant, nonessentials.Releasing … [Read More...]
Donna Farhi on How to Find True Alignment in Your Yoga Practice
By Donna Farhi, Yoga teacher and author When I first began formal Yoga Teaching Training, yoga postures were taught as a series of check-lists, with a point-by-point focus on each and every body part.While this Simon-Says approach of monkey see, … [Read More...]
What does it mean to “breathe into it” in yoga?
by Kara-Leah Grant There's loads of phrases which yoga teachers toss around willy nilly that after time cease to have any real meaning.Phrases like:Surrender into the pose Let your heart open Find your centre Honour yourself Let … [Read More...]
Deepening • The Yoga of Life
Today I found my inner witch, and she denounced yoga
by guest author Emma Furness, former owner of The Dunedin Yoga Studio She has been in hiding – except those inevitable moments when repressed witches burst out in frustration, or the times women get together and end up cackling about blood and childbirth and the dirty body. As I felt into my wild, … [Read More...]
How Al Gore Shocked Me & What He’s Got to do with Yoga
by Lisa Wade I turned up to be transformed.To give my all to Al Gore’s Climate Reality leader’s training program that promised to take me from being a leader to an exceptional leader, all in the name of the environment.I was expecting slogans, fanfares and maybe a few cheerleaders.When … [Read More...]
Teaching • The Business of Yoga
The Hottest Yoga & Consciousness Festivals in NZ & Australia
By Lucinda Staniland & Kara-Leah Grant The explosion of yoga in the last decade has also seen an explosion of yoga festivals. Of course, festivals focused on consciousness have been happening for much longer - Prana Festival here in New Zealand had a 25 year history. While it is sadly no more, … Read more
A Review of Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo 2016
by Kara-Leah Grant Holy Wanderlust. What a trip. It began like it ended last year - with Pete Longworth. We’ve become amazing friends over the last year since meeting at Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo 2015 (one of the best things about this gathering - the quality of friendships you form) and this … Read more
Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World
How to Break a Pattern of Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Men
by Kara-Leah Grant It began with Ana Forrest's class Tracking Transformation at midday on Thursday, the first day of Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo.I was wary of taking her class that afternoon as I was doing a Speakeasy at 4:30pm and Ana has a reputation for breaking people open. However, it was … [Read More...]
But First The Giant Must Dissolve in a Puddle of Tears on the Yoga Mat. Again
by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's post-Bali yoga teacher training with the crew from Power Living and I am totally spaced out. I don't know whether I'm coming or going.One minute I was in conversation with Duncan & the PLAY crew poolside at Potatohead in Seminyak, then I was in … [Read More...]