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Yoga doesn't just exist in yoga studios. It can also be out there in the community, reaching and serving a wide range of people. Join the conversation about making yoga accessible to all.

Why I’m Bringing Yoga & Meditation to Teenagers with The Soul Laundry

September 24, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Nina Rogocki, The Soul Laundry About three years ago I was new to Auckland from the UK, and embarking on a new journey that was unexpected but welcome. To settle into my new environment, I found myself a gym, as you do, and I started to attend classes and set my routine. One afternoon in a daze, I got in the lift and ended up on the wrong floor. The doors of the lift opened up to reveal a welcoming, warm environment that was quiet and felt like total calm. Upon investigation I realised … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: care, confidence, education, health, kindness, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, self-love, teens, The Heart, yoga

Donna Farhi on Why Your Yoga Teacher is Not Your Friend

May 26, 2015 by Guest Author 20 Comments

Editor's Note: Since this article was published, several accounts of sexual harassment and assault have been made public by Mark Whitwell's female students. We do not in any way condone Mark's behaviour. You can read more about the accounts here. Donna Farhi, author and yoga teacher, as interviewed by Kara-Leah Grant Donna Farhi is a world renowned yoga teacher who has been practicing yoga for thirty nine years, and teaching it since 1982. She lives here in New Zealand but teaches intensives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Teaching Insights, Yoga & Community Tagged With: donna farhi, Teacher Student Relationship, teaching ethics, yoga teacher, yoga teacher ethics, yoga texts

How to Prevent the Practicalities Getting in the Way of Your Dreams

May 14, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

Get clear on your dreams and then take action. You will be supported.

by Kara-Leah Grant Over the past decade I've become skilled at working with the unconscious and that which holds us back from realising our dreams. I'm adept at identifying something I would like to experience, and then making it happen. I wanted to write and publish a book. I've now written and published two. I had a dream of teaching Yoga Trance Dance with a live DJ rocking it behind me, and I'm now part of Yoga Rhythms with fellow yoga teacher, DJ and Goddess Rire. I dreamt of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, Yoga & Community Tagged With: dream realization, dreams, forty day process, habit-hacking, habit-hacking workshop, Mount Maunganui Workshop, success, workshop

Have You Given Up Reaching for Your Dreams?

May 8, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Never before in human history have we known so much. We have unlimited information at our fingertips, and that information is constantly being updated. We know how to maintain optimum health including how to eat, how to exercise and how to practice yoga. We can learn any new skill for free - a new language, a musical instrument, we can even get a degree for free. No matter what dream we want to pursue, the information required to do so is available to us. Yet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: change, forty day process, habits, success, workshop

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

Teenage Kicks! The Impact Of Yoga On Teenagers

January 23, 2015 by Guest Author 2 Comments

YogaTeens getting their kicks!

By guest author Charlotta Martinus, TeenYoga I was 37 when I started yoga and to be frank, I thought it was all pretty weird! And so did most people. A lot has changed since then. There has been a 25% year on year increase in the UK in people involved in yoga, one way or another in the last ten years. So, clearly, perceptions have changed! When I started thinking about offering yoga in schools, it was fun and easily accepted at primary school, as little kids are so open to new experiences … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, Yoga & Community Tagged With: meditation, mindfulness, neurobiology, schools, Teenagers, trauma and yoga, yoga for young people, yoga in schools, young people, youth yoga

Katy Carter on Why The Space Between is so Powerful {Video Interview}

October 10, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Mana Retreat Centre

by Kara-Leah Grant It's that time period between Christmas and New Year's where the madness of the silly season is almost over but the shops and roads are packed. It's that time when our family obligations are usually done, but we haven't quite started our holidays yet. It's that time when the old year is done, yet the new year has yet to start. It's the space between. And a space when Auckland-based yoga teacher Katy Carter has decided to host a five day retreat at Mana Retreat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Video Interviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: December Retreat, Katy Carter, Mana Retreat Centre, New Year's Retreat

Why Yoga Studios Are Not Enough: The Community Yoga Project

September 15, 2014 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Maya teaching at her Community Yoga Project

My book The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga got me thinking about all the ways in which people are excluded from yoga - reasons like social class, race, money, incarceration or general access. Much as we like to think yoga is accessible for all and inclusive, the reality is that there are many barriers which prevent large numbers of our populations from benefiting from it's practice. I wanted to highlight the work that is being done to bring yoga to all the people and hopefully inspire other yoga … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, Yoga & Community Tagged With: access, accessible, community, diverse, marginalized, privilege, social justice, yoga

Because Yoga is for Every Body – Right? Not just the Young, Slim, Bendy and Gorgeous

August 22, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant I'm casting my mind back to Auckland, New Zealand in 1995 and it seems a long, long time ago. I had just dropped out of my second year at Uni - ostensibly because back issues and serious sciatic pain made it impossible for me to sit for lectures, but there were other, deeper reasons too. (i.e. my habitual response when facing serious challenge - run!) Regardless, I was in chronic back pain. A good friend suggested we go and do a ten week beginners Iyengar yoga course that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: beginners, inflexible, new to yoga, yoga book

Matthew Remski: What Are We Really Doing in Asana? {Video Interview}

August 13, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Matthew Remski is a yoga teacher, writer, Ayurveda practitioner therapist and author of Threads of Yoga - A Remix of Patanjali's Sutras. For years he's been concerned about injuries in yoga, but had not been concerned enough. Like many of us, he believed that yoga injuries were the result of poor instruction on the part of the teacher, or overwork on the part of the student. But over time, Matthew began to notice that even well-instructed poses, executed mindfully, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Video Interviews, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga & Community Tagged With: injury, Matthew Remski, video interview, yoga pain

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