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From city yoga chick to rural home lady

August 14, 2013 by Jacinta Aalsma Leave a Comment

Jacinta Aalsma

By Guest Author Jacinta Aalsma, Yoga Circle The biggest obstacle for me when I moved from Auckland to Whangarei, was leaving behind my yoga studio, yoga community and yoga friends. My yoga studio is my safe place and my yoga friends felt like my family. On the other hand, I knew this move was eventually a good thing for me to do. So here I am in rural New Zealand; my home practice and me. Suddenly I spent heaps of time at home, instead of at yoga studios. My partner prices himself lucky, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: Jacinta Aalsma, yoga excuses, yoga home practice, yoga in rural New Zealand, Yoga in the country, yoga in whangarei

How yoga can ease the shift to a brand new city

July 10, 2010 by Elissa Jordan 3 Comments

Yoga in Wellington

by guest author Elissa Jordan I miss Jaqui. I was a happy Canadian girl living in London. I had my push bike and my belly dancing and my charity job. I had friends and I had my yoga. Then I met a Kiwi boy and fell in love. And now I'm in Wellington. A whole new chapter with thrilling opportunities and possibilities. It's an exciting time. And in every yoga class I go to in Wellington I am met by my mat, my openness to the teachings and a stranger leading the practice. And so I miss … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: attachment

Kai is Core – how we can nourish our future communities, now

August 18, 2023 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Michael Reynolds, of Roimata Food Commons and Toha KaiI have been working at the intersection of community development, food justice & sovereignty, and long term systems thinking for nearly 10 years.I am a big picture thinker, a creator, a doer and a companion within ecologies. I love seeing life thrive…Our food system is broken, which may not come as a surprise to anyone here. While we’re in a cost of living crisis, supermarkets are reportedly making in excess of $1,000,000 profit per … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Living Your Yoga, Uncategorized

Building Resilience with Yoga and Meditation

October 22, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat What is Resilience? No matter who we are, the state of the bank balance, or which country we live in; the twists and turns of life, deaths, jobs, relationship stresses, natural disasters, and trauma can affect us all. Change influences each of us differently, altering our biochemistry, thoughts, and emotions. Resilience is our ability to come back to our centre, to rebound from adversity, and to respond to a challenge in a creative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, resilience, stress management, swami karma karuna, yoga, yoga nidra

A Review of Sex, Drugs and (mostly) Yoga: Field Notes from a Kundalini Awakening

June 6, 2019 by Guest Author 2 Comments

by Susan Pryor, Kara-Leah Grant's third book, Sex, Drugs and (mostly) Yoga: Field Notes from a Kundalini Awakening, is an epic auto-biographical journey spanning fourteen years of Kara-Leah's life. The journey begins in an acute psyche ward in Vancouver where Kara-Leah found herself after her first psychotic episode involving hallucinogenic drugs. Kara-Leah, a practicing yogini, went from being a freedom-loving 29-year-old engaged to-be-married party girl indulging in various … [Read more...]

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Growing a Strong & Resilient New Zealand with Yoga

February 21, 2019 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Ali Hale Tilley, Perhaps the biggest highlight of my year in 2018 was presenting at the Hauora Yoga Conference, held at AUT’s beautiful North Shore campus. Thanks to the energy and efforts of Persephone Singfield, Richard Beddie and the Exercise NZ team, the Haoura event gave yoga presenters like me a chance to contribute to the Aotearoa yoga community. During the pōwhiri, our AUT hosts welcomed presenters. Throughout the hongi, the feeling of electricity and mana flowing through … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights

No Going Back: On Listening and Not-Listening to That Inner Voice

September 22, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Leza Lowitz, Sun and Moon Yoga I never thought I’d open my own yoga studio, let alone do so in a foreign country. Years ago, while I was meditating at a yoga retreat in Haiku, Hawaii, a voice had said, "You must move to Japan and open a yoga studio in Tokyo." Was it my inner voice? The voice of island’s Goddess Pele? It didn’t matter. I didn’t listen. I had no intention of returning to Tokyo, where I’d lived once before. I loved California; there was no going back. Until the day my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga Tagged With: adoption, Fertility, infertility, inner listening, Japan, opening a yoga studio, sacrifice, surrender, travel, trust

How I’m Using the Power of Kirtan to Drive Positive Change

May 5, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by guest author Madi Das, Kirtan Shakti Courtesy of Integral Yoga® Magazine, Summer 2015 Most days, I go to my regular job, wearing my regular clothes, and I type regular things into my regular computer until it’s time to go home. My co-workers know me as Joe, that guy who has enough light banter to be social, but not so much as to get distracted from his typing. Joe is a good guy. Familiar. Dependable. You know the type. But on Tuesday nights, I trade my collared shirt and GAP slacks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Kirtan, Practices, Yoga & Community Tagged With: Bhakti Without Borders, charity, India, kirtan, Kirtan Shakti, Uplifting music, Vrindavan, yoga

How Yoga Helped Me at Every Stage of Life

October 8, 2014 by Guest Author 7 Comments

Sara Foley

In celebration of  the launch of The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga, I’ve invited some friends and colleagues to write articles relating to the theme of the book’s subtitle: Because yoga is for every body.  Sara is an Australia-based writer and I first met her when I asked for volunteers to be Beta-Readers for Forty Days of Yoga. Little did Sara or I know how that was to be the beginning of a strong connection. Sara is a talented writer and courageously faces into the difficulties of modern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: forty days of yoga, Iyengar yoga, motherhood, yoga beginner, yoga in pregnancy

But First The Giant Must Dissolve in a Puddle of Tears on the Yoga Mat. Again

July 7, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

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 a taxi and off to the airport, flying for eight hours overnight, arriving the next day in Auckland, driving 2.5 hours to Tauranga to pick up Samuel, sleeping some more, and driving four hours to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: duncan peak, Emotional breakthrough, Keenan Crisp, Power Living Retreat, tears, transformation

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