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Hamish Kenworthy on Why He Doesn’t Regret a Single Moment of Opening Up

October 23, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland

Hamish Kenworthy Apollo Power Yoga

by Lucinda Staniland, The first time Hamish Kenworthy came onto my radar was in 2016 when The Yoga Lunchbox conducted a search for The Best Up and Coming Yoga Teachers in Australia and New Zealand. We were flooded with hundreds of recommendations from yoga students, but some of the most touching, enthusiastic and sincere testimonials were for one Hamish Kenworthy of Apollo Power Yoga in Christchurch. Hamish's students all described his extraordinary energy, his jokes and sense of humour, his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Teaching Insights

Denise Payne on Why She Doesn’t Want Liberation in This Lifetime

August 7, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland

Denise Payne

by Lucinda Staniland, Denise Payne is a big-hearted yoga teacher with more than three decades of experience on the mat. Most recently, she spent the last eight years in Bali, where she taught at Ubud's favourite yoga studio, The Yoga Barn and also at Bali's most notorious prison, Kerobokan, where she started a yoga program with Myuran Sukumaran, one of the Bali Nine. In today's yoga landscape, Denise has what I consider to be an unusually deep grounding in Yoga, including twenty years spent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Video Interviews Tagged With: bali, Denise Payne, Yoga in Prison, yoga teacher training

Jennifer Allen on The Dissipation of Expectation in Yoga

June 28, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland

Jennifer Allen of Jayayoga

  by Lucinda Staniland I've never met Jennifer Allen in person, but on watching her video conversation with Kara-Leah Grant, it didn't take me long at all to learn everything I needed to know about her. Google can tell you that Jennifer is the founder and lead facilitator of Jayayoga, a popular yoga studio in Auckland. But perhaps more importantly, and you'll quickly pick up on this when you watch her interview, she has an incredible loving-mama-bear kind of energy, and she's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Video Interviews Tagged With: Jayayoga, jennifer allen, sustainable yoga, yoga injuries

Sandey Hoskin & Kylie Rook on Handstands, Creative Sequencing & Showing Up

June 14, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

Om Yoga Teacher Training

by Lucinda Staniland Meet Sandey Hoskin and Kylie Rook, two yoga teachers who are committed to doing the hard work of showing up, being seen and constantly learning. They are also part of the team (alongside Fiona Liu) who are leading a brand new 300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Om Yoga Studio in Auckland. Sandey has been a teacher of teachers for a long time, and she's been teaching yoga teachers at Om Yoga Studio for the last four years. She's also been busy bringing some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Teacher Training, Video Interviews Tagged With: OM Yoga, Teacher training, yoga teacher

Vincent Bolletta on Asana, Movement & Yoga Therapy

June 1, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Vincent Bolletta Yoga Therapy Training

by Lucinda Staniland, Meet Vincent Bolletta, one of New Zealand’s foremost yoga instructors and teacher trainers and the founder of hañsa Yoga, a unique style of yoga that integrates both eastern and western thought and methodologies. Vincent's been in the yoga game a long time—he's been practising yoga since 1989 and teaching since 1991—but alongside his considerable knowledge and experience in the field, he still cultivates a beautiful sense of excitement, joy and curiosity towards the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Video Interviews Tagged With: Vincent Bolletta, yoga teacher training, yoga therapy

Justine Hamill on The Process of Unconditioning in Yoga Teacher Training

March 29, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Justine Hamill Power Living Yoga Teacher Training

by Lucinda Staniland Meet the delightful Justine Hamill, co-owner of Wellington's Power Living yoga studio and a Senior Facilitator of the Power Living New Zealand team. With eighteen years of Yoga practice under her belt, as well as training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, watching Justine in action makes it obvious that she brings a very deep level of experience and nurturing care to Power Living's Yoga Teacher Trainings, which she's been involved with for the last four years. Yoga Teacher … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, The Process of Waking Up, Video Interviews Tagged With: bali, Justine Hamill, Power Living, yoga teacher training

Philip Shepherd on What It’s Really Like To Experience Radical Wholeness

March 23, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

by Lucinda Staniland What is radical wholeness? This is a question that Philip Shepherd has spent many decades exploring and experiencing. As an international embodiment expert and the author of "New Self, New World," "Radical Wholeness," and creator of The Embodied Present Process™, Philip has studied wholeness through scientific, historical and anthropological lenses and through the felt intelligence of his own body. Kara-Leah Grant caught up with Philip to explore his nuanced and, to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, The Process of Waking Up, Video Interviews Tagged With: embodiment, Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness, Wholeness

8 Reasons Why Yoga Nidra is the Hottest New Yoga Trend

February 5, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Anahata Yoga Nidra Training

By Lucinda Staniland By now you've probably come across Yoga Nidra, one of the hottest trends to hit the Yoga scene in recent years. Everyone is doing it, from your trend-setting Instagram-loving best friend to your old-school internet-free great Aunt. But what is Yoga Nidra exactly, and does it deserve its sudden popularity? To the latter, I answer with an emphatic YES, which I trust will quickly become clear in the eight points below. And for an answer to the former, I turned to Swami … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, The Foundations, Yoga Styles Tagged With: anahata yoga retreat, restorative yoga, swami karma karuna, yoga nidra, Yoga trend

Dr Scott Lyons on The Art of Being Human & Embodied Flow™ Yoga

January 29, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Dr Scott Lyons Embodied Flow Yoga

by Lucinda Staniland, It's always a joy to come across someone who takes real pleasure in the work they do in the world. Without a doubt, Dr Scott Lyons is such a person and I could tell so immediately when I began watching his conversation with Kara-Leah Grant. Although he clearly takes a serious and earnest approach to his work, there is also an overflowing sense of delight and lightness to him, which I couldn't help but be enchanted by. Dr Scott Lyons is a Clinical Psychologist and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Video Interviews, Yoga Styles Tagged With: Dr Scott Lyons, Embodied Flow, psychology, Tara Judelle, Yin Yoga

Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco on Bringing Mysticism, Magic & Indigenous Culture to Yoga

January 17, 2018 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco of Forrest 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 heal from an abusive and challenging childhood. So it's no surprise that when she met and fall in love with the man who would go on to become a co-director of Forrest Yoga that he too would have a long history with shamanism and healing - just in a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Video Interviews Tagged With: Ana Forrest, ceremony, Forrest Yoga, Jose Calarco, OM Yoga

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