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 … [Read More...]
Latest & Freshest Articles
Is It Good to Go Deeper in a Yoga Pose?
by Lucinda Staniland For all the years I’ve been practicing yoga, I’ve always strived to ‘go deeper’ into the poses. In fact, I thought this was the point of asana. In the name of depth, I’ve pursued an ‘open heart’, and ‘release’ in the hips. Whatever the pose—lunges, backbends, twists—I’ve had … [Read More...]
Top Ten Best Yoga Articles of 2017
by Lucinda Staniland It's always fascinating to see which of the many articles we publish at The Yoga Lunchbox truly strike a chord with the online Yoga community.This year, personal, authentic stories about yoga and meditation in daily life proved to be as popular as ever.When guest author … [Read More...]
Latest Video Interviews
Ana Forrest & Jose Calarco on Bringing Mysticism, Magic & Indigenous Culture to 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 … [Read More...]
Leslie Kaminoff on Why Asanas Don’t Exist
by Lucinda Staniland Meet Leslie Kaminoff, a Yoga educator with forty years experience in the study of Yoga and the breath. Leslie studied with T.K.V Desikachar, a teacher renowned for his emphasis on the therapeutic aspects of yoga, and he is … [Read More...]
Sarsha & Sandi of Nadi 200 Hour Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training on the Incredible Intelligence of the Body
by Lucinda Staniland Sandi Murphy and Sarsha Hood are two passionate, intelligent and, most of all embodied women.These are characteristics that serve them well as co-leaders of the Nadi 200 Hour Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training, an immersive … [Read More...]
Starting
Be a Tree: Interpretive Yoga for Adults
It’s Autumn: trees are delighting us with a riot of colour, littering the ground with jewels from their branches.We can take a hint from Mother Nature and enjoy a similar process ourselves, letting go of old, stagnant, nonessentials.Releasing … [Read More...]
Donna Farhi on How to Find True Alignment in Your Yoga Practice
By Donna Farhi, Yoga teacher and author When I first began formal Yoga Teaching Training, yoga postures were taught as a series of check-lists, with a point-by-point focus on each and every body part.While this Simon-Says approach of monkey see, … [Read More...]
What does it mean to “breathe into it” in yoga?
by Kara-Leah Grant There's loads of phrases which yoga teachers toss around willy nilly that after time cease to have any real meaning.Phrases like:Surrender into the pose Let your heart open Find your centre Honour yourself Let … [Read More...]
Deepening • The Yoga of Life
Am I Endorsing Obesity by Telling Bigger- Bodied Yogis to Love Themselves?
By guest author Nityda Bhakti, The Yoga Wellness Space"I am so interested in trying yoga- I just need to wait until I lose this last fifteen pounds.""Yoga? Me?! Do you see my size? I could never lift myself off the ground like that!" I’ve heard comments like these for the past decade … [Read More...]
How yoga practitioners can integrate Ayurveda into their practice
by guest author David TimbsAyurveda means ‘knowledge of life’ and Yoga means ‘union’ or “a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.”From Dass Vishnu, Ayurveda and Yoga, Ancient Sister Sciences: Ayurveda and yoga are sister Vedic sciences that have been united … [Read More...]
Teaching • The Business of Yoga
Is New Zealand ready for a Wanderlust-style yoga and music festival?
by guest author Jonnie Halstead, Picnic Events Did you know there is a thriving ‘Yoga Festival’ scene in the United States?I didn’t and I‘ve been working the New Zealand festival circuit for over 15 years!In early 2011 I attended a lecture by a prominent modern-day yoga ‘guru’ who was … Read more
Mantra, Meditation & Reflection – The Yoga of Sound, An interview with Swami Muktimurti
Supplied by Anahata Yoga Retreat Centre It is that time of year again where we are about to enter a significantly beneficial astrological period.In India, these months are at a time of changing seasons, and it is a time set aside for practicing sadhana - a set period of intensified yoga … Read more
Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World
Why I almost gave up teaching yoga
After spending two weeks in LA fulfilling a dream and doing Prana Flow yoga teaching with Shiva Rea, I thought I'd come home all fired up to teach kick-arse yoga classes.Instead, getting out of my car on a dreary Monday evening in Dunedin to teach my one and only yoga class a week at The Dunedin … [Read More...]
On the Dilution of the Genuine Transmission of Yoga Part 2
by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I've been contemplating the many reactions I received to this article over the past week or so, On the Dilution of the Transmission of Yoga.One person unsubscribed from the website (or at least - one person told me they had because of this article, more … [Read More...]