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Archives for December 2011

The Yoga of Business: Goals, Clarity, Values & Commitment, Part 3

December 28, 2011 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by guest author Jenifer Parker, business owner of Healium, Wellington Committing to Your Goal Of course, a lot of people have goals, even specific ones with well-laid plans and a great deal of clarity around their purpose, that still don't succeed. Why is this? A lot of people look at goals as rather personal endeavors that are easy-come, easy-go -- like New Year's resolutions. They don't affect anyone but you, right? So, you don't get the goal, it doesn't really matter. You can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, healium, jenifer parker, marketing

Nadine Fawell shares why Yoga is her chosen faith

December 22, 2011 by Guest Author 33 Comments

by guest author Nadine Fawell, a Melbourne-based yoga teacher, blogger, and author of the yogAttitude cards. She is most interested in yoga's power to heal body, mind, and spirit. I’ve just come back from leading a yoga retreat in Bali. I got on the airplane feeling anxious, for all sorts of reasons: I was about to shoot my first yoga DVD: strong*stretched*serene (which put me so far out of my comfort zone, I couldn’t even see the horizon), I didn’t know whether the hotel would take good care … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: anxiety, divine, ganesh, nadine fawell, sacred

The Yoga of Business: Goals, Clarity, Values & Commitment, Part 2

December 19, 2011 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by guest author Jenifer Parker, business owner of Healium, Wellington Clarity Drives the Process As we have all experienced, sometimes goals do not come to fruition even when they are specific. They can be ridiculously detailed and give a clear way to success, but still fail spectacularly. And sometimes -- as many of us have experienced in the yoga world -- these businesses succeed financially, while undermining the very values that we claim to hold and espouse as yoga … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: aparigraha, business, healium, jenifer parker, santosha

How to answer: what exactly is the energy body?

December 15, 2011 by Elissa Jordan Leave a Comment

by guest author Elissa Jordan It started with a story about a mouse in a toaster. Our second weekend in Nelson, as part of the Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Jenifer Parker of Wellington’s Healium, focused on the energy body. Looking back over my notes from the weekend I see the conversation ebb and flow as only appropriate for a weekend focusing on energy. The movement of stories rode one energetic wave after the next - starting with that mouse in a toaster, and moving to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices, Teacher Training Tagged With: bad energy, energy, energy body, healium, jenifer parker, teaching yoga, warrior I, warrior ii, yoga teacher training

The Yoga of Business: Goals, Clarity, Values & Commitment, Part 1

December 12, 2011 by Guest Author 5 Comments

by guest author Jenifer Parker, business owner of Healium, Wellington In recent weeks, numerous blogs around the web have brought up issues around yoga and business. For many, the common perspective is that yoga and business don't mix, and that going into business with yoga not only denigrates yoga but makes it impossible to be a "true" teacher of yoga. My perspective, however, is that by running any yoga teaching as a business, you better embody the principles of yoga in practice, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, healium, jenifer parker, marketing

Economically, yoga doesn’t make any sense at all

December 1, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant 24 Comments

We've all heard about those wonderful yoga studios delivering fantastic yoga to the community, but struggling to pay their overheads, let alone make any profits. On the flipside of the coin are the corporate yoga studios and centres paying yoga teachers as little as possible in order to maximise profits for the business owners. Somewhere in the middle are the yoga teachers that schlep themselves all over town teaching in community halls, gyms, offices and other studios, with low overheads … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, pay rate, value

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