200-hour Teacher Training & Personal Wellbeing Program The Svastha Yoga 200 hour yoga teacher training program is isn’t just for aspiring teachers but for anyone who wants to deepen their personal practice and gain a better understanding of the system of yoga and its transformational power. We offer a modern approach to ancient wisdom via a comprehensive study of yoga āsanas, prāṇāyāma, meditation, and yoga psychology plus modern science relevant to movement and health. You … [Read more...]
Kai is Core – how we can nourish our future communities, now
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...]
Flow Yoga
Mindfully Yin 50-hour Teacher Training, led by Fiona Liu and Sal Flewelling Our signature 50 hour yin yoga teacher training is specifically designed to help you confidently teach yin classes-in just two weekends . Whilst we spend time diving deep into yin asanas, our real 'mahi' is connecting you back to your heart.We believe that when you're supported by experienced guides, surrounded by a community of like-minded yogis and given time and space to gently explore your own yin practice - … [Read more...]
Asia Pacific Yoga
200-hour Hatha Vinyasa Teacher Training, led by Steve Hall, Joleen Lunjew & Guest Teachers You’ve got a great passion for yoga and you’re ready to take your practice to the next level. Maybe it’s time to take the next step to becoming a certified yoga teacher so that you can fulfill your dream of doing what you love for a living. This Yoga Alliance accredited and internationally recognised 200-Hour Hatha Vinyasa New Zealand Yoga Teacher Training is designed not … [Read more...]
Why Trauma Informed Yoga?
By Nicole Allan, lead trainer at Kawai Purapura Yoga School A ‘Trauma Informed’ approach to yoga has been slowly making its way onto the yoga scene for a number of years now, offering invitation and choice at every opportunity. For those who are not aware of this approach, it may seem nuanced, or something for a limited few who appear to struggle with managing their own lives. Yet, from my point of view, we could all benefit from a more trauma informed approach to living, and I believe Yoga is … [Read more...]
Take your yoga from the studio to the boardroom.
Tips and considerations for teaching workplace yoga by Veronica King. Workplace Yoga is not the same as studio yoga. That's the first and most important thing to remember when looking to teach yoga in the workplace. This is a summary of the Yoga New Zealand Forum which was held recently. 3 speakers were invited to share their wisdom, experience, and tips for teaching yoga in workplaces. With gratitude to Bridgid Davey and Vanessa Bailey who shared with authenticity and vulnerability. The … [Read more...]
Exploring Yoga Language and its impact on student experience
By Karla Brodie, reposted with permission from yogateachertraining.nz A great passion of mine is the evocative use of language to inform Yoga movement and rest practices. A teacher’s use of words has the power to evoke embodied experiences that can be transformational for students. My early years of yoga practice were visually orientated: Yoga practice was about what my alignment looked like and about rearranging muscles and bones to (con)form shapes (asana). Most yoga books described … [Read more...]
Lets talk about cultural appropriation in Yoga
Sometimes an email arrives in your inbox and you have to share it. A well written and important contribution to the conversation around cultural appropriation of Yoga. An invitation to have a difficult conversation. See what arises for you when you read this? What actions can we take to make a difference? How are we complicit? More questions than answers, but that doesn't mean we should not ask them. THE EMAIL: As world celebrates UN Yoga Day on June 21, Hindus upset at trivialization … [Read more...]
Expand your yoga into the dreamscape.
By Sarah Marlowe Spence That time a vacuum cleaner sabotaged my kirtan. Yup, an odd situation. So I delved into that dream to figure out what it was trying to tell me. Dreams happen to most of us when we’re asleep, yet dreams can also be daydreams of where you want to go in life, or waking dreams, i.e. what is happening right now in life. When I was a teenager, I found a dream dictionary in the secondhand bookstore, as we did in life before Google. I wondered what the meanings of my busy … [Read more...]
Is Wordle a Yogic practice?
Minds bright spark. Brief Bliss. Faith. Have you been bitten by the wordle bug yet? I sure have. How does this simple five letter puzzle have anything to do with yoga? As a student of Tantra Yoga I choose to look for the experience of yoga in my daily life. Every moment, every interaction is an opportunity to practice the teachings, to apply them to the world. Wordle is no different in this regard. It's now part of my daily practice and I love it. It's deceptively simple yet … [Read more...]