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A selection of useful resources to kick-start (or supplement) your yoga practice. You will find videos, articles, how-to guides, and more. Enjoy!

The Best Guide to NZ Retreat Centres

November 9, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland

Anahata Yoga Retreat

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Filed Under: Best Guides, Reviews Tagged With: Anahata, Kawaipurapura, retreat, Tauhara, yoga retreat

One Woman’s Experience of Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo 2017

February 13, 2017 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Persephone Singfield Courage My Love

by Persephone Singfield, Courage My Love Courage My Love has a summer sale beginning Feb 15th where all of our stock will be reduced in price. This is a great time to get a bargain and support a New Zealand brand! I've been hooked on Wanderlust since the beginning... Wanderlust Festival began in North America in 2009 and moved to New Zealand and Australia in 2013 via the dynamic duo, Jacque and Jonnie Halstead. The first Wanderlust Festival I attended was 5 years ago in Stratton, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: commercialisation, Courage My Love, Persephone Singfield, wanderlust, Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo, yoga festival

A Review of Anatomy & Yoga: A Guide for Teachers and Students

January 25, 2017 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Nikki Ralston, The Ralston Method At school I had no interest in the sciences whatsoever, let alone in anatomy. At that age, it was boring and irrelevant! However my attitude to anatomy changed in my second to last year at high school when I was on the verge of failing my exams. A great teacher stepped in and finally made science interesting, and what a transformation occurred from that moment. This forever highlighted for me that the art of teaching is to make the content relevant and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Teaching Insights Tagged With: Anatomy and Yoga: A Guide for Teachers and Students, Ellen Saltonstall, Nikki Ralston, The Ralston Method, Yoga anatomy

The Hottest Yoga & Consciousness Festivals in NZ & Australia

October 21, 2016 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

By Lucinda Staniland & Kara-Leah Grant The explosion of yoga in the last decade has also seen an explosion of yoga festivals. Of course, festivals focused on consciousness have been happening for much longer - Prana Festival here in New Zealand had a 25 year history. While it is sadly no more, there are many other festivals that you can attend where you have a high chance of engaging with more conscious folk. This is a list of some of the festivals coming up over the summer festival … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: Australia, Celebration, community, Conciousness, dance, festival, music, new zealand, yoga festival

How I Reconnected with My Inner Goddess at The Great Emptying Out Retreat

October 5, 2016 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Victoria Bruce I first stumbled across the 2016 Great Emptying Out Yoga Retreat on Facebook and after reading the theme of the retreat – Self-Love – I knew I needed to attend. Why? Because I had a shitload of stuff to empty out and filling that void with some self-love sounded like a brilliant idea. At thirty one years of age, as a journalist and solo mummy to an amazing little soul called Emilie, I often feel like I should have my shit together by now. Yet despite being equipped with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Reviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: goddess, Great Emptying Out, Inner Goddess, retreat, sacred feminine, self-love, women, yoga retreat

An Interview with Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains on the New Anatomy of Interconnectedness

March 31, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Back in 2001, movement specialist Tom Myers published a book called Anatomy Trains. In it, he put forward an idea that was to forever change the way that people understood "stretching" - a systems-oriented view of our musculo-skeletal anatomy. That is, that when we stretch, we're not just stretching separate and individual muscles, but that we're also working with fascia, which is a webbing overlaid and connecting all muscles. This book was born out of the work that Tom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: anatomy trains, fascia, online couse, Tom Myers, webinar

The First Step to Consciously Heal Anything

February 26, 2016 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Ben Ralston The first step in truly healing anything - which means uprooting the cause of the problem - is to take responsibility for the problem. Many of us begin this journey by getting on the yoga mat. However, sometimes, that’s not enough. At the root of all our problems - everything that needs healing today - is trauma. At some point in our lives (or in the lives of our ancestors) a trauma was experienced that wasn’t completed. As a result, we now experience problems - like anxiety … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: ben ralston, healing, responsibility, retreat, trauma

A Review of Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo 2016

February 11, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Holy Wanderlust. What a trip. It began like it ended last year - with Pete Longworth. We’ve become amazing friends over the last year since meeting at Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo 2015 (one of the best things about this gathering - the quality of friendships you form) and this year, Pete flew out early to hang with me. We drove over on Wednesday, stopping at Kerosene Creek to do a four hour photo shoot. There’s almost a novel in that experience alone. Suffice to say that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: control, hongi, Maori, shiva rea, surrender, The Heart, trust, wanderlust

Top Ten Best Yoga Articles of 2015

December 28, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Donna Farhi

by Kara-Leah Grant I love checking the data and seeing which articles came up tops out of the 100+ that The Yoga Lunchbox published in 2015. After awhile, you start seeing the patterns. First are my personal articles which detail my breakdowns and breakthroughs on everything from men to my yoga practice to my relationship with teaching and money. People love these articles and respond with lots of comments and messages, and of course, views. Then there are the articles that I write … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: best yoga articles, donna farhi, Relationship, Shakti Mat, top yoga articles, wanderlust

My Private Yoga Session with Vincent Bolletta

November 13, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Ever since I interviewed Vincent Bolletta last year I've wanted to do a private yoga session with him. I knew from that interview that this was a man who knew his yoga inside out, on the energetic and physical level. Over the last few years, I've worked with a couple of teachers, both teaching in the Ashtanga lineage, Peter Sanson and Paul Scrivener. The problem is, I'm not an Ashtangi yogi and while I deeply respect the intelligence of the Ashtanga sequence, it's not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, Reviews Tagged With: Auckland yoga teacher, great yoga teacher, home practice, one-on-one yoga, private yoga, Vincent Bolletta

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