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Yoga Explorations # 3: Music can move us into our practice

August 4, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Music can move us into our yoga practice

by Kara-Leah Grant Joy's been on my mind this week. Mostly because I was noticing a lack. Understandable - my life has been intense, on many levels, over the last few weeks. Seems just when I think I've got one area or aspect mastered, the stakes are upped again. That's cool. I can deal. But if I don't watch it, I can also get way too serious. Fortunately, I also have a magic tonic. Anytime I start getting too somber, too depressing, too serious, too stressed out, too hung up on life's ups … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video, Reviews, The Foundations Tagged With: home practice, joy, music, online classes, Prana Flow, shiva rea, twee merrigan, video

Mind the Gap and It Will Set You Free. Promise

August 1, 2012 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Mind the gap

by Gabrielle Harris When I was about nine, Dad bought a strange woman to our house. She was dressed in white and had an exotic name. Our sleep-out was turned into a shrine. Suddenly suburban life was looking up. The lady was handed some cash and I had to give her something of value to myself. I gave her my teddy. I didn’t want to give her my teddy as I was attached to it. It’s good to have attachments when you are nine; it gives you something to work on in later years. Little did I know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: beginning meditation, how-to, instructions, learning to meditate, meditation, patanjali, samskaras, Transcendental Meditation, yoga

Yoga Explorations #2: Child, a posture of internal wisdom

July 28, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant There's nothing flashy about child's pose.  It's unlikely to ever grace the cover of Yoga Journal magazine. No one ever gets all excited about how awesome their child posture is either. But child's pose is the rock of a home practice. Its the place we turn to when there is no other place to go, it's the place we go when we want to come home to ourselves, and it's the place when we find our internal source of power. This week, I've been experiencing grief and sorrow. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video, Reviews, The Foundations Tagged With: child, grief, home practice, online classes, sorrow, video

Yoga Explorations #1: Unlock your home practice

July 21, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Yoga Video Exploration Series for Home Practice

by Kara-Leah Grant Last week, I published an article called Free your pelvis and the rest will follow. I'd written this at the request of a long-time loyal reader who was having lower back issues. In the article, I included a short video of me talking about using yoga to heal, and written explanations for seven ways to explore the pelvis and spine. The article was a big hit, and it's now inspired this new series designed to support you in your home practice. For many of, the idea of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video, Reviews, The Foundations Tagged With: exploration, home practice, neck pain, on-line class, shoulder pain, video

Free your pelvis and the rest will follow

July 9, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 12 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Years of yoga practice and yoga teaching has taught me that our ability to freely move our pelvis is a key aspect to unlocking our spines, and releasing any chronic low back issues or holding patterns. I've also learned that it's not always the muscles, ligaments and tendons that are locking our pelvis in place. It can be our minds. Yes, the psyche can affect the way that our pelvis moves. Fortunately, over time, yoga practice can unlock both the physical body and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Physical Practices, Practices, Reviews Tagged With: back, degenerative disc disease, healing, practice, spinal fusion, spine

What’s the point of winter – whether of the soul or of the seasons?

June 21, 2012 by Melissa Billington 5 Comments

A season for all things...

by guest author Melissa Billington, Creatrix of the Powa Centre & MYOGA Driving into Wellington there’s a big billboard by the docks that reads, “Cancel Winter.”  It’s advertising warmer climes, in this case, Nelson. I know we can travel and many with means become snowbirds following the warmth of the sun around the globe.  Yet I wonder if we’re missing something crucial by avoiding the dark and the cold and the seemingly difficult. I’ve lived in equatorial countries and the monotony … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: depression, light, Melissa Billington, seasons, solstice, soul, winter

How to Meditate in Four Easy Steps

May 8, 2012 by Peter Fernando Leave a Comment

by Peter Fernando, Meditation and Mindfulness I like to consider what 'meditation' is, from the perspective of a beginner, or someone who's never heard of it. Sometimes the more I think I know about something, the further away I get from really knowing the heart of it! So, having reflected on it, from an experiential place, I reckon this thing called 'meditation' actually just consists of four qualities, or skills in the mind: 1) Focus Take an object, such as the feeling of the breath in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: awareness, easy, feeling, focus, four, kindness, meditation, simple, steps

How to make your office practice your yoga practice

April 30, 2012 by Guest Author 3 Comments

by Gabrielle Harris Are you too busy at work to become liberated? Would aliens snatch you up out of your office desk for analysis because of that mindless look on your face? Do you want to incorporate more yoga into your daily work life? Here are a few simple tips to turn your office day into a yoga day. One of the definitions of yoga is to become disconnected from the connection to suffering. Going to work can potentially be a breeding ground for suffering. This is where we play out our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Reviews Tagged With: bhakti, hatha yoga, jnana, karma yoga, mantra yoga, office yoga, yoga at work

Dumped by my Guru

April 6, 2012 by Guest Author 10 Comments

Divorced by my guru

by columnist Gabrielle Harris, The Suburban Yogini My freefall descent happened 6 months ago. It wasn’t gentle zen-like parachute descent, but the type of ungraceful fall where not only was I kicking and screaming, but all the office workers in the building I was sailing by were laughing and poking faces at me. My lesson on non-attachment had publicly arrived. It happened on my level 3 teacher training. I had travelled to Australia to be with the teacher I was attached to. He made me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class, Teaching Insights Tagged With: abhinvesa, amsita, anahata chakra, dvesa, finding a teacher, guru, klesha, leaving your teacher, Mark Nepo, non attachment, raga, tapas, Teacher training, The Book of Awakenings

Forrest for the trees – no bullshit, just yoga

March 13, 2012 by Seka Ojdrovic-Phillips 2 Comments

by guest author Seka Ojdrovic-Phillips The planted seed of a fruitful vine is a memorable moment. For me, it was hungrily reading through old issues of Yoga Journal on the second floor of the Wellington library. After starting to feel yoga as a lifestyle decision, not just an exercise regime, I wanted to learn everything I could. My body still bore the inflexibility and weakness of someone brand new to the practice, but my soul had expanded immediately. In the haze of too much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class Tagged With: Ana Forrest, commitment, fury, Seka Ojdrovic, strength, Teacher training, yoga

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